We are an FAA and EASA certified part 145 repair station and hold several other government approvals. Since 2015, we have expanded our line maintenance locations to include Washington-Dulles Int’l (IAD), Baltimore / Washington Int’l (BWI), Las Vegas McCarren Int’l (LAS), Chicago-Rockford Int’l (RFD), and Barbados – Grantley Adams Int’l. We are now the largest commercial line maintenance provider in the Chicago area, providing technical handling, aircraft de-icing, and limited ground handling for over 25 Domestic and International Airlines at O’Hare Int’l Airport. It was in 2005 that the station changed its branding from "BIG 106" to BIG 105.Flightcheck Commercial Aviation Services was founded in 2004 as an aircraft maintenance provider and began operations at Chicago O’Hare in April 2006. ( Lex and Terry took over the morning show at WZTA, but lost that outlet for their syndicated program when it abruptly switched formats to Hispanic Urban in February 2005, changing its callsign to WMGE.) Since the switch, Paul and Young Ron has continued to be a popular program in South Florida. To fill the morning talk slot, in May 2004, Clear Channel moved Paul & Young Ron from WZTA. Subsequently, Clear Channel dropped the Stern show from WBGG and five other stations. In April 2004, the Federal Communications Commission fined Clear Channel Communications $495,000 for broadcasting allegedly indecent material on The Howard Stern Show. By mid-1995, it was calling itself a Classic Hits station while still playing mostly 70s music but by mid-1996, it evolved to the current Classic rock format. Initially, BIG 106 started out as a '70s station. (The WAXY callsign is now used by an unrelated AM station in the Miami market.) The station went dark for 1 minute and was signed back on the air at 12:01 as The New Big106. The final quarter hour of music was delivered by DJ Miguel Lombana and consisted of "It's the Same Old Song" by the Four Tops, "The End" by The Doors and "The Long and Winding Road" by The Beatles which was an inside gag and reference to Stuart Elliott and his signing off of 96X ( WPOW) years earlier. In 1990 RKO sold WAXY-FM and the station was owned and operated by Metroplex Communications (sister station to WHYI (Y-100)) until 1994.Ĭlear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) acquired Metroplex in March 1994 and the callsign was changed from WAXY-FM to WBGG-FM on September 1. In the early 1970s, the station had a rock format, but flipped to automated oldies in 1975. Under the callsign WAXY, the radio station was owned by RKO General. WAXY was later sold to RKO, and the AM switched to gospel.
The WAXY calls came on line before RKO's purchase of the station the combo was WEXY-WAXY after the AM switched to a more contemporary format. They were sold to the owners of then WIXX (1520), continuing their easy format with the new calls WIXX-FM, while the AM was country. The station signed on the air on Februand was initially WFLM, Broward's first all-stereo station, with an easy listening format.
Its studios are located in Miramar and the transmitter site is in Hallandale Beach.
Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., the station is licensed for HD Radio and carries WIOD 610 AM on HD2. Lauderdale, Florida and serving the Miami-Ft. WBGG-FM, branded as Big 105.9, is a classic rock radio station licensed to Ft. (Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.) For the AM radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, see WBGG (AM).