WBOC-FM (102.5

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) is a radio station that broadcasts a Top 40/CHR format. Licensed to Princess Anne, Maryland, United States, the station is owned by the Draper Holdings Business Trust, as part of a cluster with CBS/ Fox affiliate

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(channel 16),

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affiliate

WRDE-LD WRDE-LD (channel 31) is a low-power television station in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by the Draper Holdings Business Trust alongside dual CBS and Fox affiliate WBOC-TV (channel 16), and low-power Ca ...

(channel 31),

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affiliate

WBOC-LD WBOC-LD (channel 42) is a low-power television station licensed to Cambridge, Maryland, United States, serving the Salisbury, Maryland market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by the Draper Holdings Busine ...

(channel 42), and sister radio stations WCEM-FM, WTDK, WCEM, WAAI and WRDE-FM.

History

The station went on the air December 24, 1976, as WOLC, a

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station owned by Maranatha, Inc. (not to be confused with the unrelated Maranatha Broadcasting Company, the owners of

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). In August 2015, Maranatha agreed to sell WOLC to Draper Holdings Business Trust, owner of

, and took the station off the air on August 18. Draper moved WOLC's studios from Princess Anne to the

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studios of WBOC-TV, using the space formerly occupied by the former WBOC radio (now WTGM and WQHQ); it also announced that the station would introduce a format that, while not yet chosen, would include news, weather, and sports content from WBOC-TV. Draper also filed to change the station's call letters to WBOC-FM. The sale was completed on November 10, 2015, at a purchase price of $650,000; the change to WBOC-FM took effect at that time. The station returned to the air on November 20, and aired

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without commercials through the holiday season. WBOC-FM launched its eventual

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format on December 31, 2015. WBOC-FM started leaning towards Top 40/CHR in March 2022 and rebranded as "Delmarva's Hit Music Station" to fill a CHR hole in the market when WOCQ flipped to country that month. Although WKZP also airs a similar format in Salisbury, the transmitter reach is not as wide as WOCQ.

References

External links

102.5 WBOC Online
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