WUBE-FM
country music radio station in Cincinnati
WUBE-FM (105.1 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a country music radio format. Licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, it is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.
WUBE-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 14,500 watts. It broadcasts using HD Radio technology. It airs an alternate country music format on its HD2 digital subchannel. The studios are located on Kennedy Avenue, in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati where they have been since August 2021, while the transmitter remains closer to Downtown Cincinnati, in the Walnut Hills neighborhood.
History
The station was originally known as WCPO-FM, owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, signed on July 8, 1949. One of the WCPO-FM announcers identified the frequency in the legal ID as 10-51 (ten-fifty-one) which was unique at the time. In January 1966, shortly after Scripps sold WCPO-AM-FM to Kaye-Smith Broadcasting, both stations changed their call signs to WUBE and WCXL-FM. WUBE switched to its long-running country format in April 1969. In October 1971, WCXL-FM dropped its good time automated music format to become a country format station, changing its call letters to WUBE-FM with the FM partially simulcasting the AM throughout the early 1970s.
“WUBE-FM” enters the record as country music radio station in Cincinnati. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what WUBE-FM, country and music can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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