WWJB (1450
AM, "103.9 The Boot") is an American
radio station licensed to serve the
community of
Brooksville, Florida
Brooksville is a city in western Florida and the county seat of Hernando County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 7,719, up from 7,264 at the 2000 census. Brooksville is home to historic buildings and residence ...
. The station, established in 1958 as WKTS, is currently owned and operated by Hernando Broadcasting Company, Inc. WWJB is also repeated on FM translators W222CI 92.3 FM Brooksville, Florida and W280DK 103.9 FM
Spring Hill, Florida.
Programming
Until October 16, 2017, WWJB broadcast a
full service Full service or Full Service may refer to:
* Full-service radio, a wide range of programming
* Full Service Network, a communications company
Entertainment
* "Full Service", a song by the New Kids on the Block from their album ''The Block''
* F ...
news
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the tes ...
/
talk radio format
Format may refer to:
Printing and visual media
* Text formatting, the typesetting of text elements
* Paper formats, or paper size standards
* Newspaper format, the size of the paper page
Computing
* File format, particular way that informatio ...
to the greater
Hernando County, Florida, area.
, weekday programming on the station included syndicated talk shows hosted by
Jim Bohannon,
Phil Hendrie,
Neal Boortz,
Sean Hannity,
Clark Howard, and
Michael Savage. Local weekday programming includes ''The Nature Coast Morning News'', ''The Haywire Talk Show'' with Bob Haa, and ''The Bob Penrod Show''. Weekend programming includes syndicated shows hosted by
Larry Kudlow,
Jerry Doyle, and
Kim Komando. Local weekend programming includes a
tradio program called ''Trading Post'', a three-hour block of
classic country music on Saturday, plus religious talk shows and local church services on Sunday morning.
On October 16, 2017, WWJB changed their format from news/talk to country, branded as "103.9 The Boot".
WWJB Boots Talk For Country
Radioinsight - October 16, 2017
Station alumni
One of the station's notable alumni included George Lowe, who later became well known for his role as Space Ghost in '' Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' on Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as dult swim
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and often abbreviated as s is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programme ...
. While living in Brooksville in the early-1970s, he began learning radio skills at WWJB. Mitch English from national television show ''The Daily Buzz
''The Daily Buzz'' (occasionally abbreviated ''"theDBZ"'') is a nationally syndicated news and infotainment program. The show premiered as a 3-hour weekday morning television show on September 16, 2002, initially airing on 10 stations owned and ...
'' started his broadcast career at the station in the early 1990s.
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Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1958
Hernando County, Florida
1958 establishments in Florida
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