WLEW-FM

WLEW-FM

City of license	Bad Axe, Michigan
Broadcast area
Branding	Cruise 102.1
Slogan	The Station That Rocks Your Docks and Shakes Your Lakes!; Your Classic Hits Station
Frequency	102.1 MHz
First air date	1956
Format	Classic Hits/Adult Contemporary mix
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	150 meters
Class	C2
Facility ID	67046
Affiliations	AP Radio
Owner	Thumb Broadcasting

WLEW-FM is a radio station in Bad Axe, Michigan, serving the Thumb area of Michigan. It is owned by Thumb Broadcasting and broadcasts from studios on South Van Dyke Road in Bad Axe. Unusual for small-town radio stations, WLEW-FM is locally programmed and does not rely on satellite feeds for any of their music programming. The station features a local roster of disc jockeys.

WLEW-FM, known as "Cruise 102.1" ("The Thumb's Power Station"), broadcasts at 102.1 MHz FM with 50,000 watts of power. The station's adult hits format is a combination of classic hits and adult contemporary titles from the 1960s through the present. WLEW-FM was formerly a 3,000-watt easy listening music station at 92.1 until it changed frequencies and boosted its power in the late 1980s (with WIDL in Caro, which had been at 104.9, taking the 92.1 frequency).

The station can be heard as far south as Lapeer and Flint, as far west as Midland, as far east as Goderich, Ontario, and as far north as Mio, and under the right conditions can be heard even farther north, even into the Upper Peninsula and Ontario's Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury Districts, though its area of strongest coverage includes most of Michigan's Thumb and extends across Saginaw Bay to the Tawas City area.

Sources

Michiguide.com - WLEW-FM History

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WLEW

Radio-Locator information on WLEW

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WLEW

Radio stations in the Thumb area of east-central Michigan

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 89.1 89.3 90.7 91.3 91.9 92.1 92.5 96.9 97.7 99.9 102.1 102.3 103.1 103.7 103.9 105.5 106.3 107.1

By AM frequency	660 1070 1230 1340 1360 1380 1450 1530 1590 1610

By callsign	CFGX CHOK CHKS W288BT WBGV WBTI WCZE WDTR WGRT WHLS WHLX WHYT WIDL WKYO WLCO WLEW WLEW-FM WMIC WMPC WNFA WNFR WORW WPHM WPLS727 WQUS WSAQ WSGR-FM WSMB WTGV-FM

Nearby radio markets Alpena–Tawas City Detroit Flint Lansing Midwestern Ontario North Central Michigan Tri-Cities Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia See also List of radio stations in Michigan Radio stations in Southwestern Ontario

Classic hits radio stations in Michigan

By frequency	92.5 92.7 92.9 93.5 94.3 96.7 97.3 97.7 98.3 98.5 98.7 100.3 101.5 102.1 104.3 106.3 107.3 107.5 107.9

By callsign	WCCW-FM WCZW WFCX WFDX WFGR WHMI-FM WLCS WLEW-FM WLMI WMJO WMJT WMJZ WMXG WOLV WOMC WUPF WUPS WUPT WYVN

By city	Atlanta Bad Axe Charlevoix Detroit Escanaba Gaylord Grand Ledge Grand Rapids Gwinn Harrison Houghton Howell Leland Manistee Newberry North Muskegon Saugatuck Saginaw/Essexville Stephenson Three Rivers Traverse City

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

Coordinates: 43°53′28″N 83°07′26″W / 43.891°N 83.124°W / 43.891; -83.124

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