WCIG (97.7 FM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

broadcasting a

Christian radio Christian radio refers to Christian media radio formats that focus on Christian religious broadcasting or various forms of Christian music. Many such formats and programs include contemporary Christian music, gospel music, sermons, radio dramas, ...

format. Licensed to

Big Flats, New York Big Flats is a town in Chemung County, New York, United States. The population was 7,822 at the 2020 census. The town is on the western border of the county, west of Elmira. It is part of the Elmira Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town co ...

, United States, the station is owned by

Family Life Network The Family Life Network is a Christian radio network, broadcasting on FM stations across Western and Central New York, as well as northern Pennsylvania, from flagship station WCIK (103.1) in Avoca, New York. It is owned and operated by the Fam ...

History

The station was assigned the call letters WNBR on August 28, 1987. On March 1, 1989, the station changed its

call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally as ...

to WGMM; on May 16, 2005, to WCBA-FM; and on July 26, 2005, to WENI-FM. The station swapped call signs with its sister station in South Waverly, Pennsylvania, on December 27, 2017, assuming the WENY-FM call sign. On June 1, 2021, WENY-FM changed its format from

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

to Family Life Network's Christian radio format, assuming the call sign WCIG on June 22, 2021.WKPQ Meets Bigfoot As Seven Mountains Completes Elmira Consolidation
Radioinsight - July 4, 2021

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* Radio stations established in 1992 1992 establishments in New York (state) CIG {{NewYork-radio-station-stub