Broadcast area Upstate South Carolina Slogan We Play Everything | Branding 99.5 Chuck FM First air date December 13, 2007 | |
City Greenville, South Carolina Frequency 99.5 MHz FM / 107.3 MHz HD3 | ||
W258CB, known on-air as 99.5 Chuck FM, is an Adult Hits radio station located in Greenville, South Carolina area, simulcasting HD Radio channel 3 of WJMZ-FM 107.3.
History
W258CB began broadcasting at 97.7 FM as W249CB in December 2007 in Six Mile, re-broadcasting WLFJ-FM HD-3, which in turn was a simulcast of WHRZ-LP in Spartanburg, which carried a Christian Contemporary format. In August 2011, the station filed an application to move to Paris Mountain in Greenville, with an upgrade from 190 watts to 250 watts, allowing the station to cover Greenville County, as well as portions of neighboring Pickens and Spartanburg counties. The new location and stronger signal gave the station an impressive coverage area for a translator, helped by the location of the antenna on a mountain. After the request was granted, construction began on the new transmitter site in Greenville. The move was made official in early 2012.
On December 16, 2011, the station began operating from the new site under a construction permit. The religious format, however, did not move with the signal; on that day, 97.7 FM signed on with an Adult Hits format, as 97.7 Chuck FM, "We Play Anything." The station is now under the operation of Cox Radio, who is leasing the signal from Tower Above Media. Cox also owns WJMZ-FM and WHZT in the Greenville/Spartanburg market. W258CB re-broadcasts Chuck FM from WJMZ-HD3. The station claims to play 'everything', with little interruption and commercials, focusing mainly on hits of the 1980s, alongside music from the 1960s through today. The Adult Hits format had previously been heard in the market on WGVC (now WYRD-FM), as "106.3 Charlie FM" from August 2007 until June 2008. Unlike some Adult Hits stations, 97.7 Chuck FM plays no new material; the playlist has a heavy emphasis on the 1970s and 1980s, with some 1990s music included also. An occasional 1960s or early 2000s song is played.
W258CB is not the only "Chuck FM" in South Carolina; WAVF in Charleston carries an adult hits format as "101.7 Chuck FM."
On July 20, 2012, Cox Radio, Inc. announced the sale of W249CB and 22 other stations to Summit Media LLC for $66.25 million. The sale was consummated on May 3, 2013.
On August 19, 2016, Chuck FM moved to 99.5 FM. The translator changed its call sign to W258CB on August 30, 2016, coincident with the issuing of the broadcast license to operate at 99.5 MHz.