WHOF

For the Canton radio station which carried the WHOF callsign from 1961 to 1967, see WILB (AM).

WHOF
City	North Canton, Ohio
Broadcast area	Canton-Akron metro areas
Branding	My 101.7
Slogan	The 80s and More
Frequency	101.7 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Translator(s)	99.7 W259BW (Canton, relays HD2)
First air date	July 25, 1968
Format	Variety Hits Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.) HD2: Country "99.7 Canton's New Country"
ERP	6,000 watts
HAAT	81 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	73135
Transmitter coordinates	40°49′22.00″N 81°25′41.00″W / 40.8227778°N 81.4280556°W / 40.8227778; -81.4280556
Callsign meaning	Hall Of Fame City
Former callsigns	WJER-FM (1968–2006)
Affiliations	Cumulus Media Networks iHeartRadio
Owner	iHeartMedia (CC Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations	WARF, WHLO, WKDD, WRQK-FM
Webcast	Listen Live Listen Live (HD2)
Website	my1017.com cantonsnewcountry.com (HD2)

WHOF (101.7 FM) – branded My 101.7 – is a commercial variety hits radio station licensed to North Canton, Ohio, serving both the Canton and Akron metro areas. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station is the local affiliate for programs hosted by nationally syndicated personalities Ron Wilson and Jim Brickman. The WHOF studios are located in North Canton, while the station transmitter resides in Canton. In addition to standard analog transmission, WHOF broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio.

History

former logo

WHOF began as WJER-FM, under license to Dover, Ohio, on July 25, 1968. On April 14, 2006, the Federal Communications Commission approved a request from the station's owners, iHeartMedia (then known as Clear Channel Communications) to move the WJER-FM city of license to North Canton, Ohio. On December 27, 2006, the station adopted a new callsign, WHOF, and signed off. On January 16, 2007, WHOF signed back on as My 101.7 with an adult contemporary format; Billy Joel's "My Life" was the first song to air.^[1]^[2]^[3]

On September 4th, 2015, WHOF dismissed all on-air staff and began stunting with 80s music, teasing a change to come the following Tuesday at 8AM. At that time, rumors abounded that WHOF would adopt the country format of its HD2 channel.^[4] The "Something Different" turned out to be an 1980s-oriented variety hits format, as WHOF removed all current/recurrent music. ^[5] The first song under the variety hits format was "My Town" by the Michael Stanley Band.

References

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WHOF

Radio-Locator information on WHOF

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WHOF

Radio stations in the Canton, Ohio market

By AM frequency	960 990 1060 1310 1450 1480 1520 1540

By FM frequency	88.7 89.3 90.1 90.9 90.9 91.1 91.5 92.5 94.1 95.3 95.9 99.9 101.7 104.5 106.9

By callsign	WBTC WCWS-FM WDJQ WDPN WHBC WHBC-FM WHOF WILB WINW WJDD WJEE WJER WKLM WKRJ WKRW WKVX WNPQ WOFN WQKT WRMU-FM WRQK-FM WTIG WTUZ

Defunct	WCER (900 AM)

Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also List of radio stations in Ohio

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia

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Miscellaneous	Clear Channel Outdoor Clear Channel UK iHeartRadio List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia Mediabase Radio Computing Services

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