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City | Lima, Ohio |
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Broadcast area | Lima, Ohio |
Frequency | 93.1 MHz |
Branding | 93.1 The Fan |
Programming | |
Format | Sports |
Affiliations | Cleveland Browns Radio Network Cleveland Cavaliers Radio Network Cleveland Indians Radio Network ESPN Radio |
Ownership | |
Owner | Woof Boom Radio (Woof Boom Radio of Lima LLC) |
WCIT, WDOH, WEGE, WFGF | |
History | |
First air date | 1993 (as WYRX) |
Former call signs | WYRX (1993-1998) WFRY (1998) WFGF (1998-2009) |
Call sign meaning | WWSports Radio |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 74294 |
Class | A |
ERP | 3,000 watts |
HAAT | 97 meters |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | 931TheFan.com |
WWSR (93.1 FM, "93.1 The Fan") is a commercial radio station in Lima, Ohio, broadcasting a sports format.
WWSR (previously WFGF) was founded in August 1985 as WYRX "93 Rocks"(later 93-X and briefly as WFRY) which would become a sister station to WZOQ at first with an album-oriented rock format and transmits with 3,000 watts E.R.P. Its studios were shared with WZOQ in a building which previously housed a KFC restaurant on Cable Road in Lima. Its transmitter is located on Baty Rd. When Forever Broadcasting purchased the former WCIT-AM and WLSR-FM, the studios were moved up the street into the location of the AM/FM combo now known respectively as the resurrected WCIT (AM) with an oldies format and classic rock WEGE-FM. The call letter and format switch to WFGF "Froggy 93" took place in March 1998. Although, Froggy did make a brief country format appearance in 1993 and changed back to the rock format, 93-X. Froggy 93 continued its local country music following in Lima.
The WFGF callsign and country format was moved to 92.1 in May 2009 as the new branding "92.1 The Frog."
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Effective July 1, 2013, WWSR and its sister stations were sold by Maverick Media LLC to a local company, Childers Media Group LLC, at a price of $2.1 million; its studios and offices were moved to new facilities located at 57 Town Square in downtown Lima. In 2017, Childers Media was purchased by former Maverick Media LLC General Manager J. Chapman and Woof Boom Radio which is based in Muncie Indiana with clusters in Muncie, Anderson and Lafayette.
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