WFBC-FM

Infobox Radio Station
name = WFBC-B93.7FM


area = Greenville, South Carolina
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Anderson, South Carolina
Asheville, North Carolina
branding = B93.7
slogan = All The Hits!
airdate = March, 1947
frequency = 93.7 MHz
format = Contemporary Hit Radio
erp = 100 kW
class =
owner = Entercom
website = http://www.b937online.com | callsign_meaning = W First Baptist Church
We Foster Better Citizenship
(The second callsign meaning was taken from WFBC-TV)

The B is used in B93.7 branding

WFBC is a CHR station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina and serves the Upstate and Western North Carolina regions, including Greenville, Spartanburg, and Asheville, North Carolina. The Entercom Communications outlet is licensed by the FCC to broadcast at 93.7 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. The station goes by the name B93.7 and its current slogan is "All The Hits."

The station's transmitter is located on Caesar's Head mountain in South Carolina. The studios are located at 25 Garlington Road, Greenville, South Carolina 29615. WFBC has coverage in almost all of Upstate SC (includes the Piedmont & Foothills), parts of Northeast Georgia, and parts of Western NC. This station can be heard af far east as Charlotte, as far south as Irmo, as far north as Greeneville, Tennessee, and as far west as Gainesville, Georgia.

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Past Logos

(1996-2007)

History

WFBC-FM signed on in May 12, 1947 as a sister station to WFBC-AM, owned by The Roger Peace family who also owned the Greenville News/Piedmont. The programming was 90% simulcast for the first 8 to 10 years featuring block local programming and NBC Network programs. The early management team included people like: Bevo Whitmire, Ken Beechboard, R. A. Jolly and Bruce Buchanan. During the late 40's and early 50's, WFBC-FM featured the Esso Reporter each 30 minutes during the morning hours with Norvin Duncan as host. Other early morning shows; Housekeeping-a-hobby with Alice Wyman, Kitchen Klatter with Claude Freeman and The "Aristocratic Pigs" with Baby Ray. WFBC-FM's later morning shows featured "Shelley's Shenanigans" with Bob Shelley (1953-1956), Bob Poole and "Pooles Party Line" (1957- 1961). In 1962, Monty Dupuy became the long running host of the simulcast morning show which was one of the most popular shows in Greenville Radio History garnering more than 50% of the audience for more than 15 years. Dupuy was the morning host on WFBC-FM from 1962 to 1977. In 1965, WFBC-FM began independent programming of "light music" and "Music with McMasters" only simulcasting during the Dupuy morning show and special events. WFBC-FM started programming Drake Chenaults (Hit Parade) format in early 1971 becoming one of the most popular radio stations in the upstate. Past personalities during the 60's and 70's on WFBC-FM include: Norvin Duncan, Johnny Wright, Bob Poole, Bob Shelley, Monty Dupuy, Stowe Hoyle, Ben Greer, Bill Kregar, Verner Tate, Alice Wyman, Claude Freeman, Wilfred Walker, Billy Powell, Lee Kanipe, Max Mace, Jeff Fields, Ray Clune, Johnny Batson, Andy Scott, Ken Rogers, Dan Kelly, Jerry Haynes, Jim Burnside, Eston Johnson, Scott Shannon, Dale Gilbert, Dave Partridge, Jim Phillips, etc. WFBC-FM was an adult contemporary station during the 70's, 80s, and an oldies station in the early 1990s, with the name "Oldies 93.7". When the switch to the current format was made, the station stunted by having a disc jockey read the phone book. Someone called the station to complain about his name being mispronounced.Fact|date=June 2007 In April 1995, the station changed to a CHR format.

The call letters WFBC were taken from a station in Knoxville, Tennessee that had gone off the air in the early 1930's and reassigned to Greenville. Former WFBC program director (in 1937) Norvin Duncan said that W.F.B.C. stood for First Baptist Church.Three other stations in the Greenville market had used the WFBC call sign: The original AM station owned by the Peace family, owners of the "Greenville News" and "Greenville Piedmont", and broadcasting on 1330 kHz, now WYRD; television channel 4, signed on by the family in 1953, which used the calls until 1983 (when it became WYFF); and TV channel 40 in Anderson, which changed its calls to WFBC from WAXA after an ownership change. The WFBC call sign was used on channel 40 until 1999; it is now WMYA-TV.

Morning Show

The "Hawk and Tom Morning Show" is hosted by Hawk Harrison, Tom Steele, Heidi Aiken and Kato Keller. It features Torture Tuesday, The Second Date Update and Crank Calls with Thelma Holister, Cecil B. Holister and Mumbleman as primary characters. The Hawk and Tom Show has been broadcasting since April 13th of 1997, and for two years before that as the Hawk and Marty Show.

Hawk and Tom hosted the Breast Cancer Awareness event each year from 1997-2006 and helped to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. In 2008 they began hosting the Children's Miracle Network's Radiothon to raise money for the Greenville Hospital System's Children's Hospital.

Past Logos

(1996-2007)

Disc Jockeys

* The Hawk and Tom Show (mornings 5:30a-10:00a)
* Dino, Music Director (middays 10:00a-3:00p)
* Chase Murphy, Program Director (afternoons 3:00p-6:00p)
* "Just Joe" (evenings 6:00p-10:00p)
* Fenway (10:00p-2:00a)
* Hawk Harrison
* Tom Steele
* Heidi Aiken
* Kato Keller
* Porter
* Logan
* Ladonna
* Christopher B. Goode
* Bo
* Samantha De Maria

Management

* John Burkavage, VP/Market Manager
* Chase Murphy, Program Director

Former Staff

* Bender
* Nikki Nite
* Chris Lusk
* Chris Taylor
* Matt Lesley
* Marty McFly
* J Love
* "Smokin'" Joe Dawson
* Jeffrey "B" Mason
* Rob Wagman
* Kobe
* Pancho
* Some Guy Named Tias
* Skip Church
* Russ Cassell
* Lee Alexander
* Silas
* B-Luv
* BranDee
* Gabe
* Crystal Knight
* Nikki B
* Rad DJ Matt
* Natalie Randall

ee also

* [http://www.b937online.com B93.7's Website]
* [http://www.hawkandtom.com Hawk and Tom Website]
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