WHNN
| City | Bay City, Michigan |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Saginaw-Bay City-Midland |
| Branding | My 96.1 |
| Slogan | The Best Variety From Yesterday And Today |
| Frequency | 96.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1947 (as WBCM-FM) |
| Format |
Adult Contemporary Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 311 meters |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 37458 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°33′10″N 83°41′24″W / 43.55278°N 83.69000°W |
| Former callsigns | WBCM-FM (1947-1973) |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WILZ, WIOG, WKQZ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | my961.com |
WHNN is an FM radio station serving the Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and Flint, Michigan areas. It broadcasts on FM frequency 96.1 and is under ownership of Cumulus Media. The station's powerful 100,000-watt frequency blankets a large chunk of the central and eastern Lower Peninsula, from Mount Pleasant to the Thumb and from Pontiac to West Branch, but its signal toward the southwest is inhibited by co-channel WMAX-FM in Holland, Michigan.
WBCM-FM was one of Michigan's pioneer FM stations, initially signing on in 1947. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, 96.1 FM broadcast a beautiful music format. On August 27, 1973 the calls were changed to WHNN and the station adopted a Top 40 format as "Super Win." Many listeners remember that for several years, WHNN boasted "a winner an hour, sometimes even more". At least once an hour they would award a prize to a designated caller, and announce the current tally of prizes awarded by giving the winners name, hometown and announcing that he or she was "super-Win winner number 12,384 or whatever number the current count was. Many of the prizes were fast food meals or car washes, but occasionally better prizes such as concert tickets or meals at high end restaurants were awarded. When the hourly prizes were phased out in 1979, WHNN announced it was in "the interest of public safety" as they didn't want to overwhelm the phone company's resources.
WHNN evolved into an AOR station in 1976. In 1981, despite being the top rated station in the area at the time, the station changed format from AOR to adult contemporary, with the first song being Gino Vannelli's "Living Inside Myself". Station owners stated at the time that this was because they could not sell enough ad time. As a popular AC station during the 1980s, the station was known as "Sunny 96, Lite Rock, Less Talk."
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