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Broadcast area
  
Fort Wayne, Indiana

HAAT
  
100 meters

Frequency
  
101.7 MHz

Format
  
Classic hits

Area
  
Fort Wayne

ERP
  
3,000 watts

Facility ID
  
59134

City of license
  
Fort Wayne

Owner
  
Sarkes Tarzian Inc

Branding
  
Fun 101.7

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First air date
  
July 1979 (as WEZV) March 31, 1994 (as WLDE)

Callsign meaning
  
W OLDiEs (previous format)

Slogan
  
Classic Hits of the 70s and 80s

WLDE is an FM radio station from Fort Wayne, Indiana, which broadcasts a classic hits format. The station operates on the FM radio frequency of 101.7 MHz. Popular personalities during the week are "Jim and Carrie," "Captain Chris," and "Dr. Dave."

Contents

As WEZV

The station's original call letters were WEZV from July 1979 to August 1990. WEZV aired a beautiful music format that achieved high ratings in adult demographics in Fort Wayne.

As WJLT

The station's second call letters were WJLT from August 1990 to March 1994. WJLT, "Lite 101.7," was an effort to evolve the station's beautiful music format to soft adult contemporary, which met with only limited success due to competitor WAJI 95.1's massive ratings with its AC format.

As WLDE

As WLDE, it originally broadcast oldies music, but slowly evolved into a classic hits format as their main playlist dropped pre-1964 music in favor of music up to 1979. Beginning in 2008, 1980s music was added to the playlist as 1960s music slowly began getting phased out.

References

WLDE Wikipedia