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Website
  
www.wehm.com

City of license
  
Manorville

Owner
  
Lauren and Roger Stone

Sister stations
  
WBAZ, WBEA

Frequency
  
92.9 FM

Format
  
Adult album alternative

Branding
  
92-9 and 96-9 'EHM

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Broadcast area
  
eastern Long Island, southeast Connecticut, southwest Rhode Island

Slogan
  
Progressive Radio for Long Island

Webcast
  
Listen Live Listen Live (via TuneIn)

Area
  
Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island

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WEHM (92.9 FM) is an Adult album alternative formatted radio station that is licensed to Manorville, New York and serves eastern Long Island. It broadcasts from a tower in Quogue, New York. WEHM's programming is simulcast on WEHN (96.9 FM) East Hampton, the station which originally had been home to WEHM when it was located on 96.7 MHz. WEHN's signal covers the easternmost parts of Long Island as well as a rimshot signal into the New London-Groton, Connecticut and Westerly, Rhode Island areas.

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Both stations are owned by Lauren and Roger Stone, through licensee LRS Radio, LLC, and broadcast from studios in Water Mill, New York alongside sister stations WBAZ and WBEA.

History

WEHM signed on in 1993 at 96.7 MHz licensed in East Hampton to East Hampton Broadcasting. Its ownership was made up of majority owners Leonard Ackerman, a local attorney and than Sony America Chairman Mickey Shulhof with minority interest held by such notables as Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley and others The station would sign on with an Adult Contemporary format and changing to a AAA format which proved very successful.

In 2000, then-owner AAA Entertainment obtained a construction permit for a new FM station at 92.9 MHz licensed to Southampton. After several years of planning and development, the 92.9 frequency would sign on in June 2003 and would become WEHM's permanent home that July. At that time, the 96.7 frequency took the WHBE calls and took on a Bloomberg Radio format (a move reportedly done by the influence of Michael Bloomberg).

The two WEHMs would be united in April 2006 when WHBE quietly moved up the dial from 96.7 to 96.9 MHz and began to simulcast WEHM's programming. WHBE changed their call letters to WEHN.

On June 24, 2008, the FCC approved a change in WEHM's community of license from Southampton, NY to Manorville, NY.

References

WEHM Wikipedia