WCCC (FM)
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| City | Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Broadcast area | Hartford, Connecticut |
| Branding | K-LOVE |
| Slogan | Positive, Encouraging |
| Frequency | 106.9 MHz |
| First air date | June 7, 1960 |
| Format |
Contemporary Christian Religious |
| ERP | 23,000 watts |
| HAAT | 221 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 25072 |
| Callsign meaning |
We Cover Connecticut's Capital (Ivor Hugh quoting original owner, jeweler Bill Savitt) |
| Former callsigns | WCCC-FM (1960–2016) |
| Affiliations | K-LOVE |
| Owner | Educational Media Foundation |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | klove.com |
WCCC (106.9 FM) is a radio station serving central Connecticut with a Contemporary Christian format. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation and operates as part of its K-Love network. WCCC is licensed to serve Hartford, and its transmitter tower is in West Hartford, Connecticut. The station was established in 1960, and from 1975 until August 1, 2014 the station broadcast rock music and regularly invited listeners to make requests and also held contests and offered prizes to their listeners.
WCCC-FM was licensed on a frequency of 106.9 MHz. in 1959 with a transmitter site atop Avon Mountain in West Hartford, and went on the air June 7, 1960. The station was owned by well-known Hartford jeweler Bill Savitt, and the studios, shared with sister station WNWW, were on the "lower street level" of the Hotel Bond on Asylum St. In the late 1960s WCCC-FM moved to 11 Asylum Street in Hartford and changed to a hugely popular "All Request" format which was simulcast in part on WCCC. WCCC was one of the only stations in the country ever owned by a record label, in this case Elektra (1960s). Sy Dresner's Greater Hartford Communications Corp. purchased the station in the early Seventies and during the summer of 1975 the station switched to a progressive rock music format. At one point in time WCCC could be heard not only on 106.9 FM, but on also 1290 AM (until that station changed to a classical music format in 2002). For short periods of time in the 1980s WCCC experimented with all-talk and sports radio all-sports formats. During the summer of 1976, the format was tweaked to a more mainstream album rock format. Conservative National Commentator Paul "The Rest of the Story" Harvey was heard on WCCC for close to two decades. WCCC was the home of Howard Stern in the late 1979, where he worked morning drive. This was Stern's first job in a large market. It was at WCCC that Stern met Fred Norris, the longest-tenured member of Stern's staff, who followed Stern when Stern left Hartford. From May 1996, Stern's syndicated morning show aired every weekday morning on WCCC-FM until he departed for Sirius Satellite Radio in December 2005. WCCC replaced Stern in the morning with Sebastian, who had worked for the station in the mid-1990s until moving to WZMX in February 1995. Sebastian left the station at the end of August, 2009.
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