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WAEB-FM (104.1 MHz, "B104") is a commercial radio station licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and serving the Lehigh Valley. The station airs a contemporary hit radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios and offices are on Alta Drive in Whitehall.
WAEB-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the maximum for most Pennsylvania stations. Its transmitter is on Tower Road in Walnutport, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Allentown. WAEB-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD3 subchannel, "Latina FM", plays Spanish CHR and feeds FM translators in Allentown, Reading and Hazleton.
WAEB-FM signed on the air on June 30, 1961. It debuted as the sister station of WAEB (790 AM), simulcasting its Top 40 format in its first few years. In the late 1960s, WAEB-FM separated its programming from WAEB and aired an automated beautiful music format, playing quarter-hour sweeps of soft instrumental music. It went through several more formats before eventually becoming a country music station in 1970 with the call sign WXKW.
In April 1985, it returned to the WAEB-FM call letters and switched to a soft adult contemporary format, initially playing a few middle of the road (MOR) artists as well as some new songs. The station was known as "Light 104 WAEB-FM".
By the early part of 1986, WAEB FM had evolved to more of a mainstream AC format, but by the late part of 1986, the station was phasing out the "Light" name. It became "104 WAEB-FM" with the music mix changing to a dayparted AC/CHR mix without the hype, more adult by day, more youthful at night.
January 26, 1987, was the day when "the records went away". WAEB-FM switched to a CHR-Top 40 format, becoming "The world's first ever laser hit-music radio station, The New Laser 104.1 WAEB-FM". This marked when WAEB-FM began playing 90% percent of its music from compact discs or CDs.
In 1991, the station gradually replaced the "Laser 104.1" branding by simply calling the station "104.1 WAEB-FM".
The station began calling itself "The New B104 FM" in 1992. By late 1992, WAEB-FM started to play down the fact that the station was "new" and began positioning itself as playing "10 songs in a row".
WAEB-FM
WAEB-FM (104.1 MHz, "B104") is a commercial radio station licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and serving the Lehigh Valley. The station airs a contemporary hit radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios and offices are on Alta Drive in Whitehall.
WAEB-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the maximum for most Pennsylvania stations. Its transmitter is on Tower Road in Walnutport, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Allentown. WAEB-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD3 subchannel, "Latina FM", plays Spanish CHR and feeds FM translators in Allentown, Reading and Hazleton.
WAEB-FM signed on the air on June 30, 1961. It debuted as the sister station of WAEB (790 AM), simulcasting its Top 40 format in its first few years. In the late 1960s, WAEB-FM separated its programming from WAEB and aired an automated beautiful music format, playing quarter-hour sweeps of soft instrumental music. It went through several more formats before eventually becoming a country music station in 1970 with the call sign WXKW.
In April 1985, it returned to the WAEB-FM call letters and switched to a soft adult contemporary format, initially playing a few middle of the road (MOR) artists as well as some new songs. The station was known as "Light 104 WAEB-FM".
By the early part of 1986, WAEB FM had evolved to more of a mainstream AC format, but by the late part of 1986, the station was phasing out the "Light" name. It became "104 WAEB-FM" with the music mix changing to a dayparted AC/CHR mix without the hype, more adult by day, more youthful at night.
January 26, 1987, was the day when "the records went away". WAEB-FM switched to a CHR-Top 40 format, becoming "The world's first ever laser hit-music radio station, The New Laser 104.1 WAEB-FM". This marked when WAEB-FM began playing 90% percent of its music from compact discs or CDs.
In 1991, the station gradually replaced the "Laser 104.1" branding by simply calling the station "104.1 WAEB-FM".
The station began calling itself "The New B104 FM" in 1992. By late 1992, WAEB-FM started to play down the fact that the station was "new" and began positioning itself as playing "10 songs in a row".