WBOX-FM

Last updated
WBOX-FM
Frequency 92.9 MHz
Programming
Format Country
Ownership
OwnerBest Country Broadcasting, LLC
WBOX
History
First air date
November 1985
Technical information
Facility ID 6316
Class A
ERP 3,000 watts
HAAT 98 meters
Transmitter coordinates
 30°50′27.6″N89°50′6″W / 30.841000°N 89.83500°W / 30.841000; -89.83500

WBOX-FM is a radio station broadcasting on 92.9 FM in Varnado, Louisiana. The station is owned by Best Country Broadcasting, LLC, and carries a country format. The station is co-owned with WBOX 920 in Bogalusa.

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WBOX-FM is an affiliate of the LSU Sports Radio Network and carries LSU football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball games. [1]

History

WBOX-FM signed on the air in November 1985. [2] While a sister to WBOX 920 AM, the two stations initially carried different formats, with 920 airing country music and 92.7 adopting an adult contemporary sound. [2]

WBOX-AM-FM was sold to Bogue Chitto Communications for $325,000 in 1988; the sale made the pair sisters to four radio stations in Mississippi. [3] Both stations changed to contemporary country formats. [4] The station was required to move to 92.9 from 92.7 as a result of an upgrade proposal for station WQCK licensed to Clinton, Louisiana (now WBKL). [5]

Best Country Broadcasting, owned by Ben Strickland, acquired WBOX-AM-FM for $150,000 in 2002. [6]

On October 26, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission issued an Order to Pay or to Show Cause for WBOX-AM-FM to pay delinquent regulatory fees totaling just over $21,000 covering fiscal years 2002, 2012 through 2019, and 2022. Best Country was given sixty days to pay the past due fees or show cause why "these regulatory fees are inapplicable or should otherwise be waived or deferred." The Notice officially constitutes the initiation of a proceeding to revoke the licenses if Best Country fails to respond. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "LSU Sports Radio Network Affiliates". LSUsports.net. September 9, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "WBOX(AM)" (PDF). 1986 Broadcasting Yearbook. 1986. p. B-120. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting. August 8, 1988. pp. 39–40. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ "WBOX(AM), WBOX-FM" (PDF). 1991 Broadcasting Yearbook. 1991. pp. B-139, B-145. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ FCC MB Docket 89-392 Summary
  6. ↑ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. March 25, 2002. p. 22. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Order to Pay or Show Cause" (PDF). Retrieved October 26, 2023.
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