WCFB
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| City | Daytona Beach/Orlando |
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| Broadcast area | Central Florida |
| Branding | Star 94.5 |
| Slogan | Today's R&B and Throwbacks |
| Frequency | 94.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) 94.5-2: WCFB-HD2 (Spanish Hot AC "107.3 Solo Éxitos") 94.5-3: WCFB-HD3 (Old-school hip hop) |
| Translator(s) | 107.3 W297BB (Orlando, relays HD2) |
| First air date | March 1947 (as WNDB-FM) |
| Format | Urban AC |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 451 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 10343 |
| Callsign meaning | We're Central Florida's B94.5 (former brandname) or W Central Florida's Broadcaster |
| Former callsigns | WNDB-FM (1947-1973) WDNJ (1973-1978) WWLV (1978-1992) |
| Owner |
Cox Broadcasting (Cox Radio, Inc.) |
| Sister stations |
WDBO, WDBO-FM, WMMO, WPYO, WWKA part of Cox cluster with TV station WFTV |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Star 94.5 Listen Live 107.3 Solo Éxitos (WCFB-HD2) 107.3 Solo Éxitos (WCFB-HD2) (via TuneIn) |
| Website |
Star 94.5 107.3 Solo Éxitos (HD2) |
WCFB is a radio station that is licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida that serves the Greater Orlando area. Its signal can be heard as far west as Inverness and as far north as Gainesville. Under ownership of Cox Radio, its studios are located in Orlando and the transmitter tower is in Pine Lakes.
The station began in March 1947 as WNDB-FM, sister station of WNDB/1150, and was owned by Daytona Beach News Journal. In 1978, the station flipped to soft adult contemporary as WWLV, "Love 94.5". On August 7, 1992, after being purchased by New City Communications, WWLV flipped to country as "B94.5", WCFB. On May 11, 1995, WCFB changed formats to Rhythmic AC, which later evolved to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Star 94.5". This makes WCFB the first urban radio station in years in Orlando to challenge longtime WJHM, which switched formats from rhythmic contemporary to urban contemporary by that time. When WJHM returned to Rhythmic Top 40 in 2011, WCFB once again became the de facto Urban outlet in Central Florida, even though it has always stayed in its own lane with its audience rather than try to compete fiercely for listeners.
WCFB was purchased by Cox Communications in 1997.
A tornado on February 2, 2007 knocked WCFB's signal off the air for a brief period, as it destroyed the transmitter site and a nearby building, near Pine Lakes. The station returned to the air broadcasting from a temporary transmitter located at another Cox owned tower in Christmas for a short period of time before the station's temporary transmitter site moved to high power facilities at a tower in Orange City off of Miller Rd. The replacement tower in Paisley was finished in mid-November 2007. As of October 24, 2008, WCFB has moved back to the Pine Lakes site.
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