WDBF-FM

WDBF-FM
City	Mount Union, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Mount Union, Pennsylvania Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Branding	Bigfoot Country
Frequency	106.3 MHz
First air date	1992 (as WQHC)
Format	Country
ERP	120 watts
HAAT	439 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	28132
Callsign meaning	W D BigFoot
Former callsigns	WQHG (1990-2001) WWZB (2001-2002) WWLY (2002-2006) WSGY (2/2006-7/2006) WFZY (2006-2008) WBSS (2008-2009) WHUN-FM (2009-2015)
Owner	Seven Mountains Media (Southern Belle, LLC)
Sister stations	WIBF
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	radiobigfoot.com

WDBF-FM is an American radio station, licensed to Mount Union, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts on the frequency of 106.3 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 3,000 watts. The station is owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle, LLC. It is part of a simulcast of WIBF of Mexico. Although also owned by Seven Mountains Media, WIBF and WDBF do not feature the same programming as the network of Bigfoot Country stations based in Selinsgrove.

History

History of 106.3 FM

A station at 106.3 FM first went on the air as the sister FM to WHUN AM 1150 featuring simulcast broadcast. When the AM signed off at local sunset listeners were invited to switch to 106.3 FM and continuing listening until midnight. In 1976 the FM became WRLR, Raystown Lake Radio and featured a beautiful music format. Heavy rotation of instrumental versions of popular songs, with a few vocals each hour. WHUN AM first went on the air in March, 1947 at 1400 AM with 250 watts, then increased power to 1,000 watts. WHUN AM then switched to 1150 AM a regional signal and operates at 5,000 watts daytime and has decreased pre and post sunset power levels non-directional.

In early 1987, WRLR switched from 106.3 to 103.5 FM in order to increase its coverage area from a new tower location on Williamsburg Mountain, leaving the old dial location vacant.

History of WDBF-FM

In 1992, Mary Lou Maierhofer of Altoona applied for and was granted the license to operate at 106.3 FM in Huntingdon. The station with the call letters WQHG went on the air from the studio location of a now dark directional daytime only AM radio station, WQRO AM 1080 which had signed on the air in the mid 1970s. Utilizing the old studios along Fairgrounds Road, WQHG also acquired the old transmitter location of WRLR on Stone Creek Ridge. One remaining tower from old WQRO was used as an STL facility for WQHG to send its signal to the transmitter site.

In 1998, Maierhofer agreed to sell the station to Warren Diggins and his Millennium Broadcasting, who switched the format from Adult Contemporary to Country under the theme Bear Country. Diggins' group then sold the station to Megahertz Licenses, a subsidiary of Forever Broadcasting in Altoona, PA for $620,000.

Three years after the sale, Megahertz Licenses successfully petitioned the FCC for a change in the station's community of license from Huntingdon to Mount Union.

On September 21, 2009, WBSS changed their call letters to WHUN-FM and flipped from classic rock (simulcasting WBUS 93.7 FM) to oldies, branded as "Hunny 106".

On September 1, 2015, WHUN-FM dropped the oldies format in favor of a country station known as Big Foot Country, along with WIBF and WZBF. This followed the consummation of the sale of WHUN-FM and sister station WHUN by Forever Broadcasting to Southern Belle, LLC, at a purchase price of $100,000. On September 15, WHUN-FM changed their call letters to WDBF-FM, to go with the "Bigfoot Country" branding.

Station information

Station Status Licensed Class A FM Station
Effective Radiated Power 120 Watts
Height above Avg. Terrain 439 meters (1440 feet)
Height above Ground Level 27 meters (89 feet)
Height above Sea Level 728 meters (2388 feet)
Antenna Pattern Non-Directional
Transmitter Location 40° 24' 53" N, 77° 54' 13" W

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References

1981 Broadcasting Yearbook

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WDBF

Radio-Locator information on WDBF

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WDBF

Radio stations in the Altoona, Pennsylvania market

By AM frequency	1110 1150 1240 1290 1370 1430

By FM frequency	88.1 89.1 91.9 93.5 94.3 94.7 97.1 98.1 100.1 102.7 103.5 103.9 104.9 105.9 106.3 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425

By callsign	W274BE WALY WBRX WBXQ WDBF-FM WFBG WFGY WHHN WHUN WJSM WKMC WLAK WQCK WLKE WMES-LP WMMH WNG589 WRKY-FM WRTA WRXV WVAM WWOT

Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

Radio stations in the Lewistown-Mifflintown, Pennsylvania market

By FM frequency	88.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 92.5 95.7 96.7 105.5 106.3 107.1

By AM frequency	670 920 1150 1220

By callsign	WCHX WDBF-FM WFBM WFBV WHUN WIEZ WJRC WIBF WJUN WKVA WMRF WQJU WRYV WVNW

Defunct	WFBM-LP (100.1)

Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

Country radio stations in the state of Pennsylvania

Stations	WANB – Waynesburg WBLJ-FM – Shamokin WBYL – Salladasburg WCAT-FM – Carlisle WCFT-FM - Bloomsburg WCTO – Easton WDBF-FM - Mount Union WDDH – Saint Marys WDKC – Covington WDSY-FM – Pittsburgh WEEO – Shippensburg WFGE – State College WFGI – Charleroi WFGI-FM – Johnstown WFGY – Altoona WFRM – Coudersport WGGI – Benton WGGY – Scranton WGTY – Gettysburg WGYI – Oil City WGYY – Meadville WHGB – Harrisburg WHGL-FM – Canton WHUN – Huntingdon WHVR – Hanover WIBF– Mexico WILQ – Williamsport WIOO – Carlisle WIOV-FM – Ephrata WKNB – Clarendon WKVE – Waynesburg WLCY – Blairsville WOGG – Oliver WOGH – Burgettstown WOGI – Moon Township WOWQ – Du Bois WPGB – Pittsburgh WQBG – Elizabethville WQBR – Avis WQCK – Philipsburg WRBG – Mifflinburg WRBT – Harrisburg WSJR – Dallas WSKE – Everett WTWF – Fairview WVNW – Burnham WWCB - Corry WWCH – Clarion WWGY – Grove City WWSM – Annville-Cleona WXTA – Edinboro WXTU – Philadelphia WZBF - Beaver Springs WZCY-FM – Hershey

Defunct	WKZV – Washington

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Pennsylvania

Coordinates: 40°24′53″N 77°54′13″W / 40.41472°N 77.90361°W / 40.41472; -77.90361

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