WEBC-FM
Radio station in Superior, Wisconsin (1940–1950)
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WEBC-FM (92.3 FM) was a radio station licensed to Superior, Wisconsin and which served the Duluth-Superior metropolitan area.
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| Frequency | 92.3 MHz |
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| Programming | |
| Format | Defunct |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Head of the Lakes Broadcasting Company |
| WEBC | |
| History | |
First air date | March 15, 1940 (as W9XYH) |
Last air date | May 13, 1950[1] |
Former call signs | W9XYH (1940–1943) WDUL (1943–1947) |
Former frequencies | 43.1 MHz (1940–1943) 44.5 MHz (1944–1945)[2] |
| Technical information | |
| Power | 65,000 watts[3] |
Transmitter coordinates | 46.691°N 92.104°W[4] |
History
WEBC-FM began broadcasting on March 15, 1940, as what was then "the farthest west United States FM radio station",[5] and with the experimental callsign W9XYH. It was an early adopter of United States low band (44-50 MHz) frequency modulation broadcasting. When the FM band was moved to its present location of 88-108 MHz in 1945, WEBC-FM (then WDUL) was the first station in the nation to begin regular programming on the new band.[6]