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| Broadcast area | Fort Walton Beach–Emerald Coast |
| Frequency | 92.1MHz |
| Branding | 92.1 The Bone |
| Programming | |
| Format | Mainstream rock |
| Ownership | |
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| WHWY,WWAV,WZLB | |
| History | |
First air date | 1981; 44 years ago (1981) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "Bone" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 19475 |
| Class | C3 |
| ERP | 19,000 watts |
| HAAT | 115 meters (377 ft) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | 921thebone |
WBON (92.1MHz) is acommercial radio stationlicensed toDestin, Florida, and servingFort Walton Beach and theEmerald Coast. Owned and operated byJVC Broadcasting, it features amainstream rock radio format.
WBON has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 19,000 watts, itstransmitter is off Hollywood Boulevard NW in Fort Walton Beach.
The stationsigned on the air in 1981 as WMMK. In 2004, thecall sign changed to WWRK, and changed again the following year to WFFY. The station has served the area as a Rhythmic Top 40 station since then, at first branded as "Fly 92.1". On December 21, 2011, station owner Quantum Broadcasting sold its stations in the Ft. Walton Beach market, including WFFY, to Apex Broadcasting. On February 17, 2012, at 5 pmCST after playing "Stay Fly" byThree 6 Mafia, Apex dropped theFly 92.1 branding and relaunched WFFY as CHR "Q92", withKelly Clarkson'sStronger the first song played. The call sign was later changed to WECQ to reflect the change in branding.
Apex Broadcasting sold WECQ – along with sister stationsWHWY,WWAV, andWZLB — to Community Broadcasters effective December 1, 2016, at a purchase price of $5.9 million.
On December 22, 2020, Community Broadcasters sold the entire Fort Walton Beach cluster toJVC Broadcasting for almost $2.3 million, which later closed on February 1, 2021.[2]
On August 24, 2021, WECQ went jockless and began promoting that "changes" would be coming to the station on September 1 at noon. At that time, after again playingStronger by Kelly Clarkson (as a near-bookend to the format's launch), followed by "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" byGreen Day, the station changed their format to active rock, branded as "Rock 92.1"; the format had been revealed by JVC on the 30th of the month, and carries a typical active rock playlist, along with a decent amount of guitar-based alternative rock crossover songs, withFoo Fighters (whose song "Monkey Wrench" was the first under the new format),Van Halen,Mammoth WVH,Shinedown,The Offspring,Led Zeppelin andIncubus listed as artists to be heard.[3][4]
On December 20, 2024, at 10 am, WECQ rebranded as "92.1 The Bone"; the station changed its call sign to WBON effective January 27, 2025.[5]
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