WAYZ (FM)

WAYZ is an country music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, serving "Four-State" area (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia).

WAYZ

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania United States
Broadcast area	South Central Pennsylvania Western Maryland Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia
Frequency	101.5 MHz
Branding	101.5 WAYZ
Programming
Format	Country music
Ownership
Owner	M. Belmont Verstandig, Inc.
Sister stations	WLIN, WIKG
History
First air date	1959; 66 years ago (1959)
Former call signs	WAYZ-FM (1959–2000) WWMD (2000–2005) WEEG (2005–2005) WFYN (2005–2009) WBHB-FM (2009–2025)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	27401
Class	B
ERP	50,000 watts (horizontal) 48,000 watts (vertical)
HAAT	70 meters (230 ft)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.wayz.com

WAYZ is owned and operated by M. Belmont Verstandig, Inc.

History

Beginning in the late 1970s, then-WAYZ 101.5 FM was a country-formatted station.

VerStandig bought FM 104.7 from John Staub (Hagerstown Broadcasting) and moved the WAYZ country format there in 2000, leaving it with FM 101.5; it broadcast an audio CNN headline news format for three weeks.^{[citation needed]}

Top 40 "Magic 101.5" debuted in October 2000, and operated until February 27, 2005. This returned the format for the first time since WIKZ changed to adult contemporary in 1992.

On February 27 of that year, Hagerstown-based WARX flipped to classic hits as "106.9 The Eagle", a few hours before Verstandig flipped WWMD to classic rock as "Eagle 101.5" with the callsign WEEG.^[2] After a few days of dueling "Eagle"s, WWMD ceded the branding, briefly going with "The New 101.5".^[3] The following week, it became "Classic Rock 101.5" with the callsign WFYN. Local media observers noted the similarity of the new callsign, which had no obvious meaning, to a profane insult ("fuck you, Nassau") over the branding conflict.^[4][5]

On September 17, 2007, WFYN flipped from classic rock to active rock as Rock 101.5.

On March 16, 2009, WFYN became WBHB-FM and changed its Rock 101.5 branding to 101.5 Bob Rocks; it continues to broadcast an active rock format.

In August 2025, Verstanding Media announced that WBHB-FM active rock format will move to 92.1 on September 1, and WAYZ country format will move back to the old 101.5 on September 15 since 2000.