WGYY (100.3 FM) and WGYI (98.5 FM), branded as Froggy 100.3 and 98.5, are

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s in

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. Both stations

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and are owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC. WGYY is

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. WGYI is licensed to

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History

100.3 WGYY

WGYY

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the air in 1948 as WMGW-FM, the first FM radio station in Crawford County. It was founded by Meadville physician Dr. Harry C. Winslow. Dr. Winslow chose his daughter's initials (Mary Grace Winslow) for the station's

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. WMGW-FM was co-owned with

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WMGW WMGW (1490 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the seat of government for Crawford County, Pennsylvania, Crawford County. WMGW is owned by Seven Mountains Media. Programming is simulca ...

. For the first three decades, WMGW and WMGW-FM mostly

their programming. Like many small-town radio stations, WMGW-AM-FM broadcast a

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format through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, consisting of local, world and national news, local and Pittsburgh sports, and

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. World and national news was provided by

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and the

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radio network. In the early 1970s, WMGW-AM-FM were purchased by the Regional Broadcasters Group headquartered in

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. The FM station's call sign was changed to WZPR as a tribute to Meadville's Talon Corporation which, nearly a century earlier, had become America's first manufacturer of "hookless fasteners" or

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s. While WMGW's AM format remained the same, WZPR changed to

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beautiful music, playing quarter hour sweeps of mostly instrumental

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s of popular songs. In 1978, WZPR switched to its current format,

, eventually taking the WGYY call sign.

98.5 WGYI

On May 1, 1957, WGYI signed on the air. Its original call sign was WDJR and its effective radiated power was 3,400 watts. It mostly simulcast its AM sister station, AM 1340 WKRZ (now 1120 kHz WKQW). WKRZ and WDJR were owned by WKRZ, Inc. and carried programming from

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Sale to Seven Mountains Media

It was announced on October 12, 2022 that Forever Media was selling 34 stations, including WGYY/WGYI and the entire Meadville/Franklin cluster, to

State College State College is a borough and home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a college town, home to the University Park campus of The Pennsylvania State University. State College is the largest designated borou ...

-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.375 million. The deal closed on January 1, 2023.

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