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{{Infobox Radio station
|name               = WECB
|image              = 
|city               = [[Seymour, Wisconsin]]
|area               = [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]], [[Appleton, Wisconsin|Appleton]], and [[Northeastern Wisconsin]]
|branding           = TBD
|slogan             = 104-3 Chuck FM
|frequency          = 104.3 [[FM]] [[Megahertz|MHz]]
|translator         = 
|repeater           = W278AU (103.5 FM) Green Bay)
|airdate            = 
|share              = 
|share as of        = 
|share source       = 
|format             = [[adult hits]]
|language           = 
|power              = 
|erp                = 5,600 [[watt|watts]]
|haat               = 104 [[meter|meters]]
|class              = A
|facility_id        = 7120
|coordinates        = 
|callsign_meaning   = '''E'''arl and '''C'''arol '''B'''rooker (station founders and former owners)
|former_callsigns   = 
|former_frequencies = 
|affiliations       = 
|owner              = [[Woodward Communications, Inc.]]
|licensee           = 
|sister_stations    = [[WAPL]], [[WHBY]], [[WKSZ]], [[WSCO]], [[WZOR]]
|webcast            = [http://wmc1.den.liquidcompass.net/WECBFM Listen Live]
|website            = [http://www.chuckfmonline.com/ www.chuckfmonline.com/]
}}

'''WECB''' (104.3 [[FM broadcasting|FM]]) is a [[radio station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Seymour, Wisconsin]], that serves the [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]] and [[Appleton, Wisconsin|Appleton]] areas. The station is owned by Woodward Communications, and is simulcast on W278AU (103.5 FM), which covers areas of Green Bay (including downtown) where the 104.3 signal can be hard to reach.

The station launched in the Spring of 1998 under the ownership of Earl Brooker and his wife, Carol.  Earl Brooker was a local businessman, politician, and long-time Fox Cities radio personality (he worked the 5:30-9:00 morning shift on WECB).  Under the Brookers' ownership, WECB featured a 1970s music format, and also featured broadcasts of [[Green Bay Gamblers]] hockey and [[Wisconsin Timber Rattlers]] baseball.

[[File:WECB.jpg|180px|left|thumb|104.3 The Breeze logo, circa 2009]][[File:WoodwardStudios_Appleton_WHBY_WZOR_WAPL_WECB_.jpg|180px|left|thumb|Studios of WECB and Woodward Communications]]On April 1, 2003, the Brookers sold WECB to [[Dubuque, Iowa]]-based Woodward Communications, with the station joining Woodward's Northeast Wisconsin radio cluster (see Infobox).  By July 2003, Woodward would change WECB's format to Soft Adult Contemporary as "104.3 The Breeze, Northeast Wisconsin's Lite Rock."  "The Breeze" schedule included the [[John Tesh]] Radio Show (Monday-Saturday mornings).

WECB is also noted as annually airing [[Christmas|all-Christmas music]] during the months of November and December.  The station is currently continuing its holiday theme post-Christmas, with a message on the station website promising "one more gift" will be opened for listeners at 3PM on December 31, 2009.  The "gift," based on local speculation, will be a new [[adult hits]] format branded as "Chuck FM," with possible new call letters of WCHK-FM.[http://www.wisconsinbroadcasting.com/pages/posts/wecb-to-become-wchk305.php]  A website for the new format is displayed at [http://chuckfm.dminteractive.com/ this web address] (its displayed URL, chuckfmonline.com, redirects to the Breeze website).

At 3:00 pm local time, WECB changed their Christmas format to [[adult hits]] called themselves "Chuck FM". The last song to be played on 104.3 The Breeze was [[Gayla Peevey]]'s [[I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas]] and the first song to be played on 104-3 Chuck FM was [[Rolling Stone]]'s [[Start Me Up]].

== External links ==
*[http://www.1043thebreeze.com/ "104.3 The Breeze" official website]
*{{FM station data|WECB}}

{{Green Bay Radio}}
{{Appleton-Oshkosh Radio}}
{{Adult Contemporary Radio Stations in Wisconsin}}

[[Category:Radio stations in Wisconsin|ECB]]