) in Columbus On January 8, 1964, the
Federal Communications Commission granted the Van Wert Broadcasting Company—owner of
WMVR (1080 AM), which signed on November 21, 1963—a construction permit for an FM station on 105.5 MHz. The station signed on in 1965; it simulcast and continued the programming of the AM station, a daytime-only outlet. In 1966, WMVR-AM-FM was purchased by the Dean Miller Broadcasting Corporation, owned by
Dean Miller, an actor and Ohio native. Before coming to Sidney, Miller had been a television personality and actor in Hollywood. He was best known for the role of Matt Henshaw on the
Desilu-produced
CBS sitcom
December Bride from 1954 to 1959, co-starring with
Spring Byington,
Frances Rafferty,
Verna Felton, and
Harry Morgan. He later co-hosted the
NBC daytime celebrity interview series ''
Here's Hollywood'', with
Helen O'Connell, in addition to appearances on the
NBC game show
Your First Impression and as an occasional fill-in host for ''
Art Linkletter's House Party'' on CBS. A
Hamilton, Ohio, native, Miller (born Dean C. Stuhmueller, Sr.,) began his career essentially as a radio broadcaster before a by-chance meeting with some Hollywood executives who agreed to give the young Miller a chance to act. Miller graduated from
Ohio State University in
Columbus. Miller also hosted a talk and variety show on WLW-C television (now
WCMH-TV) in the early 1960s. Miller moved the WMVR stations from their original home in the Taylor Building downtown to their present location in the summer of 1969. At that time, the stations began offering separate programming, with a full service/
middle of the road format on AM and
beautiful music on FM. In the 1980s, the station switched to
hot adult contemporary as
Hits 105.5. The AM station, which had simulcast the FM for most of the period aside from attempts at
big band and news/talk formats, was closed in November 2000 after one of the towers was blown down in a storm. Dean Miller died January 13, 2004, at his home in
Grosse Pointe, Michigan. His widow, Ida, owned WMVR-FM until her death on May 6, 2014. The station remained owned by his family. On August 3, 2015, WMVR-FM changed formats to
adult hits, branded as "105.5 TAM FM", with the letters TAM representing "Totally About Music". In March 2022, the station was sold to Fender Broadcasting, a company owned by the station's assistant general manager Michelle Stallard. After the acquisition was completed on June 24, 2022, the station reverted to its previous hot AC format and branding
Hits 105.5 on September 6. ==References==