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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves

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, and Kewaunee counties. The station is owned by Bryan Mazur, through licensee Mazur, LLC. WBDK broadcasts in

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and features a classic country format on its secondary HD2 channel. The HD2 programming is relayed on translator W277BP 103.3 FM, licensed to Sturgeon Bay. W277BP was formerly a translator of religious broadcaster

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in Suring, Wisconsin.

History

The station went on the air as WOMA on November 5, 1986, on the 96.5 MHz frequency by D & M Broadcasting. The Docket 80-90 station and was probably the first one of these stations to go on the air. The station struggled for years and was sold in 1989 to Wheeler Broadcasting in

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, who slowly introduced

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format by mixing it with its then-

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format and progressed to make it all-country. Due to the large distance of other Wheeler Broadcasting holdings in relation to WOMA, Wheeler unloaded it to Nicolet Broadcasting in 1992 for $150,000. Shortly after the sale, offices were moved to Luxemburg, Wisconsin, to be closer to Green Bay. The format changed to a "soft oldies" (

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of the 1940s through the 1960s). The frequency was later changed to 96.7 MHz in order to increase their broadcast range and

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changed to the current WBDK. Nicolet Broadcasting sold WBDK, its translator, and three sister stations to Mazur, LLC effective December 2, 2019, for $1.5 million.

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* * * BDK Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1986 1986 establishments in Wisconsin Kewaunee County, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-radio-station-stub