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The station was originally WEAU on 1050 kHz, switching to 790 in 1941. [2] The call sign was switched to WEAQ upon a 1959 ownership change. [3] Eventually, the station moved to Tower Drive on the northeast side of Eau Claire, playing pop music with occasional format switches to country, rock, adult contemporary and standards.
WAXX, WAYY and new sister stations WIAL-FM, WEAQ, WECL-FM & WDRK-FM were sold to Maverick Media, LLC in 2003. WAXX was the first radio station in the Eau Claire market to broadcast live 24 hours a day on the Internet, beginning March 31, 2006.
Cosmos then traded WEAU back to Gray in exchange for WALB (Gray's original flagship station) in Albany, Georgia (that station returned to Gray in 2019 after WALB's last owner Raycom merged with Gray). Technology was the highlight of the following decade as WEAU-DT, which originally transmitted on channel 39, signed-on April 30, 2002, with the ...
The FCC "History Cards" were collections of 5-by-8-inch (13 by 20 cm) index cards, maintained for each AM, FM and TV broadcasting station. They were introduced in early 1927, at the time of the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), and were taken over by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after its formation in 1934.
The five stations, along with the "then" new sister station WDRK-FM, were sold to Maverick Media, LLC, in 2003. In 2013, Mid-West Family Broadcasting Inc re-purchased WIAL (along with WEAQ-AM). WIAL switched to a Hot Adult Contemporary format in March 2003, and unveiled its current logo soon after.
WAYY, WAXX, WEAQ, and sister stations WIAL, WECL & WDRK were sold to Maverick Media, LLC in 2003. WAYY and its Eau Claire sister stations, along with Maverick Media's Rockford, Illinois stations, were sold to Mid-West Family Broadcasting for $15.5 million. The purchase of the Eau Claire stations was consummated on October 1, 2013, while the ...
The station also moved from the near the Menards Shopping Center on the northwest side of Eau Claire to Tower Drive on the northeast side. The station slogan was later changed to "Cool 92.9" WECL, WIAL and WEAQ were sold to Central Communications (consisting of WAXX and WAYY ) in 1996, and moved into the Central studios in Altoona, Wisconsin .
This added 11 stations starting May 1, 2013 with an LMA. [clarification needed] [1] On November 2, 2015, Gray Television agreed to sell the WSBT radio group to Mid-West Family when the deal to acquire the television and radio assets of Schurz Communications closed. This added four stations in the Michiana area to Mid-West's lineup. [2]