WBBG

WBBG
City	Niles, Ohio
Broadcast area	Youngstown, Ohio
Branding	106.1 The Bull
Slogan	Youngstown's #1 For New Country
Frequency	106.1 MHz
First air date	August 30, 2000 (at 106.1 MHz) June 1959 (at 93.3 MHz)
Format	Country music
ERP	3,000 watts
HAAT	100 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	73309
Callsign meaning	"W-B-BiG" former FM sister station to W B B W
Former callsigns	1987-2000: WNCD
Former frequencies	1959-2000: 93.3 MHz
Affiliations	Cleveland Cavaliers Radio Network Ohio State IMG Sports Network
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	WAKZ, WKBN, WMXY, WNCD, WNIO, W263CL
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1061thebullyoungstown.iheart.com

WBBG is a commercial FM radio station in Youngstown, Ohio market broadcasting at 106.1 MHz with a country music format. The station is licensed to Niles, Ohio, with programming as are fellow iHeartMedia, Inc. stations WWSW-FM in Pittsburgh and WMJI in Cleveland. WBBG is also a local affiliate for the Ohio State IMG Sports Network and the Cleveland Cavaliers of the (NBA).

The station first signed on the air as WNCD, licensed on October 29, 1987 (it signed back on May 15, 1988). It changed its call sign to WBBG on October 30, 2000, after the two stations swapped signals on August 30, 2000.

The WBBG call letters were used on a Cleveland AM station (at 1260-AM) from 1978 until 1987; the current WBBG picked them up on June 27, 1988, also as a reflection of its former AM sister station, WBBW 1240 kHz.

Programming

On weekday mornings, Jeff Kelly is heard from 6:00 am to 10:00 am.

Sister WMJI afternoon drive personality Don "Action" Jackson uses computerized voicetracking from WMJI's Cleveland area studios to cover the same shift on WBBG.

The music for each weekend has a theme. Classic American Top 40 shows from the 1970s with Casey Kasem are aired Saturday mornings at 6:00 and Sunday mornings at 8:00 (the 1980s version of same is aired on sister station WMXY). A special program, called the "Sunday Night Cruise" featuring Doo Wop hosted by Thomas John, airs Sunday evenings from 6:00 to 11:00 pm.

WBBG carries NASCAR during the racing season. Local high school sports such as football and basketball are also featured.

In January 2016, WBBG shifted their format to classic hits, branded as "Big 106".

On April 25, 2016 WBBG dropped classic hits and flipped to country as "106.1 The Bull".^[1]

References

↑ WBBG Flips to Country Radioinsight - April 26, 2016

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WBBG

Radio-Locator information on WBBG

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WBBG

Radio stations in the Youngstown-Niles-Warren, Ohio market

Note: This market also includes New Castle, Pennsylvania.

By AM frequency	570 600 790 830 940 1200 1240 1280 1330 1390 1440 1470 1490 1500 1540 1570

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 90.1 90.7 91.1 91.7 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.3 94.1 94.7 95.1 95.9 96.7 98.9 99.7 100.5 101.1 101.9 102.5 102.9 103.9 105.1 106.1 107.1 107.9

By callsign	WAKZ WASN WBBG WBBW WDJQ WGFT WGRP WHBC-FM WHKZ WHOT-FM WHTX WJST WKBN WKPL WKTL WKST WKTX WLLF WLOA WSHH WLVX WMXY WNCD WNIO WOHI WPIC WQXK WSAJ-FM WSOM WVMN WWGY WWIZ WWNW WYCL WYFM WYLR WYSU WYTN W234CH W263CL

Defunct stations	WSAJ/1340

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Country music radio stations in the state of Ohio

By frequency	770 790 910 1090 1130 1320 1320 1340 1500 1540 1560 1590 92.1 92.3 93.1 94.1 94.3 94.3 94.5 94.9 95.3 96.1 97.5 97.7 98.3 99.1 99.5 99.9 99.9 100.3 100.5 100.5 100.9 100.9 101.3 101.5 101.5 102.1 103.1 103.7 103.7 104.5 104.5 104.7 104.9 105.1 105.1 105.5 105.7 106.1 107.1 107.5 107.7 107.7

By callsign	WAIS WBBG WBCO WBGI-FM WBZI WCHO-FM WCJO WCKY-FM WCLI-FM WCLT-FM WCOL-FM WEDI WFGF WGAR-FM WHKO WHTH WIMT WIZE WKFI WKFM WKKJ WKKO WKKY WKLM WKNA WKXA-FM WLOH WLZZ WMJK WMRN-FM WNCO-FM WNNF WNTO WNUS WOBL WPFB WPFX-FM WQKT WQMX WQXK WRAC WSEO WSRW WTGR WTNS WTUZ WUBE-FM WWKC WXBW WXIZ WYBL WYDB WZOM WZVL

By city	Ashland Ashtabula Bellaire Belpre Buchtel Bucyrus Caldwell Chillicothe Cincinnati (WNNF) Cincinnati (WUBE-FM) Cleveland Clyde/Sandusky Columbus Coshocton Dayton Defiance Eaton Englewood/Dayton Enon/Dayton Findlay Fostoria Gallipolis Geneva Heath Hillsboro Huron/Sandusky Jackson Lancaster Lima Lima Logan Luckey/Toledo Marion Medina/Akron Middletown Millersburg Montpelier Nelsonville Newark Niles Oberlin Pemberville/Toledo Philo Racine Salem Springfield Toledo Uhrichsville Union City Waverly Washington Court House West Union Wilmington Wooster Xenia

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

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

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Coordinates: 41°15′50″N 80°45′36″W / 41.264°N 80.760°W / 41.264; -80.760

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