- WEGE
Infobox Radio station
name = WEGE
city = Lima,Ohio
area =
branding = "The Eagle"
slogan =
airdate =
frequency = 104.9MHz
format =Classic rock
erp = 3,000watt s
haat = 67.0 meters
class = A
facility_id = 1061
coordinates = coord|40|43|21.00|N| 84|5|4.00|W|region:GB_type:city
callsign_meaning = EaGlE
former_callsigns = WUZZ
owner = Maverick Media of Lima License LLC
licensee =
sister_stations =WZOQ ,WFGF ,WWSR ,WDOH
webcast =
website = [http://1049theeagle.com 1049theeagle.com]
affiliations =WEGE (104.9 FM, "The Eagle") is a small market
radio station located inLima, Ohio , (pop. 40,000). It is a locally-owned station operated by Maverick Media. Its sister stationsWZOQ "ESPN 940,"WFGF -FM "Froggy 93,"WWSR -FM "Star 92.1" (licensed to Wapakoneta) andWDOH -FM in Delphos make up Maverick Media's family of stations in the Lima market.The station broadcasts a
classic rock format. Originally it was founded in the late 1960s as WLSR (for "Lima Stereo Radio") airing abeautiful music format, which later moved toadult contemporary . Its AM sister WCIT (for its founder, the now defunct Lima Citizen newspaper) airedTop 40 music in the 1960s and 70s, and later switching to adult standards, then oldies in the 1980s and news/talk in the 1990s before being sold by Riggs Broadcasting to Forever Broadcasting becoming Urban/R&B-formatted WLJM "940 JAMZ" in 1997 which later switched to sports/talk "ESPN 940" after the sale to Maverick Media in 2005. The WLJM calls were previously used on this frequency in 1996 before moving to 940 AM which is nowWZOQ . It was briefly known as adult contemporary WAJC from 1997 to 1999.On
April 19 ,2007 , the FCC approved a call sign change from WUZZ to WEGE. WEGE had been the call sign of a station inWesterville, Ohio , owned by North American Broadcasting in the Columbus market, prior to changing its call sign toWTDA in 2004. [http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=1061&Callsign=WEGE]External links
* [http://1049theeagle.com WEGE]
* [http://asx.abacast.com/wuzz-wuzz1049-32.asx Listen Live]
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