WFUS

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WFUS

City	Gulfport, Florida
Broadcast area	Tampa Bay Area
Branding	US 103.5
Slogan	Tampa Bay's New Country Leader! and Your Home for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers!
Frequency	103.5 MHz
Translator(s)	100.3 W262CP (Bayonet Point, relays HD2)
First air date	September 1963 (as WBRD-FM at 103.3)
Format	Country HD2: Tropical/Latin pop "Rumba 106.5"
ERP	68,000 watts
HAAT	472 meters
Class	C0
Facility ID	63984
Callsign meaning	Florida's US 103.5
Former callsigns	(applies only for the 103.3 and 103.5 frequencies) WBRD-FM (1963-1973) WDUV (1973-3/24/1999) WTBT (3/24/1999-4/22/2005)
Former frequencies	103.3 MHz (1963-1997)
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	WBTP, WDAE, WFLA, WFLZ, WHNZ, WMTX, WXTB
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	us1035.com

WFUS (103.5 FM, "US 103.5") is a country music radio station in Tampa, Florida. It has been the flagship station of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers since 2004. Licensed to Gulfport, Florida, the station's studios are located in South Tampa and the transmitter site is in Riverview.

WFUS is one of the eight stations in the Tampa Bay market owned by iHeartMedia, Inc..

The station formerly went by "Thunder 103.5" as a classic rock station dating back to the mid-1990s. Ron Diaz worked as the morning drive host at that time. Towards the end of the station's days, it was the Tampa affiliate for The Bob and Tom Show. On April 13, 2005, WTBT flipped to its current country format as WFUS, "US 103.5", leaving Cox Radio's WHPT as the market's only classic rock station at that time.^[1] Clear Channel later relaunched the classic rock format as "Thunder Across The Bay", currently operating on low power FM translators at 94.5 FM (Gulfport), 99.1 FM (Holiday), 105.9 FM (Tampa), and on WMTX-HD2.

In August of 2014, its HD2 subchannel's format changed to Soft EZ Oldies, a format meant to compete with market leader WDUV. Prior to that, the HD2 subchannel was classic rock, branded as "Thunder 103.5 HD2".

In September 2014, WFUS-HD2 flipped once again, as Alternative/New Rock formatted "ALT 99-9", meant to compete with Cox Radio's WSUN. "ALT" was also broadcast on low power FM translator W207BU at 99.9 MHz, located in Bayonet Point. On November 7, 2014, at Noon, W207BU moved from 99.9 MHz to 100.3 MHz to eliminate interference with WXJB in Brooksville. The station then re-branded as "ALT 100.3". The translator also changed call letters, and is now identifying as W262CP. On March 14, 2016, the "ALT" format was replaced with a rebroadcast of iHeart's Sarasota-based Tropical/Latin pop-formatted WRUB-FM "Rumba 106.5".

References

↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2005/RR-2005-04-22.pdf

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WFUS

Radio-Locator information on WFUS

Radio stations in the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater, Florida market

By AM frequency	570 620 680 760 820 860 910 970 1010 1040 1110 1150 1250 1300 1340 1350 1380 1400 1450 1470 1500 1520 1550 1590 1620

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.7 90.5 91.1 91.5 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.5 103.5 104.7 105.5 106.3 107.3

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.450 162.550

By callsign	KEC38 KHB32 WAMA WBTP WBRN-FM WBVM WCIE WDAE WDCF WDUV WFLA WFLZ WFUS WGES WGHR WGUL WHBO WHFS WHNZ WHPT WKES WLCC WLLD WMGG WMNF WMTX WPOI WPSO WQBN WQYK-FM WRBQ-FM WRXB WSUN-FM WTAN WTBN WTWD WTIS WTMP WTMP-FM WUSF WWBA WWJB WWMI WWRM WXGL WXJB WXTB WXYB WYFE WYUU WZHR WZPH-LP (Bulls Radio)

Defunct	WFTI-FM (91.7 FM)

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 228 Sirius Channel 158 Florida radio markets Daytona Beach Fort Myers–Naples–Marco Island Ft. Pierce–Stuart–Vero Beach Ft. Walton Beach Gainesville–Ocala Jacksonville Lakeland-Winter Haven Melbourne–Titusville–Cocoa Miami–Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Panama City Pensacola Sarasota–Bradenton Tallahassee Tampa–St.Petersburg–Clearwater West Palm Beach–Boca Raton Other Florida radio regions Florida Keys Lake City Sebring See also List of radio stations in Florida

Country radio stations in the state of Florida

By callsign:	WAAZ-FM WAKX WAVW WCKT WCNK WCTH WCTQ WDSR WDVH-FM WEAG-FM WFDZ WFUS WGNE-FM WHKR WHWY WIKX WIMR-LP WIRK WIYD WJAQ WJSB WKIS WKNK WKRO-FM WMAF WMYR WOGK WOKC WOTW WPAP WPCV WPHR-FM WQHL-FM WQIK-FM WQLC WQYK-FM WRUF-FM WTNT-FM WTOT-FM WTRS WTYS WWGR WWKA WWOF WWOJ WXBM-FM WYCT WYZB WZZS

By frequency:	1050 1230 1260 1340 1340 1410 1480 1570 1660 92.1 92.3 92.5 92.7 92.9 93.1 93.5 93.7 94.7 94.9 96.5 97.5 98.1 98.1 98.7 98.7 98.7 99.1 99.1 99.5 99.9 99.9 100.3 100.9 101.7 101.7 101.9 102.1 102.3 102.7 102.7 103.1 103.1 103.1 103.5 103.5 103.7 104.7 105.5 106.3 106.9 107.1

By community of license:	Avon Park Boca Raton Callaway Charlotte Harbor Crestview Crestview Dunnellon Fort Myers Fort Myers Gainesville Gifford Graceville Gulfport Holt Indiantown Jacksonville Key West Lake City Lehigh Acres Live Oak Madison Marianna Marianna Mary Esther McIntosh Middleburg Milton Ocala Okeechobee Orlando Palatka Palm Coast Panama City Pensacola Perry Plantation Key Port Orange Rockledge Starke Stuart Tallahassee Tallahassee Tampa Trenton Venice Watertown Windermere Winter Haven Zolfo Springs

Defunct:	WEAG/1490: Starke

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

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

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

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia

Radio networks	Fox Sports Radio Premiere Networks Premium Choice Total Traffic and Weather Network

Miscellaneous	Clear Channel Outdoor Clear Channel UK iHeartRadio List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia Mediabase Radio Computing Services

Coordinates: 27°49′12″N 82°15′40″W / 27.820°N 82.261°W / 27.820; -82.261

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