WEHM
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{{Infobox radio station
| name = WEHM
| city = Manorville, New York
| country = US
| logo = WEHM_logo_May_2020.png
| logo_upright = .8
| area = {{ubl|Suffolk County, New York|Eastern Long Island|Southeastern Connecticut}}
| frequency = {{Frequency|92.9|MHz}}
| branding = 92-9 and 96-9 'EHM
| languages = English
| format = Adult album alternative
| owner = Lauren and Roger Stone
| licensee = LRS Radio, LLC
| sister_stations = WBAZ, WBEA, WEHN
| founded =
| airdate = {{Start date and age|2003}}
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WCSO (2001–2003)|WWHL (2003)|WHBE (2003)}}
| callsign_meaning = East Hampton
| licensing_authority = FCC
| facility_id = 52059
| class = A
| erp = 3,100 watts
| haat = {{Convert|141|m|ft|sp=us}}
| coordinates = {{Coord|40|51|18|N|72|46|11|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY_source:FCC|name=WEHM|display=inline,title}}
| repeaters = {{Radio Relay|96.9|WEHN|East Hampton}}
| webcast = {{Listen live|url=https://player.amperwave.net/1028}}
| website = {{Official URL}}
| embed_header = Satellite station
| embedded =
{{Infobox radio station
| child = yes
| name = WEHN
| city = East Hampton, New York
| country = US
| frequency = {{Frequency|96.9|MHz}}
| owner = Lauren and Roger Stone
| licensee = LRS Radio, LLC
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1993}} (as 96.7 WEHM)
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WVEH (1990–1991)|WQEH (1991–1992)|WEHM (1992–2003)|WHBE (2003–2006)}}
| former_frequencies = {{Frequency|96.7|MHz}} (1993–2006)
| callsign_meaning = East Hampton
| licensing_authority = FCC
| facility_id = 18218
| class = A
| erp = 4,300
| haat = {{Convert|117|m|ft|sp=us}}
| coordinates = {{Coord|40|59|37|N|72|10|19|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY_source:FCC|name=WEHN}}
}}
}}
WEHM (92.9 FM) is an adult album alternative formatted radio station licensed to Manorville, New York and serving Suffolk County, New York. WEHM's programming is simulcast on WEHN (96.9 FM) East Hampton, New York, the station which originally had been home to WEHM when it was located on 96.7 FM. WEHN's signal covers the eastern Long Island and southeastern Connecticut areas.
The stations were purchased in 2013 for $3.2 million and licensed to LRS Radio, LLC, which is owned by WEHM on-air talent Lauren Stone (68.8%) and her father Roger W. Stone (31.2%), the chairman/CEO of Kapstone Paper & Packaging Company in Northbrook, Illinois,.{{cite web |publisher=Radio Insight |title=LRS Radio Acquires Long Island Cluster |date=December 18, 2013 |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/86992/lrs-radio-acquires-long-island-cluster/ |access-date=October 13, 2017}} Both stations 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 Mickey Shulhof, then Sony America chairman, with minority interest held by such notables as Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley and others.{{cite news |last1=Morris |first1=Bob |title=THE NIGHT; On the Radio, Weee-ooo |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/09/style/the-night-on-the-radio-weee-ooo.html |access-date=October 18, 2020 |work=The New York Times |location=Section 9 |date=May 9, 1993 |page=6 }} The station would sign on with an Adult Contemporary format, later 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, New York. 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 to Manorville.
References
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{{cite web |work=CDBS Public Access Database
|publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=WEHM Call Sign History |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=52059&Callsign=WEHM |access-date=April 17, 2013}}
{{cite web |work=CDBS Public Access Database
|publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=WEHN Call Sign History |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=18218&Callsign=WEHN |access-date=April 17, 2013}}
}}
External links
- {{Official website}}
{{FM station data|52059|WEHM}}
{{FM station data|18218|WEHN}}
{{Long Island Radio |state=expanded}}
Category:1993 establishments in New York (state)
Category:Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States
Category:Mass media in Suffolk County, New York
Category:Radio stations established in 1993