
WLBE-FM
106.7
Tavares
Original
Call Letters: WLBE
Originally
Licensed:
Original City of License: Leesburg
Power: 100,000
watts
Original Format: Religious
Owner(s):1975--WLBE
Radio, Inc. (H. James Sharp, President)
1976-General
Communicorps
-Southern
Starr Broadcasting Group Inc.
1989-Taylor
Communications ($12
million)
1993-Chancellor
Media/Shamrock Radio
1997-Shamrock
Radio/Chancellor Media
1997-HM2/Chancellor
2000-AMFM
Radio Licenses (Clear
Channel Communications)
2004-Capstar
(Clear
Channel Communications)
History
Of Call Letters and Formats: WLBE-195?-
WHLY-1969-Religious
''Where He Loves You''
WDGM-1969-Beautiful
Music
"We're
Delightfully Good Music"
WHLY-1978-Jazz
and
Pop
WHLY-
-Adult
Contemporary
"Y106"
WHLY-1984-Top
40 "The
Hot-Rockin Y-106"
WCAT-1987-Top
40
"Cool
Cat"
WHLY-1988-
WXXL-1990-CHR
"XL
106.7 Today's Hit Music"
WLBE
FM History
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 A/C, etc. are still in the back of the WLBE-AM
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."
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