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WFGI-FM
WFGI-FM (95.5 Hertz, MHz, "Froggy 95.5") is a Froggy (brand), Froggy branded country music formatted radio station in Pennsylvania serving the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Johnstown area. The station is owned and operated by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC. History The station began at 96.5 (now WKYE) as WJNL-FM in 1973 as the sister station to WJNL. It played easy to listen to music and had news updates hourly and was known as by that call sign until it was purchased in 1996 by Clear Channel Communications. It then became "96.5 the Mountain" with the call sign WMTZ and began playing country music. In 2005, Clear Channel decided to leave the Johnstown market and sold its station properties to Altoona-based Forever Broadcasting. Forever wanted to expand its Froggyland into the Pittsburgh area but the 96.5 signal was not able to do so. The 95.5 signal could, however, so in February 2005, the station became Froggy 95 (as it is still today). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGGI (AM)
WGGI (990 kHz) is an American AM radio station, licensed to serve Somerset, Pennsylvania; the seat of country music for Somerset County. The station broadcasts with a maximum output power of 10,000 watts during the day and greatly reduces power to 100 watts at night, using a two-tower directional antenna system. The station is a simulcast of WFGI-FM in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. History Beginnings as WVSC The station signed on, as WVSC, on January 15, 1951, and was the first radio station located in Somerset County. Licensed to Somerset Broadcasting Co., the owners were T. H. Oppegard, President and General Manager, and Carl R. Lee, Sales Manager and Chief Engineer. Sportscaster Mike Patrick began his career at the station. The call sign stood for "We're the Voice of Somerset County". The station for many years programmed a full-service format of news, sports, and talk, much of it local. WVSC was also the longtime local voice of ABC News, including the legendary Paul Harvey. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKYE
WKYE (96.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "Key 96.5") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC, and broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format, format. The station broadcasts with an Effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, making it a class B station. Its broadcast tower is located east of Johnstown at (). History WJAC-FM For many years, this station was on 95.5 MHz and had the WJAC-FM call sign. It was the sister station of WJAC (later WKGE) and WJAC-TV, the local NBC affiliate. The station simulcast WJAC regularly, with occasional breaks for separate programming throughout the day, usually playing easy-listening music. WJAC and WJAC-FM radio studios were co-located with WJAC-TV, on Old Hickory Lane in Upper Yoder Township (with a Johnstown postal address). Both the AM and FM studios overlooked the television studios from the second floor. WKYE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNTJ
WNTJ (1490 AM broadcasting, AM) is a Radio broadcasting, radio station city of license, licensed to serve Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The station, established in 1946, is currently owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC. Until May 1, 2023, WNTJ broadcast a All-news radio, news/talk radio format including Pittsburgh Pirates baseball, Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, Pittsburgh Steelers football and select Fox News Radio programming. The station was assigned the WNTJ call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on May 8, 2008 in radio, 2008. Prior to 2008, this station was home to ESPN Radio affiliate WPRR, and before that, was the first home for WNTJ. History: beginnings as WARD First coming on the air in 1948, this station began as WARD. Over the next decade, WARD would be joined by an FM station: WARD-FM 96.5 (now WFGI-FM at 95.5), and a UHF television station: WARD-TV channel 56 (now on virtual channel 19 as WPKD-TV in Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Froggy (brand)
Froggy is a brand name radio format used for a variety of radio stations in the United States, most of which broadcast a country music format, with a few playing adult contemporary. (There was, however, an oldies-themed "Froggy" in Erie, Pennsylvania: the former WFGO; that station has since changed format and calls in 2007. Another oldies-based Froggy station, KFGI in Austin, Texas, changed formats in 1994.) Although the frog logo is shared among these stations, most of them are not associated with one another. The "Froggy" branding is particularly common among country stations currently or formerly owned by Forever Broadcasting or Forever Communications and Keymarketradio LLC, companies founded by Froggy creator Kerby Confer. Origin The Froggy format was conceived by Kerby Confer in 1988. Previously, Confer created a variety of country radio station brands such as "Kissin'" ( KSSN in Little Rock, Arkansas) and "Beaver" ( WBVR-FM in Bowling Green, Kentucky). "Froggy" was first i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFGI RDS
WFGI may refer to: * WFGI-FM WFGI-FM (95.5 Hertz, MHz, "Froggy 95.5") is a Froggy (brand), Froggy branded country music formatted radio station in Pennsylvania serving the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Johnstown area. The station is owned and operated by Seven Mountains Media, t ..., a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States * WFGI (AM), a defunct radio station (940 AM) licensed to Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States {{call sign disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Indiana is a borough in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. The population was 14,044 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Indiana, Pennsylvania micropolitan area, about northeast of Pittsburgh. It is a part of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistical area, as well as the Johnstown and Pittsburgh media markets. The borough and the region as a whole promote itself as the "Christmas Tree Capital of the World" because the national Christmas Tree Growers Association was founded there. There are still many Christmas tree farms in the area. The largest employer in the borough today is Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the second-largest of 14 PASSHE schools in the state. History In 1768, Thomas and Richard Penn, sons of William Penn, secured the southern part of what would later become Indiana County from the Iroquois Six Nations through the First Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Indiana takes its name from India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRKW
WRKW (99.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a commercially-licensed radio station that is licensed to Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC, it maintains studios and offices at 109 Plaza Drive in Johnstown. It operates at the federally-assigned, effective radiated power of 50,000 watts, and transmits from a facility at 480 Tower Road in Summerhill, Pennsylvania. To boost its signal, WRKW simulcasts on W230BK, a 175-watt translator on 93.9 FM that is licensed to serve Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Johnstown. The station is related to WRKY-FM "Rocky 104.9" in Altoona, Pennsylvania; both are owned by Seven Mountains Media. History The beginning For much of its existence, WRKW was known as WIYQ, first signing on the air as WEND-FM on July 15, 1962 from studios on Center Street in downtown Ebensburg, its licensed community. The station, along with its like-named AM sister station was founded by Cary H. Simpson, who also founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
