Radio WKPE-FM (Country 104)

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WKPE-FM (103.9 FM), known as "Cape Country 104", is a Country radio station licensed to South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, with its main studio in Hyannis, Massachusetts, shared with WFCC-FM, WQRC, and WOCN-FM. WKPE-FM is owned by local Cape Cod Business "Cape Cod Broadcasting" (aka Sandab Communications).

In 1980, the FM band was still new territory for Top-40 radio. Boston's Kiss 108 had only started one year prior and was very popular, routinely beating Top-40 AM station WRKO in the ratings. Cape Cod needed its own similar station to comp... Voir plus

508-771-1224
737 West Main StreetHyannis, MA 02601
WKPE-FM (103.9 FM), known as "Cape Country 104", is a Country radio station licensed to South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, with its main studio in Hyannis, Massachusetts, shared with WFCC-FM, WQRC, and WOCN-FM. WKPE-FM is owned by local Cape Cod Business "Cape Cod Broadcasting" (aka Sandab Communications).

In 1980, the FM band was still new territory for Top-40 radio. Boston's Kiss 108 had only started one year prior and was very popular, routinely beating Top-40 AM station WRKO in the ratings. Cape Cod needed its own similar station to compete in its own market, and in May 1980, WKZE-FM hit the airwaves for the first time on 104.7 FM, branding itself "KZ 104"

After just over 3 successful years in the Top-40 format, the station gained its current call letters on August 1, 1983, re-branding itself WKPE "Cape 104", while retaining the same Top-40 music format. As "Cape 104", the station became one of the Cape's most iconic stations of the 1980s, and was popular among a wide variety of demographics. Legendary voices on the station included - Clarence Barnes, Pilot Gene, "Jammin" Jamie West, Steve Binder, Danny Walsh, Christine Fox, Paul Attea, Keith Lemire, Joe Rossetti, J.R. Randall, Marty Moran, Carolyn Johnson, Danny Walsh, Donna Wilde, Kristie Wiemer, Rick Ryder, Tony Vincent, Rick Pendelton, R.J. McKay, Steve McVie, JD (Jamie Bearse), Liza Z, Krissy Krantz, John Stevens and David Wolf to name a few. After the Top-40 format fragmented, "Cape 104" switched formats in the fall of 1992, rebranding itself "Oldies 104" to compete with Boston's "Oldies 103" and Nantucket's "Oldies 96" (which went Top-40 in January 1993).

After a 2.5-year experiment in the Oldies format, during the spring of 1995 WKPE switched formats to a modern rock format and became "Rock 104.7, The Cape." It was in direct competition with the other local area rock station WPXC.In 1999, the station was sold by Grancam Communications to Charles River Broadcasting. In September 1999 the channel switched formats to classic rock.

With the 2006-07 dismantling of Charles River Broadcasting, Cape Cod Broadcasting, owner of WQRC and WOCN-FM, signed a contract to operate WFCC-FM and WKPE under a local marketing agreement, with the two stations still licensed to Charles River.

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