WBHB-FM is an
active rock
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...
music formatted
broadcast
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radio station licensed to
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Waynesboro () is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located on the southern border of the state, Waynesboro is in the Cumberland Valley between Hagerstown, Maryland, Hagerstown, Maryland, and Chamb ...
, serving "Four-State" area (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia).
WBHB-FM is owned and operated by M. Belmont Verstandig, Inc.
History
Beginning in the late 1970s, then-
WAYZ
WAYZ (104.7 FM, ''104.7 WAYZ'') is a commercial country music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown is a city in Washington County, Maryland, United States, and its county seat. The population was 43, ...
101.5 FM was a country-formatted station.
VerStandig bought FM 104.7 from John Staub (Hagerstown Broadcasting) and moved the WAYZ country format there in 2000, leaving it with FM 101.5; it broadcast an audio CNN headline news format for three weeks.
Top 40 "Magic 101.5" debuted in October 2000, and operated until February 27, 2005. This returned the format for the first time since
WKMZ changed back to album-oriented rock in 1993.
On February 27 of that year, Hagerstown-based
WARX
WARX (93.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station in Lewiston, Maine that features worship music programming from Air1. It is under ownership of the Educational Media Foundation.
The station (at that time WCYI), along with co-owned WCLZ, was tr ...
flipped to
classic hits as "106.9 The Eagle", a few hours before Verstandig flipped WWMD to classic rock as "Eagle 101.5" with the callsign WEEG.
After a few days of dueling "Eagle"s, WWMD ceded the branding, briefly going with "The New 101.5". The following week, it became "Classic Rock 101.5" with the callsign WFYN. Local media observers noted the similarity of the new callsign, which had no obvious meaning, to a profane insult ("fuck you, Nassau") over the branding conflict.
On September 17, 2007, WFYN flipped from
classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on comm ...
to
active rock
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...
as ''Rock 101.5.''
On March 16, 2009, WFYN became WBHB-FM and changed its ''Rock 101.5'' branding to ''101.5 Bob Rocks''; it continues to broadcast an active rock format.
In July 2025, Verstanding Media announced that WBHB-FM active rock format will moved to 92.1, and WAYZ country format will moved back to the old 101.5 since 2000.
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1959 establishments in Pennsylvania
Active rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1959
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