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| Broadcast area | Dayton, Ohio |
| Frequency | 92.1MHz |
| Branding | 92.1 WROU |
| Programming | |
| Format | Urban adult contemporary |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
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| History | |
First air date | 1991 |
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Call sign meaning | "We Are Ohio's U-92" (former branding) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 26451 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 1,050 watts |
| HAAT | 163 meters (535 ft) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
WROU-FM (92.1MHz) is anurban adult contemporary radio station licensed toWest Carrollton, Ohio, serving theDayton area and owned and operated byConnoisseur Media. WROU is Dayton's affiliate of TheSteve Harvey Morning Show.[2] Its studios are located inKettering, Ohio (with a Dayton address), and its transmitter is in west Dayton.
WROU was founded by Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders, an educator and dancer who was once an on-air personality atWDAO, in 1991. At the start, it was a typical locally owned mainstream urban with live airstaffers untilRadio One purchased the station in 2003, after several years of resisting offers to sell the outlet and to fight off bankruptcy.[3] Since the sale of WROU Hawes-Saunders continued to work with theDayton Contemporary Dance Company as its executive director and serves as a board member of Parents Advancing Choice in Education, Inc. (PACE), which was formed in 1998 to help assist families who seek to exercise education choice for their children while helping schools adopt strategies for improvement. Her life as a radio station owner was also profiled in 2009 in the syndicated television series "Lifestyles with Rebecca".[4]
After Radio One took over the ownership of WROU, it adjusted the format to anurban AC presentation due to havingWDHT (whose signal and coverage is much larger than WROU) taking the younger demos with its R&B/hip-hop heavy rhythmic product. WROU was briefly known as WRNB after the sale, but reverted to the original calls in 2004. WRNB was originally at 96.9 FM and licensed to Troy as satellite-formatted "Solid Gold Soul" and was at one time the sister station to WROU, which is nowAir1 stationWYDA. TheWRNB calls are now used for Radio One's urban AC FM station in Philadelphia.
On May 17, 2007, Philadelphia-based Main Line Broadcasting announced the acquisition of Radio One's stations in the Dayton andLouisville market areas.[5] Main Line took over the Dayton stations on September 14, 2007.[6] Main Line would be acquired byAlpha Media in 2014.[7] Alpha Media merged withConnoisseur Media on September 4, 2025.[8]
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