WUUB
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| City | Jupiter, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Ft. Pierce-Stuart |
| Branding | ESPN 106.3 |
| Frequency | 106.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1994 (as WJBW) |
| Format | Sports |
| ERP | 19,000 watts |
| HAAT | 114 meters |
| Class | C3 |
| Facility ID | 24143 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°47′59.00″N 80°4′33.00″W / 26.7997222°N 80.0758333°W |
| Callsign meaning |
W "U U B" (reference to previous station moniker) |
| Former callsigns | WADY (1993-1994) WJBW (1994-1997) WJBW-FM (1997-2007) WNEW-FM (2007-2011) WHFS (2011-2012) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner | Good Karma Broadcasting, LLC |
| Sister stations | WEFL |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | espnwestpalm.com |
WUUB (106.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format, simulcasting WEFL 760 AM Tequesta, Florida. Licensed to serve Jupiter, Florida, USA, the station is currently owned by Good Karma Broadcasting, LLC. The station is also broadcast on HD radio. The stations studios are in West Palm Beach and the transmitter tower is in Riviera Beach.
Prior to January 2007, 106.3 FM was known as WJBW, and between January 2007 and December 2011, it was known as WNEW-FM. Despite these call letter changes, the station's branding remained "B106.3".
The WNEW call letters were formerly the call letters for New York City radio stations WNEW AM (now WBBR) and WNEW-FM, as well as New York City television station WNEW-TV (now WNYW). CBS Radio, who also owns WWFS, "warehoused" the WNEW calls to WJBW in January 2007.
On December 1, 2011, WNEW changed their call letters to WHFS, in effect doing the same "warehousing" move for those call letters, which were tied to long-running alternative rock stations in three different incarnations in the Baltimore and Washington, DC markets in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. As with the case with WNEW-FM, the station kept the "B106.3" branding under WHFS.
On April 10, 2012, CBS Radio announced that it was selling WHFS and its sister stations to Palm Beach Broadcasting for $50 million, pending FCC approval. The station's Urban Adult Contemporary format and airstaff will be retained under the new owners; however, under the terms of the deal, the WHFS call sign will remain within the ownership of CBS Radio, requiring the station to change its call letters once more. In addition, the station, as well as WAXY-FM, will be spun off to comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership rules. The WHFS call letters were moved to former sister station WSJT on August 2, 2012, as that station launched a new sports talk format. B106.3 adopted the new WUUB call letters on the same day.
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