Original Call Letters: WLBE 

Originally Licensed: Feb 12, 1969  

Original City of License: Leesburg  

Original Frequency: 106.7

Origin of Call Letters:  

Original Power: 50,000 watts

Original Location: 32900 Radio Rd.  

Network Affiliations:

WHLY  History
WHLY began life as  WLBE-FM 106.7. Bob Andrews fills us in on some of the history of WLBE-FM 106.7. 
"In the late fifties, WLBE-AM 790, under the ownership of a wealthy road contractor, (father in law of Jim Sharp) applied for and got the 106.7 license and was actually on the air-the space for FM transmitter and wiring for Air conditioning, etc are still in the back of the WLBE-AM 790 studios. The station was bought by a couple of preachers, who saw no value in the FM, just the value of  the resale of  it to keep going, and Lake County lost its second FM station to Orlando. The first was 107.7, licensed to Mount Dora. I don't recall the ownership, but it went to WORJ-FM 107.7, Orlando. The company kept an office and a man in Mount Dora for some time to satisfy FCC rules. That is why 107.7 and 106.7 still identify with Lake County locations every hour. The first incarnation for the calls WHLY (took place in 1969), which stood for Where He Loves You. The station broadcast religious programming. Then the call letters WHLY would return in 1978 and then again in 1988.

Jim Steel-(now Corporate VP of programming for Emmis Broadcasting)  

    Y106 studio pix courtesy of Jaime Lerner

Roger Stallard-Afternoons Biography

Greg Fox