WYUU
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| City | Safety Harbor, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | Tampa, Florida |
| Branding | Maxima FM |
| Slogan | Tu Musica Al Maximo |
| Frequency | 92.5 MHz |
| Translator(s) | 106.9 W295CF (Clearwater; relays HD2) |
| First air date | April 19, 1982 (as WOOT) |
| Format | FM/HD1: Latin Pop HD2: Spanish tropical "106.9 Playa" |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 149 meters |
| Class | C2 |
| Facility ID | 18512 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 27°50′32″N 82°48′52″W / 27.84222°N 82.81444°WCoordinates: 27°50′32″N 82°48′52″W / 27.84222°N 82.81444°W |
| Callsign meaning | sounds like "U" (station's former moniker as an oldies station) |
| Former callsigns | WOOT (4/1982-8/1982) WXCR (1982-1989) |
| Owner |
Beasley Broadcast Group (Beasley Media Group, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WPBB, WHFS, WLLD, WQYK-FM, WRBQ-FM |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Listen Live (HD2) |
| Website |
925maxima.com playatampa.com (HD2) |
WYUU (92.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from Safety Harbor, Florida and serving the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida area. The station airs a Latin Pop format branded as "Maxima FM." Owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, its studios are in St. Petersburg while its transmitter is in Seminole.
After being issued a construction permit, the station signed on the air in August 1982 as WXCR with a classical music format. On September 28, 1989, the station flipped to oldies, branded first as "Oldies 92.5", then later rebranded as "U92." On April 18, 2002, a major change took place at WYUU. Sister station WRBQ-FM (104.7, also known as Q105), which aired a country format at the time, swapped formats with WYUU. This was done at the behest of U92 program director Mason Dixon, who was once a popular personality on Q105 when it was a Top-40 powerhouse throughout the 1980s and wanted to return there (not to mention WRBQ boasts a stronger signal). WYUU thus became a country station and was dubbed "Country 92.5", before rebranding as "Kickass Country, Outlaw Country 92.5." It was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series radio affiliate and also brought The Cowhead Show (morning drive, 6am-10am) over from WRBQ.
However, Outlaw 92.5 found itself as the third country station in a two country station market when Clear Channel’s WTBT flipped to Country as WFUS on April 14, 2005. With sister station WQYK-FM also playing country in the market, it became obvious to many observers that something had to give, particularly with country stations out of Polk County (97.5 WPCV) and Sarasota (106.5 WCTQ) edging into the fringes of the Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater market. Finally, on August 7, 2005, WYUU flipped to a tropical music format following its broadcast of the Indianapolis Brickyard 400 NASCAR race. After three commercials, an announcement told listeners that a new format had come to the signal: "La Nueva 92.5, The Latin Sound of Tampa Bay." It became the second tropical station of Infinity Broadcasting (now CBS Radio) after WLZL in Washington, D.C./Baltimore, which also signed on the same year.
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