WLGD (107.7

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, "Rock 107") is an FM radio station,

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, and serving the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre area of

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. It

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s the

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WEZX (106.9 FM) in Scranton. WLGD and WEZX are owned and operated by

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. The studios and offices are on Baltimore Drive in Wilkes-Barre. WLGD is a Class A station. It has an

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(ERP) of 2,350 watts, using a

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. The

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is on Deer Path Lane in Kingston Township.

History

Classic rock and oldies

The station got its

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in the mid-1980s after the debut of its original AM sister station, 1460 WEMR (now WGMM). There was no radio station on the air at that time in Wyoming County, until a consortium of local business leaders pooled their resources together to put WEMR on the air. The new company, known as Endless Mountain Broadcasting, Inc., decided to add an FM station. The construction permit was given the

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WEMR-FM. One of the investors in Endless Mountain Broadcasting was local

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dealer Don Sherwood, who was also on the local school board for 23 years. He would go on to serve in the

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for eight years. The station

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the air on October 10, 1990. By then, the call letters had changed to WYMK. It was staffed by a live, local disc jockeys and subscribed to Unistar's (now

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's) "Adult Rock 'n Roll"

format. It used the moniker "Y-107". In 1997, Endless Mountain Broadcasting put WEMR and WYMK up for sale. Both stations were purchased by

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. Shortly after the purchase, the operations for both stations were moved to Wilkes-Barre from their original home at the WEMR transmitter site on Wilmar Drive in Tunkhannock. The call letters were changed from WEMR-FM in 2002 to WCWY, and then to WBZR two years later, to WGMF in 2006, and then to WGMF-FM in June 2009. As WGMF-FM, the station was branded as "GEM 107.7" and broadcast an

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format.

Family Life Network

WGMF-FM was sold to the

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, which airs a

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format on multiple radio stations in Pennsylvania and New York State. On July 21, 2009, the station started broadcasting its programming. The call sign was changed to WCIG.

Bigfoot Legends

In 2021, the Family Life Network exchanged WCIG to Seven Mountains Media in exchange for five stations in Elmira and

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. WCIG changed its call letters to WLGD on June 15, 2021. Ten days later, on June 25, 2021, WLGD dropped Family Life Network programming and began stunting with a loop of "

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" by

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. On July 2, 2021, at 10 a.m., WLGD ended stunting and launched a classic country format. It was branded as "Bigfoot Legends 107.7". On January 19, 2022, WLGD began simulcasting on

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(590 AM) in Scranton. That included WARM's

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, W269CF at 101.7 MHz.

Rock 107 simulcast

Times-Shamrock Communications agreed to acquire WLGD for $300,000 in May 2024. On May 31, 2024, WLGD changed its format to a simulcast of Times-Shamrock's classic rock-formatted WEZX (Rock 107).WLGD Joins Rock 107 Network in Northeast PA
Radioinsight - May 31, 2024 Seven Mountains Media retained WARM, and took that station off the air while seeking new programming.

References

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* {{Times-Shamrock LGD Radio stations established in 1990 1990 establishments in Pennsylvania Classic rock radio stations in the United States Luzerne County, Pennsylvania