WGFE
| City |
WGFM: Cheboygan, Michigan WGFE: Glen Arbor, Michigan |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area |
WGFM: Petoskey, Michigan WGFE: Traverse City |
| Branding | Rock 105 & 95.5 |
| Slogan | We Just Rock |
| Frequency |
WGFM: 105.1 MHz WGFE: 95.5 MHz |
| Translator(s) | 103.7 W279CC (Alpena) |
| First air date |
WGFM: August 15, 1968 (as WCBY-FM) WGFE: September 1, 1997 (as WJZJ) |
| Format | Active rock |
| ERP |
WGFM: 43,000 watts WGFE: 21,000 watts |
| HAAT |
WGFM: 295 meters WGFE: 225 meters |
| Class |
WGFM: C1 WGFE: C2 |
| Facility ID |
WGFM: 56073 WGFE: 15631 |
| Callsign meaning | WGFM: Gold FM (former name) WGFE: similar to WGFM |
| Former callsigns |
WGFM: WCBY-FM (1968-09/13/1982) WQLZ (09/13/1982-02/10/1989) WGFE: WTHM (04/13/1989-05/19/1992) DWTHM (05/19/1992-08/10/1995) WTHM (08/10/1995-3/31/1997) WJZJ (3/31/1997-04/01/2013) WQEZ (04/01/2013-03/17/2017) |
| Owner | Black Diamond Broadcasting |
| Sister stations | WCBY, WCHY, WGFN, WQEZ, WMKC, WTWS, WUPS |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | rock105.fm |
WGFM (105.1 FM) in Cheboygan, Michigan and WGFE (95.5 FM) in Glen Arbor, Michigan are American radio station that air a mainstream rock format branded as Rock 105 & 95.5. WGFM boasts a 43,000-watt signal which easily covers most of northern Lower Michigan from Grayling northward and extends into the eastern Upper Peninsula. WGFE's signal serves primarily the immediate Traverse City area and carries across the waters of Lake Michigan, and can frequently be heard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and the eastern shoreline of Door County, Wisconsin. Rock 105 & 95.5 is also heard on translator W279CC (103.7 FM) in Alpena.
Current on-air talent at WGFM/WGFE include morning drive host Brian "Cartman" Pfeifer, and DJs Jay Roberts, Nate "Smitty" Smith, Sam Lee, and "NASCAR" Steve. Smith and "NASCAR" Steve are also DJs at WGFM's sister stations WGFN & WCHY, which simulcast as Classic Rock: The Bear. Each January, WGFM hosts a 12 hour marathon of Metallica music entitled the Metallica-Thon, which debuted on WGFE (then WJZJ) in 2009 shortly before entering into the first WGFM simulcast.
WGFM originally began in 1968 as WCBY-FM, and aired beautiful music at first until switching to a simulcast of WCBY-AM. In 1982, the station became WQLZ, and began airing a CHR format to try and compete with WKHQ and WJML, but did not have the signal to compete with the two.
In 1989, longtime northern Michigan radio personality and engineer Del Reynolds and wife Mary purchased 100,000 watt CHR WQLZ (formerly WCBY-FM) in Cheboygan. Shortly afterward, he changed the station's format to classic rock with the WGFM call letters, meaning "W-Gold-FM". The station's main focus was classic rock, but also played new cuts from classic rock artists as well. The station was live/local 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. and aired Westwood One's Adult Rock format overnights. Reynolds was the station's morning drive host at that time.
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