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WWWM-FM 105.5 FM is an American radio station licensed to Sylvania, Ohio and broadcasting as part of the Toledo market.

The 105.5 MHz spot on the radio dial in the Toledo area began in the late 1960s as WGLN, located in a cornfield in western Lucas County, the remote studio-transmitter location was the home of the "Jones Boys", a concept introduced for the first time in Toledo by station manager and native Toledoan Michael Drew Shaw. Like WTRX AM in Flint, Michigan where Shaw had been program director several years before being named man... See more

Sylvania FM|105.5
419-240-1055
3225 Arlington Ave.Toledo, Ohio 43614
WWWM-FM 105.5 FM is an American radio station licensed to Sylvania, Ohio and broadcasting as part of the Toledo market.

The 105.5 MHz spot on the radio dial in the Toledo area began in the late 1960s as WGLN, located in a cornfield in western Lucas County, the remote studio-transmitter location was the home of the "Jones Boys", a concept introduced for the first time in Toledo by station manager and native Toledoan Michael Drew Shaw. Like WTRX AM in Flint, Michigan where Shaw had been program director several years before being named manager at WGLN, every DJ used the last name Jones. Among the more notable, Davy Jones, Casey Jones, Tom Jones, and John Paul Jones. More notable D.Js' sporting the name JONES were Joe Hood, Rick Wright, Earl Sharninghouse, and Klaus Helfers, The station featured country music and broadcast live performances.

Later the format shifted to oldies ("Golden 105") and then album-oriented rock in 1971. It was Toledo's first so-called underground FM station playing the songs and deep album cuts that no one else in the market was playing at the time. Many of the these DJs later became the backbone of the staff at WIOT. The station, however, was later sold in 1972 to Midwest Broadcasting and by spring of that year, 105.5 FM became a beautiful music station with the callsign of WXEZ. It was still located in its tiny studio in the rural cornfield setting at its transmitter site in Berkey, Ohio. It later was move into the newly remodeled garage at the Pickle Road studios of WOHO. By the late 70s it had transformed into an automated "Z-Rock" (current hot hits, no relation to Satellite Music Network's later satellite-delivered format of heavy metal music also called "Z-Rock") station known as "Z-105".

In 1979/1980 the station had a simulcast of big-sister station WOHO 1470 AM for morning drive time as well as for weekend broadcasts of "American Top 40". In 1980 the station went on its own with live local on-air talent. As the format changed from rock to oldies to adult contemporary, it was known as "Z-105", "3WM", and "Magic 105", respectively. After dumping the WXEZ calls (to a Chicago station) they obtained WWWM-FM (From a Cleveland station who went by "M105"), hence the "3WM". The station rebranded as "Star 105" in 1998, keeping its calls and Hot AC format.

Their AM sister station on 1470, WOHO, then also changed their calls to WWWM (AM) from 1990-1995. The format was urban contemporary music at the time.

The Toledo duopoly of 1470AM/105.5FM has always been owned by the Lew Dickey family, first as Midwestern Broadcasting, then as Cumulus Broadcasting/Media.

In April 2008, WWWM-FM began continuous HD Radio digital radio broadcasts, but without any HD2 service at this time.

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