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WWDE-FM
WWDE-FM 2014.png
City Hampton, Virginia
Broadcast area Hampton Roads
Branding "101-3 2WD"
Slogan "10 songs in a row. The best variety of the 80s, 90s and today!"
Frequency 101.3 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date June 1, 1962
Format
Adult Contemporary
Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.)
ERP 50,000 Watts
HAAT 152 Meters (499 ft)
Class B
Facility ID 40753
Transmitter coordinates 36°49′41.0″N 76°15′5.0″W / 36.828056°N 76.251389°W / 36.828056; -76.251389
Former callsigns WVHR
Owner
Entercom Communications
(Entercom License, LLC)
Sister stations
WNVZ, WPTE, WVKL
Webcast WWDE-FM Webstream
Website WWDE-FM Online

WWDE-FM (101.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Hampton, Virginia, serving the Norfolk/Hampton Roads media market. WWDE-FM airs an adult contemporary radio format. The station is owned and operated by Entercom Communications.[1]


WWDE-FM has studios and offices on Clearfield Avenue in Virginia Beach.[2] The transmitter is off East Indian River Road in Norfolk.[3]


WWDE-FM broadcasts in HD. The station calls itself "2WD" referring to the two Ws in its call letters, followed by a D and an E that can be pronounced as "DEE." WWDE-FM is one of two Hampton Roads FM radio stations to play all-Christmas music from mid-November to December 25, with the other being 107.7 WMOV-FM, owned by iHeartMedia. AM 1230 WJOI, owned by Saga Communications, also plays all-holiday music starting a couple of weeks before Christmas.



History




Original Logo used until April 2013.


The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1962 Owned by Dick Lamb, Larry Saunders and Gene Loving.[4] During the 1970s, it was co-owned with AM 1490 WVEC (now WXTG) and Channel 13 WVEC-TV. Its call letters were WVHR and it aired a middle of the road music format, sometimes simulcast with its AM sister station. Its longtime adult contemporary format started on July 31, 1978, with Lamb and sidekick Paul Richardson hosting the 2WD Breakfast Bunch until January 28, 2005. Both have moved to rival WVBW.[5]


On December 26, 2006, WWDE shifted to Soft Adult Contemporary, but retained the "2WD" moniker. On April 1, 2013, WWDE shifted back to Mainstream Adult Contemporary, and rebranded as "The New 101.3 2WD".[6]


In May 1987, a popular WWDE overnight DJ, Debbie Dicus was murdered in broad daylight while tending to her garden in a public park in Hampton. Her tragic murder is noted on a Forensic Files episode, "Garden of Evil."



References





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  2. ^ http://www.2wd.com/contact-us


  3. ^ http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=WWDE-FM


  4. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-219


  5. ^ http://www.vartv.com/media/wwde02.wma


  6. ^ http://www.vartv.com/media/WWDE04.wma




  • Hampton Roads Media Information

  • Article about Dick Lamb in the Virginian Pilot

  • [1]



External links



  • 101-3 2WD Online



  • Query the FCC's FM station database for WWDE

  • Radio-Locator information on WWDE

  • Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WWDE













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