WYDB
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| City | Englewood, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Dayton, Ohio |
| Branding | B945 |
| Slogan | Dayton's Hot Country |
| Frequency | 94.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1992 (as WZJX) |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 3,600 watts |
| HAAT | 130 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 55501 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°49′3.00″N 84°14′53.00″W / 39.8175000°N 84.2480556°W |
| Former callsigns | WZJX (1992-1994) WDOL (1994-1996) WBTT (1996-2000) WDKF (2000-2011) WLQT (2011-2013) |
| Owner | Aloha Station Trust, LLC (operated by iHeartMedia) |
| Sister stations | WCHD, WRZX, WMMX, WONE, WTUE, WZDA |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | B 94.5 |
WYDB (94.5 FM, "B94.5") is a radio station broadcasting a Country Music format. Licensed to Englewood, Ohio, United States, the station serves the Dayton area. The station is currently owned and operated by Aloha Station Trust. Its studios are located in Kettering, Ohio (with a Dayton address) and its transmitter is in west Dayton.
WYDB was originally given the call sign WKET in 1962 airing classical music from a basement studio at the former Hills and Dales Shopping Center. The station failed to attract a sizable listening audience (AM was the dominant band at that time) and was later sold to the University of Dayton in 1964 and changed the call letters to WVUD (for the "Voice of the University of Dayton"). The WKET calls are now used at 98.3 FM in Kettering.
In the 1970s WVUD became Dayton's first album oriented rock station, providing an alternative to Top 40-formatted WING. The station leveraged a 50,000-watt transmitter and a 500-foot tower (situated on Stuart Hill, the highest point on the university's campus) allowing the station's signal to reach well into eastern Indiana and northern Kentucky, gaining a wide and extremely loyal listening audience in the tri-state area. While the station's management, programmers and sales staff were all seasoned radio professionals, the air staff consisted solely of University of Dayton students. From the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, WVUD's General Manager was University of Dayton Communication Arts Department Chairman George Biersack. Biersack hired former WVUD staffer and UD grad Chris Cage (Caggiano) from WING as the station's Program Director and Biersack's marching orders for Cage were to "grab the 18- to 34-year-olds" but to "avoid that WING sound". Cage's Music Director was Kevin Carroll, who went on to work for several major record labels. Cage was succeeded by Geoff Vargo, and Carroll was replaced by Dan Covey, who later landed at WING.
In its heyday (the mid-to-late 1970s), WVUD-FM competed with WTUE-FM for dominance of the Dayton market. Utilizing a strategy of first-to-market "breaking" of new songs, a vast collection of record albums, and a lengthy song-rotation schedule (to keep the sound "fresh"), the station competed on its diversity of music and the disc jockeys' knowledge of artists and bands. The station enjoyed stature and cache sufficient that touring major rock acts, such as Jackson Browne, Shawn Phillips, and Billy Joel, were interviewed live in-studio. Students staffed on-air slots and handled news and sports programming content as well. Over the years, WVUD air personalities such as Steve Wendell, Dan Covey, Art Farkas, Alan McConnell, Dan Pugh (later known as Dan Patrick), Bill Andres, Bill Pugh, "Dolby" Joe Reiling, Steve Downes, Lou Chelekis, Rich Wieser (The Weezer), Patty Spittler, Michael Luczak, Mary Kuzan, Steve Kerrigan, Jim Tobin (Yost), Keith Wright, Sandy Huff, Dave McGuire (Vadnais), Jim Biggins, Joe Rittman, Dan Ross, and Mark Zona competed successfully with much more experienced radio pros in the Dayton market. After graduation, many WVUD "alumni" went on to attain significant professional career success in radio nationwide.
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