WWCD

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For information on the Baltimore/Columbus area 102.5 MHz FCC-licensed broadcast facility prior to July 1, 2010 (i.e., before carrying the callsigns WCVZ and WWCD, and operating with a Zanesville city of license prior to October 2009), see article WHIZ-FM.

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For information on the Grove City/Columbus area 101.1 MHz FCC-licensed broadcast facility since December 15, 2001 (i.e., after carrying the callsign WWCD), see article WOSA.


WWCD
CD102.5 logo.png
City of license Baltimore, Ohio
Broadcast area Columbus metro area
Branding CD102.5
Slogan The Alternative Station
Frequency 102.5 MHz
First air date 1961 (102.5 MHz frequency)
Format Modern rock
ERP 15,000 watts
HAAT 130 meters
Class B1
Facility ID 61230
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Callsign meaning "W-W-Compact Disc"
"W-W-"CD 101" (heritage branding)
Former callsigns 2010: WCVZ (8 days only)
1990-2010: WWCD
Former frequencies 1990-2010: 101.1 MHz
Affiliations Columbus Blue Jackets (secondary)[1]
Owner WHIZ Media Group
(Local marketing agreement with Fun With Radio, LLC[2][3] -- soon to be WWCD Ltd.)
Webcast Listen Live
Suspended stream notice
Website CD1025.com[4]

WWCD (102.5 FM), currently branded CD102.5,[5] is a commercial modern rock radio station licensed to Baltimore, Ohio and serving the Columbus metro area.

The station originally operated on the 101.1 MHz facility licensed to Grove City - hence the original "CD101" branding - from August 21, 1990 until June 30, 2010. From July 1, 2010 until December 13, 2010, WWCD simulcast on both the 101.1 and 102.5 facilities while a three-way ownership transaction between WWCD's owner, "Fun With Radio, LLC," WOSU Public Media, and the WHIZ Radio Group was being completed.[2][4][6][7] Since December 13, 2010, WWCD has broadcast exclusively at the 102.5 MHz facility.[8]

Along with WBWR, WLVQ and WRKZ, WWCD is one of four rock stations serving the Columbus radio market.

History

WWCD began broadcasting on August 21, 1990. The first song played on the station was "Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, (Petrol)" by the Dublin, Ireland band Something Happens. The station is owned by Fun With Radio, LLC whose founder, Roger Vaughan, purchased the station from Video Services in 1992. WWCD has always been owned by interests in metro Columbus, and is one of the few remaining independent radio stations in the U.S. playing alternative rock.

WWCD also lays claim to being one of the first stations in the United States to be simulcast and on Internet radio. In a March 2006 Radio & Records list of the top 20 alternative rock radio stations in the United States, WWCD was ranked #4 in the country and #1 east of the Mississippi River.

WWCD's longtime program director throughout the late 1990s and 2000s was afternoon DJ Andy "Andyman" Davis. With the station almost since its inception, Davis previously served as the station's music director. Davis died of a suspected heart attack while on vacation in Michigan with his family on July 18, 2010.[9][10][11] The annual "Andyman-a-Thon" also continues in his name[12]

Personalities

WWCD's DJ lineup includes Krista Kae in the mornings, Brian Phillips middays, Lesley James in the evening and Tom Butler at night. Rachael, Craig, DJ Nate, and Glenna are on weekends.

WWCD is also the home of many specialty shows, including Sunday evening shows Island Riddims, the Invisible Hits Hour and the award-winning Independent Playground hosted by Tom Butler (with an encore on Thursday evenings).

Former WWCD DJs include the aforementioned Davis, who helmed the afternoon shift from 1991 until his death, and Fritz the Nite Owl, who also once hosted one of the last late night movie television programs locally produced in the United States. Fritz's show was broadcast on WCLL-CA, television channel 19, in Columbus.

In the month of May, WWCD has a feature called "Guest DJ Everyday" where anyone has the chance of being a guest DJ for an hour on air. A compilation of 12-15 songs is put together by the guest DJ, and they can play them during this hour. The feature proved to be so successful that it has since been expanded to every Friday afternoon, all year long.[13]

Philanthropy

A program called "CD101 for the Kids" was established as a way to contribute to local charities around Columbus. Its most successful event is the annual "Andyman-a-Thon." Created by Andy "Andyman" Davis in 1992, Davis would host the 48 hour-long marathon by himself on the weekend before Christmas. (It also provided the rest of the staff a holiday break to spend time with family.) The event raises money to go toward charities including the Children's Hospital, Family and Child Advocacy, Homeless Families Foundation and the Childhood League. Listeners can call in a song request with a donation, and a live auction also occurs with donated items from advertisers and record companies. All proceeds go to these charities.[11]

After Davis' death in July 2010, WWCD announced that the "Andyman-a-Thon" would continue with various staffers in his honor.[12]

Sports

WWCD was the original FM flagship station of the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL hockey team in tandem with WBNS. Starting with the 2010 NHL season, the team's primary radio rights were moved with WBNS-FM, which now operates as a direct simulcast of WBNS. WWCD still broadcasts selected games in the event of any scheduling conflicts on WBNS and WBNS-FM due to overlapping Ohio State Buckeyes football or basketball play-by-play.[1]

History of the 102.5 frequency

The 102.5 MHz frequency was originally licensed to Zanesville, Ohio and signed on as the original home to WHIZ-FM in 1961. Under the ownership of the Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting System, Inc.'s WHIZ Media Group, WHIZ-FM programmed an adult contemporary format long identified as "Z102".

The WHIZ Media Group was granted authority to change WHIZ-FM's city of license from Zanesville to Baltimore, Ohio in the fall of 2005, and a construction permit to build a new transmitter site was granted in October 2008. On October 17, 2008, the WHIZ Media Group purchased WCVZ FM 92.7 (from which those call letters stood for the Christian Voice of Zanesville) as the new frequency for WHIZ-FM.[14] Both WCVZ and WHIZ-FM simulcast programming as "Z102 and 92.7" until December 7, 2008, when WCVZ assumed WHIZ-FM's identity as "Z92.7," and WHIZ-FM became "Highway 102," featuring an automated country music format.

The "Highway 102" format continued on the 102.5 MHz frequency even after the station completed their relocation to Baltimore on October 1, 2008, and assumed the WCVZ call letters, while the 92.7 MHz frequency became WHIZ-FM.[15] What was now WCVZ effectively ended any connection to the Zanesville region and consequently entered the Columbus market. As a result of this move-in as "Highway 102," the station became one of four Country music radio outlets in Columbus - WHOK-FM, WCOL-FM and WNKK being the other stations.

2010 Frequency shift

CD101 logo

The Ohio State University announced their $4.8 million purchase of the 101.1 MHz frequency from Fun With Radio, LLC - WWCD's ownership - on June 30, 2010. At the same time, Fun With Radio entered into an local marketing agreement with the WHIZ Media Group[3] to take over programming on the 102.5 MHz frequency immediately,[2][16][17] with a future option for purchase.

Ohio State's plans for the 101.1 MHz frequency were to switch format to a full-time classical music format as an extension of WOSU-FM, while WOSU-FM would drop all music-related programming and become an NPR news/talk station in a simulcast of sister station WOSU-AM 820.[4] Consequently, WCVZ would become the new home for "CD101," and while the sale of the 101.1 MHz facility awaited approval from the FCC, WWCD broadcast over both the 101.1 and 102.5 MHz facilities,[2][18] with the "CD101" name being slightly modified to "CD101 @ 102.5".

On December 13, 2010, the simulcast ended between WWCD and WCVZ, with the 101.1 MHz facility airing a recorded loop instructing listeners to tune to the 102.5 MHz facility.[citation needed] The sale of the 101.1 MHz facility to Ohio State was completed that December 14, and the classical music format—under the WOSA calls—was launched the next morning at 6:00 a.m.[8]

As had been planned with the initial deal,[2][6] the WWCD call letters were relocated to the 102.5 facility,[19] meaning that "CD101 @ 102.5" was able to retain their original calls. It remains unclear, however, whether the station will update the anachronistic "CD101" brand to "CD102.5" to reflect the new frequency. Although the station continues to use "CD101" over the air, online and in print,[20] terms of the sale with Ohio State University clearly dictated that WWCD must cease any and all on-air mentions of "101" or "101.1" when the deal closed on December 14.[3][21]

Several days before the initial sale with WOSU-FM was announced,[4] Fun With Radio, LLC registered the domain names CD101at1025.com and CD1025.com, which have since acted as redirectors to the current CD101.com website.

In November 2011, amid weeks of speculation that Salem Communications was negotiating to either purchase or lease the 102.5 FM frequency as a new location for the programming of WRFD,[22] WWCD general manager Randy Malloy formed a new company, WWCD Ltd., to purchase the intellectual property of CD101 from Roger Vaughn’s Fun With Radio, LLC. Vaughn will retain a minority share of the new company, though all references to Fun With Radio would be removed from any station documents and promotion. The new ownership group immediately began negotiating a new lease agreement with Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting, owner of the frequency.[23]

References

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Preceded by
First
 FM 101.1 MHz in Grove City, Ohio
August 21, 1990-December 13, 2010		 Succeeded by
WOSA
Preceded by FM 102.5 MHz in Baltimore, Ohio
December 13, 2010-Present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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