WDHT
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| City | Urbana, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Dayton |
| Branding | "Hot 102.9" |
| Slogan | "Dayton's Hottest Hip Hop!" |
| Frequency | 102.9 MHZ |
| First air date | July 1958 (as WBLY-FM) |
| Format | Rhythmic contemporary |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 150 meters (492 feet) |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | Dayton HoT |
| Owner |
Alpha Media (Alpha Media Licensee LLC) |
| Sister stations | WGTZ, WING, WCLI, WROU |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Hot 102.9 |
WDHT, "Hot 102.9", is an Rhythmic contemporary radio station in Urbana, Ohio serving the Dayton/Springfield area that broadcasts on the 102.9 frequency. WDHT is currently owned by Alpha Media, which also owns WING, WROU-FM, WCLI-FM and WGTZ. Its transmitter site on Miller Road in Springfield is shared with that of WULM as this was previously the transmitting site of the former WBLY/WAZU. WUFM ("Radio U") based in Columbus also operates a Springfield translator (W254BJ at 98.7) from the same tower site. Its studios are in Kettering, Ohio.
Prior to becoming WDHT, the 102.9 frequency was originally licensed to Springfield as WBLY-FM from 1958 to 1979, simulcasting middle of the road-formatted WBLY before the FM switched to rock. In the late 1970s, they were known as WAZU, "FM-103 The Zoo...from A to Z to U." and played album oriented rock and occasionally some adult contemporary. In the mid to late-80s, they simply billed themselves as "103 WAZU", and later as "102.9 WAZU". On January 15, 1989, the station briefly went dark, and when they returned to the airwaves later that day they had switched directions to album oriented rock and began billing themselves as "The Big WAZU", which lasted until March 19, 1993, by which time the station had evolved into harder-edged Active Rock, when the station flipped formats to Classic rock as "Classic Rock 102.9 WAZU". (In between the flip from Active Rock to Classic Rock, WAZU briefly stunted as "102.9 WZEP-All Led Zeppelin, All The Time"). In 1992, WAZU was sold to Osborn Communications by "Smilin' Bob" Yountz's Champion City Broadcasting, owners of the former WBLY (now WULM), and moved the studios to Dayton. WAZU's studios were originally located in its city of license of Springfield. After then-owner Great Trails Broadcsting dropped the WAZU calls in May 1995, the WAZU calls moved to 107.1 FM, licensed to Circleville, south of Columbus, in late 1996. They also used the "Big WAZU" nickname and Active Rock format, as well as using exactly the same imaging as 102.9 did in early 1993. (That station is now WJYD with an urban gospel format). During this tenure, WAZU competed fiercely with WTUE-FM. The 102.9 frequency changed their calls to WING-FM in May 1995 and continued the Classic Rock format.
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