WWDE-FM
Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". WWDE-FM (101.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Hampton, Virginia, and serving the Hampton Roads area. WWDE-FM airs an adult contemporary radio format. he station is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc.[1]
WWDE-FM has studios and offices on Clearfield Avenue in Virginia Beach, and its transmitter is off East Indian River Road in Norfolk.
History
The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1962, owned by Dick Lamb, Larry Saunders and Gene Loving.[2] During the 1970s, it was co-owned with WVEC (1490 AM, now WXTG) and WVEC-TV. Its call letters were WVHR, and it aired a middle of the road music format, sometimes simulcast with its AM sister station. Its longtime adult contemporary format started on July 31, 1978, with Lamb and sidekick Paul Richardson hosting the "2WD Breakfast Bunch" until January 28, 2005. Both have moved to rival WTWV-FM.[3]
In May 1987, a WWDE overnight DJ, Debbie Dicus, was murdered in broad daylight while tending to her garden in a public park in Hampton. Her tragic murder is noted on a Forensic Files episode, "Garden of Evil".[4]
On December 26, 2006, WWDE shifted to soft adult contemporary, but retained the "2WD" moniker.[5] On April 1, 2013, WWDE shifted back to mainstream adult contemporary, and rebranded as "The New 101.3 2WD".
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