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]WARH (106.5 MHz FM) is a radio station in Granite City, Illinois. WARH serves the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area.
Originally, the station took to the air in 1965 as WGNU-FM under the ownership of the late Chuck Norman. The station was programmed with a country music format and was simulcast on WGNU 920 AM. Norman sold the station to Doubleday Broadcasting in 1976. Doubleday changed the station's call letters to WWWK (later KWK-FM) and the format to Top 40. Eventually, KWK became WKBQ-FM, retaining the Top 40 format.
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WARH (106.5 MHz FM) is a radio station in Granite City, Illinois. WARH serves the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area.
Originally, the station took to the air in 1965 as WGNU-FM under the ownership of the late Chuck Norman. The station was programmed with a country music format and was simulcast on WGNU 920 AM. Norman sold the station to Doubleday Broadcasting in 1976. Doubleday changed the station's call letters to WWWK (later KWK-FM) and the format to Top 40. Eventually, KWK became WKBQ-FM, retaining the Top 40 format.
When the station was purchased by Zimmer Radio Group of Cape Girardeau, Missouri in the mid 1990s, the station flip-flopped dial positions with sister station WKKX (currently WHHL) on 104.1, which had a country format known as "Kix 104." The station became "New Country Kix 106.5", where it would remain until 2000 when it was purchased by Bonneville, when it adopted a Smooth Jazz/NAC format as "Smooth 106.5 WSSM" (later "106.5 Smooth Jazz"). In April of 2005, the station adopted its current format and call letters.
Originally, the station took to the air in 1965 as WGNU-FM under the ownership of the late Chuck Norman. The station was programmed with a country music format and was simulcast on WGNU 920 AM. Norman sold the station to Doubleday Broadcasting in 1976. Doubleday changed the station's call letters to WWWK (later KWK-FM) and the format to Top 40. Eventually, KWK became WKBQ-FM, retaining the Top 40 format.
When the station was purchased by Zimmer Radio Group of Cape Girardeau, Missouri in the mid 1990s, the station flip-flopped dial positions with sister station WKKX (currently WHHL) on 104.1, which had a country format known as "Kix 104." The station became "New Country Kix 106.5", where it would remain until 2000 when it was purchased by Bonneville, when it adopted a Smooth Jazz/NAC format as "Smooth 106.5 WSSM" (later "106.5 Smooth Jazz"). In April of 2005, the station adopted its current format and call letters.
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