WEBG (95.9 FM, "''Fox Sports 1330''") is a radio station licensed to

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, owned by

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. Its

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is located near Northeast Sherman Rd and Miller Rd in Chautauqua County New York. The station broadcasts a

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format as a simulcast of WFNN (1330 AM) from

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. The station has a

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signal serving the nearby Erie market; however, it is unable to be heard in the city itself because of co-channel interference from low-power

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repeater WBIT-LP in the city. Its signal is strongest in rural western

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, but is spotty in the population centers of

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, Fredonia and Jamestown. WEBG is iHeart's only broadcast property in

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west of Rochester. It (and its predecessor Clear Channel) has historically owned stations across almost all markets of New York except

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. WEBG's minimal local operations are headquartered along with iHeart's stations in Erie at the Boston Store building.

History

It signed on as WJRK on November 27, 2017,

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ing with

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for the holiday season. The station changed its call sign to WLTM on December 6, 2017, and officially launched on January 3, 2018, as

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''95.9 Lite FM'', using an AC format syndicated from

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. On March 27, 2019,

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announced that it would transfer WLTM along with its sister stations to

in exchange for WFRE and WFMD in the

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, market from the

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. The sale closed on May 20, 2019. From November 5 to December 25, 2019, the station broadcast

as ''Christmas 95.9''. On December 26, 2019, the station flipped to

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as ''iHeartPodcast 95.9'', with a schedule consisting exclusively of

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s distributed by iHeartMedia and its subsidiaries, including '' Stuff You Should Know'' among others. The station changed its call sign to WEBG on September 14, 2020; the call sign was transferred from co-owned

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in Chicago, which had used it when it was branded as "Big". On January 10, 2022, WEBG flipped to

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as a

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of WFNN in Erie. It was the last station to carry the ''iHeartPodcast'' format.

References

External links

* * EBG (FM) IHeartMedia radio stations Radio stations established in 2017 2017 establishments in New York (state) Fox Sports Radio stations Sports radio stations in the United States {{NewYork-radio-station-stub