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For a brief time in the mid-1970s, WTOO set trends by breaking several songs before the major stations in Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland. This was under the management of Program and Music Director David Mark early in his career. Mark eventually became one of the country's major voice-over
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In the late 1960s, the station's callsign changed to WTOO (for "Top Of Ohio"), in 1981 to WTCY (for "Top (of Ohio) CountrY"), and then switched back to the WOHP calls on February 14, 1983, with a gospel format. On February 19, 1988, the station became WPKO, in recognition of its sister station,
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acknowledged the CP request on November 17, 2004, and further acknowledged an application for a major modification to a licensed facility on January 21, 2005. This may indicate plans by V-Teck to effectively move the station from Bellefontaine to the Grandview Heights-Columbus area.
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Joe Rockhold was a disk jockey at WOHP in the 1950s where he launched his broadcasting career. Shortly before the decade was over he became a staff announcer (and eventually became best known as children's show host "Uncle Orrie")at Dayton's
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WBLL originally signed on the air in 1951 with the call letters WOHP (for "Ohio's Highest Point"). It was the first radio station licensed to Bellefontaine since station WHBD relocated to
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announcers and, beginning in the 1990s and well into the 2000s, was the promotional voice of Fox TV network stations and many UPN TV network stations across the country.
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Mid 1970s-early 80s- Purchased by Triplett Broadcasting. WOGM becomes WTOO-FM by 1976. WTOO-AM becomes WTCY in 1981. AM callsign reverts to WOHP in 1983.
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Late 1980s-present- Purchased by V-Teck Communications, Callsign switched to WPKO-AM in 1988 and again in 1989 to the current WBLL.
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where he remained until his retirement in 1969. Rockhold however remained active in broadcasting throughout his retirement at
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While the license location for the newest application is in Grandview Heights, the major modification request is for
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Early 1970s- Purchased by WOHP Inc. Callsign switched to WTOO in 1969. FM sister WOGM (98.1 mHz is founded in 1969)
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baseball, local high school sports). The station is owned by V-Teck Communications, and is the sister station of
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1950s- Founded in 1951 by C.H. Chaimberlain, (later acquired by Lake Erie Radio and TV Inc.) as WOHP.
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On January 3, 2018, WBLL flipped from its talk format to country music as "106.9 The Bull".
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On January 28, 2004, V-Teck Communications applied for a
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callsign is now being used at a low-power FM station in
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The WOHP callsign was later used at an FM station in
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Bellefontaine, Ohio
Frequency
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Format
Country music
Cleveland Guardians Radio Network
Ohio State Sports Network
Call sign
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Facility ID
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Power
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Urbana
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Listen live
www.peakofohio.com
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radio station
Bellefontaine
Ohio
country music
Cleveland Guardians
WPKO
Mount Orab, Ohio
WPAY
Portsmouth, Ohio

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