WYDR
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| City | Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin |
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| Broadcast area | Appleton-Oshkosh, and the Fox Valley of Wisconsin |
| Branding | 94.3 Jack FM |
| Slogan | Playing What We Want |
| Frequency | 94.3 MHz |
| First air date | 1971 (as WROE) |
| Format | Adult Hits |
| ERP | 13,000 watts |
| HAAT | 140 meters (460 ft) |
| Class | C3 |
| Facility ID | 9962 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°9′30.00″N 88°17′3.00″W / 44.1583333°N 88.2841667°WCoordinates: 44°9′30.00″N 88°17′3.00″W / 44.1583333°N 88.2841667°W |
| Callsign meaning | W Y The DRive (former branding) |
| Former callsigns | WROE (1971-2010) |
| Affiliations | Jack FM |
| Owner | Duey E. Wright (Midwest Communications, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WDKF, WGEE, WIXX, WNCY-FM, WNFL, WTAQ-AM/FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 943JackFM.com |
WYDR (94.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Hits music format, licensed to both Neenah and Menasha (giving it and sister station WNCY-FM a rare dual cities of license situation) and transmitting from High Cliff State Park in Northwestern Calumet County, Wisconsin.Jack FM has its studios at Midwest Communications' facilities at 1420 Bellevue St in the Green Bay suburb of Bellevue, Wisconsin, adjacent to the tower site of sister station WNFL.
The station that would eventually become WYDR was launched by Midwest Communications in 1971 under the call sign of WROE with a beautiful music format, a format found quite frequently on FM radio in that era. In 1977, Midwest bought WBAY-AM and WBAY-FM (the current WTAQ and WIXX, respectively), forcing the company to sell WROE due to FCC regulations limiting station ownership at the time. Later ownership would change WROE in the 1980s to the soft AC format that many people would associate with the frequency and its call sign.
In 1997, Midwest repurchased WROE and sister stations WNCY-FM and WNFL after loosening of radio ownership rules the year before. From 1998 to 2001, WROE simulcast on sister station WLTM, with the stations branded as "The Lite FM, 94.3 and 99.7." During this time, WROE and WLTM would add Delilah's nationally syndicated program (though it would eventually drop it later in the 2000s). When WLTM dropped away from the simulcast in March 2001 and launched its own format, WROE reverted to using its call sign for on-air branding.
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