WWEG (106.9 FM, "106.9 The Eagle") is a commercial American radio station licensed to serve Myersville, Maryland. The station is owned by Manning Broadcasting, Inc. and broadcasts a classic hits format. The station's broadcast tower is located west of Myersville at (). The station's service contour covers portions of the "Four-State Region" of western

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, eastern

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and northern

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HD Radio

WWEG uses

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and broadcasts a soft oldies format on its HD2 subchannel, branded as "Fred FM", which is simulcast on translators W232DG in Frederick, Maryland and W271BV in Hagerstown, Maryland. The station also broadcasts a classic country format on its HD3 subchannel, branded as "93.5 & 100.5 Max Country", which is simulcast on translators W228AM in Frederick, Maryland, and W263CR in Halfway, Maryland. The HD4 subchannel is a simulcast of talk formatted WARK AM. On May 12, 2025, WWEG's HD2 subchannel changed their format from contemporary Christian to soft oldies, branded as "Fred FM".

History

The station signed on for the first time in 1954, with the WARK-FM call sign. In 1976, the call sign was changed to WWCS, standing for "Country Sunshine", an automated country format it ran at the time. In a market dominated with country stations (WYII & WAYZ), WWCS struggled in the ratings even though it had the most powerful broadcast signal. On October 6, 1982, WWCS became WXCS, dropping its

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format for

album-oriented rock Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock. US rad ...

using the branding "107 X Marks The Rock". 107 X was a hit immediately, although its popularity waned as the "AOR" format struggled in the 80's. On March 1, 1985, the call sign was changed to WARX, the AOR format was switched to

soft adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

and the station rebranded as "Magic 106.9". In February 1992, the station switched to an

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format with a branding change to "Oldies 106.9". On December 30, 2004, previous owner Manning Broadcasting sold WARK and WARX to Nassau Broadcasting, who took control immediately via a

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. On February 27, 2005, Nassau flipped to classic hits with the branding "106.9 The Eagle". Later the same day, nearby Waynesboro, Pennsylvania-based WWMD (now WBHB-FM) switched from

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with the WEEG call sign and a similar branding of "Eagle 101.5". After a brief time of dueling "Eagle"s, WEEG ceded the branding the following week and flipped to "Classic Rock 101.5" with the callsign WFYN. In 2008, the city of license was changed to Myersville, Maryland. After Nassau went into

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, WWEG and WARK, along with WAFY in

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, were re-purchased by Manning Broadcasting in May 2012, with the sale being completed on November 1, 2012, at a price of $6.4 million. Manning's repurchase of WWEG and WARK followed a lawsuit against Nassau over missed payments.

Translators

The following three translators simulcast the programming of WWEG-HD2 or HD3:

Former logos

(HD2)

References

External links

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