WHAK-FM

WHAK-FM (99.9 FM, "The Wave") is a radio station licensed to Rogers City, Michigan with studios in Alpena. The Station plays classic hits of the 1980s and 1990s. It has a local weekday-morning show and airs Westwood One's Classic Hits/Pop format the remainder of the time.

WHAK-FM

City	Rogers City, Michigan
Broadcast area
Frequency	99.9 MHz
Branding	99-9 The Wave
Slogan	Retro Hits
Programming
Format	Classic Hits
Affiliations	Classic Hits (Westwood One) Michigan IMG Sports Network
Ownership
Owner	Edwards Communications
History
First air date	circa 1994 (as WELG)
Former call signs	WELG (2/1/94-4/1/97)
Call sign meaning	Harvey A. Klann (original owner)
Technical information
Facility ID	29289
Class	C2
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	145 meters
Links
Website	truenorthradionetwork.com

Prior to April 1999, the station broadcast a satellite-fed country format as "Eagle 100" (with the call sign WELG from 1994 to 1997). The move to the oldies format helped to fill a void in the Northeast Michigan radio scene left when 92.5 WAIR (now WFDX) switched from oldies to country music.

WHAK-FM is owned by Edwards Communications along with WHSB-FM 107.7 in Alpena, and WWTH-FM 100.7 in Oscoda. Sister station WHAK-AM 960 is leased to Michigan Broadcasters, LLC and is a simulcast of WYPV of Mackinaw City.

AM 960 WHAK was a longtime full service adult contemporary/MOR station serving Rogers City and Presque Isle County. By 1999, the station was airing a mostly automated gold-based country format, still as a standalone. WHAK went off the air in November 2000 and returned almost a year later with talk programming, mainly from the Michigan Talk Radio Network, dubbing itself "Your Information Source in the North." This continued until the station became a simulcast of the new "Thunder Country" WWTH Oscoda in April 2005. In the summer of 2012, WHAK-AM was noted simulcasting WHAK-FM rather than WWTH.

The WHAK calls stand for the station's original owner, Harvey A. Klann. Klann is a lifelong resident of Rogers City and World War 2 veteran.