WLDE

Radio station in Fort Wayne, Indiana

WLDE

* Fort Wayne, Indiana

Broadcast area| Fort Wayne, Indiana
Frequency| 101.7 MHz
Branding| Classic Hits 101.7
Programming
Format| Classic hits
Ownership
Owner| Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.

Sister stations

| WAJI, WGBJ
History

First air date

| July 1979 (as WEZV)

Former call signs

| WEZV (1979–1990)
WJLT (1990–1994)

Call sign meaning

| W OLDiEs (previous format)
Technical information[1]

Licensing authority

| FCC
Facility ID| 59134
Class| A
ERP| 6,000 watts [2]
HAAT| 100 meters (330 ft)
Links

Public license information

* Public file
* LMS

Webcast| Listen Live
Website| classichits1017.com

WLDE (101.7 FM) is a commercial radio station from Fort Wayne, Indiana, which broadcasts a classic hits format. On-air personalities during the week are Jim and Carrie, Angie Nash, Captain Chris and Mark Evans.

## Station history

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### As WEZV

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The station's original call letters were WEZV from July 1979 to August 1990.[3] WEZV aired a beautiful music format that achieved high ratings in adult demographics in Fort Wayne.

### As WJLT

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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

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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.

In April 2019, WLDE rebranded from "Fun 101.7" to "Classic Hits 101.7", and began focusing more towards rock music to put it in closer competition towards WFWI.[4]

In 2023, 1990s music was slowly being added to the playlist. The stations main competitors are classic rock WXKE and adult hits WWFW.

## Previous logo

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## References

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1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WLDE". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. ^ "WLDE-FM 101.7 MHZ - Fort Wayne, IN".
3. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=59134&Callsign=WLDE [dead link]
4. ^ WLDE Relaunches as Classic Hits 101.7 Radioinsight - April 3, 2019

## External links

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* Official website
*   * Facility details for Facility ID 59134 (WLDE) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
* WLDE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

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* t
* e

Radio stations in the Fort Wayne, Indiana and Defiance, Ohio areas

By AM frequency|

* 1090
* 1190
* 1250
* 1280
* 1300
* 1380
* 1450
* 1520
* 1570

By FM frequency|

* 88.3
* 89.1
* 90.3
* 90.9
* 91.1
* 91.5
* 91.9
* 92.3
* 93.3
* 94.1
* 95.1
* 96.3
* 97.3
* 98.1
* 98.9
* 100.1
* 100.9
* 101.1
* 101.7
* 102.3
* 102.9
* 103.1
* 103.9
* 105.1
* 105.7
* 106.3
* 106.7
* 107.9

| LPFM|

* 92.9
* 95.5
* 95.7
* 100.5
* 101.3
* 102.7

|

Translators|

* 88.7
* 89.7
* 93.7
* 96.5
* 96.9
* 99.5
* 100.9
* 103.3
* 104.3
* 105.5
* 107.5

Digital radio
by frequency & subchannel|

* 97.3-1
* 97.3-2
* 97.3-3

By call sign|

* W204BF
* W209AW
* W229CO
* W243DP
* W245CA
* W258BY
* W265CY
* W277AK
* W282CH
* W288EI
* W298BJ
* WAJI
* WBCL
* WBNO
* WBOI
* WBTU
* WBYR
* WBZQ
* WCYT
* WDCM-LP
* WDFM
* WELT-LP
* WFCV
* WFCV-FM
* WFGA
* WFWI
* WGBJ
* WGBE
* WGDE
* WGL
* WGLL
* WIOE
* WIOE-FM
* WJCI
* WJFX
* WJHS
* WKJG
* WLAB
* WLDE
* WMEE
* HD2
* HD3
* WMYW-LP
* WNDH
* WNHE-LP
* WONW
* WOOO-LP
* WOWO
* WQCT
* WQHK-FM
* WQSW-LP
* WRDF
* WRNP
* WWFW
* WXKE
* WZOM

Defunct|

* WKJH-LP (103.5 FM)

Nearby regions
Chicago
Cincinnati
Columbus
Detroit
Indianapolis
Kalamazoo
Lima/Findlay
Muncie–Marion
South Bend
South Central Michigan
Toledo

See also
List of radio stations in Indiana
List of radio stations in Ohio

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Classic Hits radio stations in Indiana

By frequency|

* 1140
* 1270
* 1460
* 1550
* 1570
* 1580

* 90.7
* 91.7
* 97.7
* 98.3
* 98.7
* 101.7
* 102.3
* 102.7
* 102.9
* 103.9
* 104.5
* 104.9
* 105.5
* 106.1
* 107.1
* 107.3
* 107.9

By callsign|

* WAMW-FM
* WASK-FM
* WAWK
* WBOW
* WCLS
* WCVL
* WERK
* WILO
* WJCP
* WJJK
* WJPR
* WJPS
* WKPW
* WLDE
* WLHM
* WLPK
* WQRK
* WRSW-FM
* WWFW
* WWWY
* WXCH
* WXGO
* WYMR

By city|

* Battle Ground
* Bedford
* Boonville
* Columbus
* Connersville
* Crawfordsville
* Culver
* Fort Wayne (WLDE)
* Fort Wayne (WWFW)
* Frankfort
* Jasper
* Kendallville
* Knightstown
* Logansport
* Madison
* Muncie
* Noblesville
* North Vernon (WJCP)
* North Vernon (WWWY)
* Spencer
* Terre Haute
* Warsaw
* Washington

See also
adult contemporary
classic hits
college
country
news/talk
NPR
oldies
religious
rock
sports
top 40
urban
other radio stations in Indiana

See also
Oldies
Classic Hits

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Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.

AM radio stations|

* WGCL (AM)

FM radio stations|

* WAJI
* WGBJ
* WLDE
* WTTS

Television stations|

* KTVN (CBS
* Reno, Nevada)
* WRCB (NBC
* Chattanooga, Tennessee)

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