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Fort Walton Beach, often referred to by the initialism FWB, is a city in southern Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 20,922, [7] up from 19,507 in 2010. [8] It is a principal city of the Crestview−Fort Walton Beach−Destin, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
As of December 21, 2011, the station has been bought out by Apex Broadcasting, which includes the sale of all sister stations in the Ft Walton Beach market. Apex Broadcasting sold WHWY — along with sister stations WECQ, WWAV, and WZLB — to Community Broadcasters effective December 1, 2016, at a purchase price of $5.9 million.
Emerald Coast Rider (known as Okaloosa County Transit until 2015 [1]) is the public transportation agency that serves the Okaloosa County, Florida.The service was founded in 1987 and served approximately 225,000 riders in 2009.
WBON (92.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Destin, Florida, and serving Fort Walton Beach and the Emerald Coast. Owned and operated by JVC Broadcasting, it features a mainstream rock radio format. WBON has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 19,000 watts, its transmitter is off Hollywood Boulevard NW in Fort Walton Beach.
WFGX signed on the air on April 7, 1987, as an independent station; it was the second independent station on the Florida side of the market, after Pensacola-based WJTC.. In 1995, WFGX's original local owners entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Heritage Media, then-owner of WEAR.
On December 22, 2020, Community Broadcasters sold the entire Fort Walton Beach cluster to JVC Broadcasting for almost $2.3 million, which later closed on February 1, 2021. [3] JVC Media announced that WZLB has flipped to its Florida Man Radio talk format on March 1, 2021.
The first issue contained 24 pages, about 65 percent of which was paid display advertising. From the mid-1960s, the newspaper's offices and printing plant were on Eglin Parkway in downtown Fort Walton Beach. The paper was sold to Freedom Newspapers, Inc., now Freedom Communications, on July 1, 1969. [4]
The Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park & Cultural Center is located on U.S. Highway 98 in the center of historic Fort Walton Beach, Florida. This archaeological site features multiple museums that showcase local history from 14,000 BCE through the 1950s. The cultural exhibits and landscape tell the story of 12,000 years of human occupation.