Radio station in Melbourne, Florida
WAOA-FM (107.1 MHz ) is a commercial radio station licensed to Melbourne and covering Florida 's Space Coast . Owned by Cumulus Media , it broadcasts a top 40 (CHR) radio format . It calls itself W A O ne A , named after Coastal Florida highway State Road A1A . The radio studios and offices are on West Hibiscus Boulevard in Melbourne.
WAOA-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts , the maximum power for non-grandfathered FM stations. It can be heard as far north as Daytona Beach , as far west as Winter Haven and far south as Port St. Lucie . Its transmitter is in Melbourne, on Harlock Road, visible from Interstate 95 .[1] As of October 2007, the station was streamed online via iHeart Radio .
History
In November 1972, the station signed on as WTAI-FM with an adult contemporary music format. It briefly aired a beautiful music format in 1978. Then on July 10, 1978, it changed its call sign to WLLV, and its format to Contemporary Christian music . On February 24, 1984, the call sign was switched to WVTI, and the format flipped to CHR .[2]
On December 15, 1989 the station changed call signs again, becoming WAOA, and changed its format to Hot AC . It adjusted to regular AC in 1996, then back to CHR in 2002, a year after the station was bought by Cumulus.[2] WAOA became the current WAOA-FM on June 29, 2000, when sister A.M. station WLZR became WAOA.[3]
WAOA-FM is often ranked #1, the most-listened-to radio station in the Cocoa Beach-Melbourne-Titusville Nielsen Audio market.
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28°08′13″N 80°42′11″W / 28.137°N 80.703°W / 28.137; -80.703