Technical Profile: WBOE

FM Technical Profile: WBOE

Station Name:: The Bone
Frequency:: 97.7
Format:: Rock and Alternative Rock
Transmitter Location:: [map] On the Washington/Bay county line just went of the Fountain Community. East of Hammond Lake, south of Owenwood Rd. Co-located with WPAP-FM and WFSY-FM.
Power (ERP):: 100 kW
Antenna:: Omni
Antenna HAAT:: 830 feet
Other Information:: 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.

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PS-97X PAMANA CITY's ROCK STATION (note: misspelling is confirmed!)
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Text-PANAMA CITY's ROCK STATION 97X
PTY-Rock
PI-WYYX-FM

// WBON Destin-Fort Walton Beach, FL

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Owner:: JVC Broadcasting
History:: Originally owned by Townsend Broadcasting as WTBB (Townsend Broadcasting Bonifay), a strictly local small town station with a mostly automated format. Received permission to do an upgrade to become a full power station, serving Panama City and most of Dothan in 1993. In 1997 became WYYX and around that time it may have switched to an active rock format as "97.7 The Pirate".

The station fell silent in August 2016 when lighting struck the tower and severely damaged the transmission line and antenna. Shortly thereafter, Magic Broadcasting moved the format to sister station 100.1, formerly WVVX. That station took the WYYX calls in November 2016. The station remained silent until mid-March 2017, when the rock format and WYYX calls moved back to this frequency.

In late June 2025 it was announced that Magic Broadcasting sold all its Panama City stations — this station, WWLY "Wild Willy 100.1" Panama City Beach, "News Talk 101" WYOO Springfield and "Island 106" WILN Panama City — to JVC Broadcasting, who already owns stations in the Fort Walton Beach market. In late August 2025, they applied to change the call sign to WBOE whenever the sale closes. Shortly afterward, it was announced that the station would begin simulcasting JVC's Destin-based " 92.1 The Bone", with some WYYX personalities making the move to the new simulcast. The simulcast began on 29 August 2025, and was expected to lead into a week of commercial-free music on both stations.