WPHD (98.7

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, "Cool Radio") is an FM

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, United States. The station is owned by Kristin Cantrell's Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle, LLC. It broadcasts a classic hits music format to the

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, metropolitan area.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on July 2,

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. The new station was assigned the call letters WCBA-FM by the FCC on December 3, 1987. WCBA-FM received its license to cover from the FCC on March 23, 1990. In April 1990, licensee Dean J. Slack reached an agreement to sell this station to Eolin Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 21, 1990, and the transaction was consummated on June 8, 1990. Completing a swap between sister stations where the former WGMM became WCBA-FM (now

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) and this station, WCBA-FM's call letters were changed to WGMM-FM by the FCC on May 16,

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

. Just six weeks later, the station was assigned the call sign WGMM by the FCC on June 29,

. In June 2021, WGMM rebranded as "Cool Radio" following the acquisition of the station by Seven Mountains Media. On June 23, 2021, WGMM changed their call letters to WPHD.Call Letter Changes
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