WPLT (FM)
country music radio station in Sarona, Wisconsin, United States
WPLT (106.3 MHz; "King Country") is an FM radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Sarona, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by Zoe Communications.
History
The station’s journey began on August 10, 2000, when it received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission. The WPLT call sign was officially assigned on June 15, 2001, and the station signed on the air in late 2003 after receiving its license to cover on November 12. Early in its history, the station utilized a branding of "106.3 The Planet" (playing on its call letters) positioning itself as "Today's Best Mix", before eventually transitioning to a country music format.
WPLT is owned and operated by Zoe Communications, Inc., which is based in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. The station currently broadcasts a country music format branded as "King Country 106.3." Unlike several of its sister stations in the Zoe cluster that were sold to Civic Media in recent years, WPLT remains under the ownership of Zoe Communications, led by Mike Oberg.
WPLT uses a directional antenna to prevent interference to short spaced WEVR-FM.
WPLT is a former call sign of what is now WDVD 96.3 FM in Detroit, Michigan.
The public source identifies “WPLT (FM)” as country music radio station in Sarona, Wisconsin, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WPLT, country and music.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7954372. Authority coordinates are 45.674, -91.981. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2001 and 2003.
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This entry incorporates text from “WPLT (FM)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.