WOUF (750 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

licensed to

Petoskey, Michigan Petoskey ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat and largest city in Emmet County. Part of Northern Michigan, Petoskey is a popular Midwestern resort town, as it sits on the shore of Little Traverse Bay, a bay of ...

, and owned by Suzanne Henderson through N Content Marketing.

History

The station began broadcasting in June 2000, holding the call sign WWKK, and aired an

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as wel ...

format with programming from

Westwood One Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming. The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The company w ...

. The station was branded "Kool 750". The station was owned by Stone Communications. In 2002, the station's weekday programming was changed to

talk Talk may refer to: Communication * Communication, the encoding and decoding of exchanged messages between people * Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people * Lecture, an oral presentation intended to inform or instruct ...

. The station retained the "Kool 750" branding. In 2007, Stone Communications exchanged the station for 1210 WLDR in

Kingsley, Michigan Kingsley () is a village in southern Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,431 at the 2020 census. The village is located within Paradise Township and is part of the Traverse City micropolitan area. Histor ...

, with Roy Henderson's Fort Bend Broadcasting taking ownership of 750 WWKK and a payment of $244,000 in cash. In April 2007, the station's format was changed to

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, o ...

, simulcasting WLDR-FM. In May 2007, the station's call sign was changed to WLDR. In 2008, the station's call sign was changed to WARD, which was named after Roy Henderson's son. In 2014, WARD and its simulcast partner WLDR-FM adopted an adult contemporary format. In mid-October 2019, WARD went silent (off the air).Blarney Stone Broadcasting Launches North-FM In Traverse City After LMA Collapse
Radioinsight – November 6, 2019 The call letters were changed to WOUF, previously used on two other Northern Michigan stations, on November 9, 2021.

References

External links

* {{Traverse City-Petoskey Radio OUF (AM) Radio stations established in 2000 2000 establishments in Michigan Easy listening radio stations