WGEE (FM)

This article is about WGEE. For the AM radio station in Superior, Wisconsin, see WDUL.

WGEE

City	New London, Wisconsin
Broadcast area	Appleton, Oshkosh, and Green Bay, Wisconsin
Branding	93.5 & 99.7 Duke FM
Slogan	Playing the Legends of Country
Frequency	93.5 MHz
Translator(s)	93.1 W226BD (Green Bay)
Repeater(s)	99.7 WDKF (Sturgeon Bay)
First air date	1967 (as WLIH-FM)
Format	Classic Country
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	150 meters
Class	C2
Facility ID	42089
Callsign meaning	GrEEn Bay
Former callsigns	WLIH-FM (10/1957-7/1981) WNBK (7/1981-1/1989) WOZZ (1/1989-9/2010) WRQE (2010-2014) WGEE-FM (2014-2015)
Owner	Duey E. Wright (Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Sister stations	WDKF, WIXX, WNCY-FM, WNFL, WTAQ (AM/FM), WYDR
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	935dukefm.com

WGEE (93.5 FM) is "93.5 Duke FM," a classic country radio station owned and operated by Midwest Communications, licensed to New London, Wisconsin, and serving the Northeast Wisconsin area, including Appleton, Oshkosh, and Green Bay (the latter city aided by a repeater at 93.1 FM, W226BD), and is repeated on full-powered station WDKF (99.7 FM), which is licensed to Sturgeon Bay. WGEE's studios are located on Bellevue Street in Green Bay, while its main transmitter is located in Maine Township in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.

History

Former logo as WOZZ, c. 2008

Former location of WOZZ studios, c. 2006

The station was opened in 1957 as WLIH, with its studios and transmitter just southeast of New London. The call letters played off a Wisconsin tourism slogan at the time, We Like It Here. Those call letters are now used by a station in Whitneyville, Pennsylvania. In 1981, the station was bought by the owners of the New London National Bank (now part of Citizens Bank, who changed the call letters to WNBK. Under both owners, the station carried music, local news and local high school sports. Those call letters are now used by a repeater station in Whitmire, South Carolina.

In 1991, Midwest Communications purchased the station, changing the call sign to WOZZ. Under those calls, the station started out with an adult contemporary format (using branding and imaging that alluded to The Wizard of Oz) before moving to a long-running classic rock format in the early 1990s ("93.5 WOZZ, The Classic Rock Station") that featured songs from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. WOZZ previously had studios in the former Fidelity Bank building in Appleton until 2008, when Midwest Communications moved all its Green Bay and Appleton-area stations under one roof in new facilities in Bellevue, Wisconsin, a Green Bay suburb; however, to this day the station maintains a control room and sales office in Appleton to meet Federal Communications Commission requirements.

Classic rock would continue on WOZZ until the week of September 3, 2010; during that week, WOZZ ran an online stunt on Facebook under the user name "What Does It All Mean?" The profile page included short videos featuring WOZZ personality David Burns and painted rocks counting down days ("5 days," "4 days," etc.).^[1] Speculation was of a format flip to a mainstream rock format, which is what occurred at 5PM on September 3, after REO Speedwagon's "Time for Me to Fly" concluded; at that time, a brief audio montage (including the playing of "For Those About to Rock" by AC/DC) introduced "93 Rock", which promised a mix of classic rock music from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in a less-sedate on-air presentation. Sammy Hagar's "There's Only One Way to Rock" was the first song played on "93 Rock."^[2] With the format flip, the station adopted the WRQE call sign formerly found on its sister station at 99.7 FM (which adopted a classic hits format at the same time and day 93.5 FM adopted its new format). The Bob and Tom Show, a holdover from WOZZ, would continue to air during "93 Rock's" morning drive time (5-9AM). The "93 Rock" format had recently been adopted on Midwest Communication-owned sister stations in Duluth (on KDAL-FM) and Wausau (on WOZZ, the call sign was transferred from WRQE's previous classic rock format to the Wausau station at the time of the flip).

By the summer of 2011, "93 Rock" tweaked to a full blown mainstream rock format playing a mix of classic rock and rock from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, to current active rock music.

On September 8, 2014, Midwest Communications announced that the “93 Rock” format on WRQE and W226BD would end on September 11, following a farewell event on that date. The last song on "93 Rock" was "You Never Met a Motherf***er Quite Like Me" by Kid Rock. On September 12, at Midnight, both 93.5 and 93.1 flipped to a classic country format, branded as "93.5 Duke FM," that compliments Midwest's contemporary country-formatted WNCY-FM. ("Duke FM" is a reference to Midwest Communications President/CEO Duke Wright, and was first applied by Midwest to a Terre Haute station that converted to classic country earlier in 2014.) The first song on "93.5 Duke FM" was "Baby Likes to Rock It" by The Tractors.^[3] To coincide with the format change, the call sign at 93.5 changed to WGEE-FM, resurrecting classic calls used twice before on Midwest-owned country stations in Green Bay, originally at 1360 AM (the current WTAQ) and during the mid-1990s at 99.7 FM (the current WDKF).^[4] (The "-FM" suffix of the call sign was dropped on March 23, 2015.)

References

External links

93.5 Duke FM website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WGEE

Radio-Locator information on WGEE

Radio stations serving Green Bay and Northeastern Wisconsin

(see also: Appleton-Oshkosh)

by FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.3 89.7 90.1 90.5 91.3 91.5 92.7 93.1 93.5 94.3 94.7 95.9 96.9 97.5 98.5 99.7 100.3 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.7 103.1 103.5 104.3 104.9 105.7 106.3 106.7 107.5

by AM frequency	980 1050 1150 1280 1360 1400 1440 1530 1590

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

by callsign	KIG65 W209BM W226BD W270AJ WAPL WAUN WCUB WDKF WDUZ WDUZ-FM WEMY WGBW WGEE WHBY WHID WIXX WJOK WKRU WKSZ WKZG WLAK WNAM WNCY-FM WNFL WOGB WORQ WPCK WPFF WPNE WPVM WQLH WRMW WRVM WTAQ WTAQ-FM WYDR WZOR

Nearby radio markets Fox Cities Milwaukee–Racine Sheboygan–Manitowoc Wausau–Stevens Point Door County Iron Mountain See also List of radio stations in Wisconsin

Radio stations in the Appleton–Oshkosh, Wisconsin market (Fox Cities)

(sub-market of Green Bay)

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.3 89.9 90.1 90.3 91.1 91.7 91.9 92.9 93.5 94.3 95.3 95.9 96.9 97.7 98.5 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.7 102.1 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.7 107.1 107.5 107.7

By AM frequency	620 690 980 1050 1150 1170 1280 1360 1400 1450 1490 1530 1570

By callsign	KFIZ W204BK W237AA W269CJ W271AC W299BW WAPL WBJZ WCUB WDKV WDUZ WDUZ-FM WEMI WFDL WFDL-FM WFON WGEE WHBY WHID WIXX WJOK WKSZ WKZG WKZY WLAK WNAM WNCY-FM WORQ WOSH WOVM WPKR WPNE WQLH WRST-FM WSCO WTAQ WTMJ WVBO WVCY WVFL WWWX WYDR

Nearby radio markets Green Bay Madison Milwaukee–Racine Sheboygan–Manitowoc Wausau–Stevens Point Wisconsin Dells–Baraboo See also List of radio stations in Wisconsin

Country radio stations in the state of Wisconsin

By call letters	KDWZ - Superior/Duluth MN WACD – Antigo WAQE – Rice Lake WATQ – Chetek WAXX – Eau Claire WBFM – Sheboygan WBKY – Portage WBSZ – Ashland WCOW-FM – Sparta WCQM – Park Falls WCUB – Two Rivers WCYE – Three Lakes WDDC – Portage WDEZ – Wausau WDKF – Sturgeon Bay WDLS – Wisconsin Dells WDMP – Dodgeville WDMO – Baldwin WDMP-FM – Dodgeville WDUX – Waupaca WEKZ – Monroe WFON - Fond du Lac WGEE – New London WGLR-FM – Lancaster WHDG – Rhinelander WHIT – Madison WHSM-FM - Hayward WHTL-FM – Whitehall WISS – Berlin WIXK – New Richmond WJMC-FM – Rice Lake WJMQ – Clintonville WJMT – Merrill WJVL – Janesville WKQH – Marathon WKTI – Milwaukee WLTU - Manitowoc WMAD – Sauk City WMBZ – West Bend WMIL-FM – Waukesha WNCY-FM – Neenah-Menasha WNFM – Reedsburg WNRG-FM – Brookfield WOBT – Rhinelander WOCO – Oconto WOKY – Milwaukee WPCK – Denmark WPKR – Omro WPLT – Spooner WQCC – La Crosse WQPC – Prairie du Chien WQRB – Bloomer WRCO-FM - Richland Center WRDN – Durand WRJC – Mauston WRLU – Algoma WSLD – Whitewater WTCH – Shawano WTMB – Tomah WVRE – Dickeyville WVRQ-FM – Viroqua WWQM-FM – Middleton WXRO – Beaver Dam WYTE – Marshfield

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Wisconsin

Midwest Communications

Indiana	Evansville WABX WIKY-FM WLFW WSTO Terre Haute WBOW WDKE WDWQ WIBQ WMGI WPRS

Michigan	Battle Creek WNWN-FM WTOU Coldwater WTVB Holland WHTC WYVN Kalamazoo WKZO WNWN WQLR WVFM WZOX Lansing WJXQ WLMI WQTX WWDK

Minnesota	Duluth KDAL KDAL-FM KDWZ KTCO WDSM WDUL Hibbing KMFG WMFG WMFG-FM WNMT WTBX WUSZ

North Dakota	Fargo KFGO KMJO KOYY KRWK KVOX KVOX-FM

South Dakota	Sioux Falls KELO KELO-FM KELQ KQSF KRRO KTWB KWSN

Tennessee	Knoxville WDKW WIMZ-FM WJXB-FM Nashville WCJK WJXA

Wisconsin	Appleton WGEE WYDR Green Bay WDKF WIXX WNCY-FM WNFL WTAQ/WTAQ-FM Wausau WDEZ WIFC WOZZ WRIG WSAU WSAU-FM Sheboygan WBFM WHBL WHBZ WXER

Website mwcradio.com

Coordinates: 44°32′46″N 88°32′56″W / 44.546°N 88.549°W / 44.546; -88.549

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