The Bee moves down the dial

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Radio station KWJB has moved its FM frequency to 95.1, station officials announced last week.

KWJB, called The Bee, has its studios in Canton and is the only commercial broadcast station located in Van Zandt County.

“The success of the Bee has enabled it to expand its signal area from Terrell to Tyler and Athens to Mineola. In order to increase our listening area we moved from 95.7 to the 95.1 FM frequency,” said John Butler of Butler7media, the owner of the station. “Based on encouraging and positive comments from listeners, we felt good about making this significant investment to better serve our growing followers of The Bee in East Texas.”

Butler said the purpose of the station “is to bring a smile to our listener’s faces, as we provide daily updates on local events, news, live city council meetings, local church services, high school sports and play the greatest hits from rock to country.”
“We have a lot of fun broadcasting live play-by-play East Texas high school football, basketball and other sport events on THE BEE” said T.A. Hale, one of The Bee’s Buzz Brothers sports broadcasters. “It is the official sports station of VZC.”

Hale, along with Shawn Stewart, Mike Malouf and producer Kyle Travis, have gained a large following as The Bee sportscast team. In addition to the games, they host The Bee Sports Show at 6:30 p.m. on Mondays during the seasons.

CISD Superintendent Jay Tullos said “We appreciate our partnership with KWJB radio and are excited The Bee, now on 95.1 FM, will have an even larger audience as they broadcast the high school games and school reports.”

School superintendents from the major districts in the county give school updates each week on The Bee, Butler said.

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