WAYZ
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WAYZ is a Country
formatted broadcast
radio station
licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland
, serving the Four-State Area. WAYZ is owned and operated by VerStandig Broadcasting.
FM 104.7 came on the air in 1946 as WJEJ-FM (sister to WJEJ 1240). Until 2000 the station was known as easy listening/beautiful music formatted WWMD under Hagerstown Broadcasting, when the station was sold to VerStandig. At that time the callsigns for 104.7 WWMD and 101.5 WAYZ were swapped. WWMD was later changed to WFYN and is now WBHB, branded 101.5 Bob Rocks.
Country music
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formatted broadcast
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Radio station
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licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown is a city in northwestern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Washington County, and, by many definitions, the largest city in a region known as Western Maryland. The population of Hagerstown city proper at the 2010 census was 39,662, and the population of the...
, serving the Four-State Area. WAYZ is owned and operated by VerStandig Broadcasting.
FM 104.7 came on the air in 1946 as WJEJ-FM (sister to WJEJ 1240). Until 2000 the station was known as easy listening/beautiful music formatted WWMD under Hagerstown Broadcasting, when the station was sold to VerStandig. At that time the callsigns for 104.7 WWMD and 101.5 WAYZ were swapped. WWMD was later changed to WFYN and is now WBHB, branded 101.5 Bob Rocks.