City Willard, Ohio Slogan "Faith With Frequency" First air date December 25, 2013 | Branding Annunciation Radio Frequency 90.9 mHz | |
Broadcast area Willard, Norwalk and Huron County, Ohio with the Shiloh and Shelby areas north of Mansfield | ||
WSHB "Annunciation Radio" is a radio station in Willard, Ohio at 90.9 FM purchased from the Mansfield Christian School by Our Lady of Guadelupe Radio Inc. in September 2013.
According to its website, WSHB made its on-air debut on Christmas Day of Wednesday December 25, 2013 as a repeater of originating station WNOC 89.7 MHz licensed to Bowling Green, Ohio with main studios and offices in Toledo, Ohio. Up until FCC permission was granted of the sale of WSHB to Annunciation Radio on December 23, 2013, WSHB originally existed only as a construction permit issued by the FCC to the Mansfield Christian School, the owners of WVMC-FM 90.7 in Mansfield.
The announcement of WSHB becoming the fourth station of Annunciation's regional network was made in its Fall 2013 Frequency newsletter The link to the newsletter can be found at its website. The WSHB signal is planned to serve the Norwalk, Bellevue, Attica, New Washington, New London, Shiloh and Shelby areas not covered by sister stations WFOT and WHRQ, thus making it the sixth Catholic station in the Toledo Diocese.
Annunciation Radio airs Catholic programming from EWTN Global Catholic Radio and from Ave Maria Radio based at WDEO (AM) in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Callsign history
The WSHB callsign was previously used from 1988 to 2004 at a shortwave station owned by Herald Broadcasting, a unit of the Christian Science Church which was sold in 2004 to LeSea Broadcasting and is now WHRI located at Cypress Creek, South Carolina. WHRI previously broadcast from a transmitter site near Noblesville, Indiana which is also home to LeSea-owned WHMB-TV.