WNAE (104.3

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, "Kinzua Country 104") is an FM

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broadcasting a

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format. WNAE is licensed to serve

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. The station is owned by

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and features programming from Local Radio Networks.

History

The

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for this station was first issued on February 2, 1993, to Cary and Betty Simpson, who were the principal owners of the Allegheny Mountain Network, based in

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. It was originally permitted to operate at 106.9 MHz, but at the same operating power it has today. The

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WOVU was assigned on March 29, 1993. On November 7, 1994, WOVU was granted a construction permit to move to 104.3;

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would later take over the 106.9 frequency. Cary and Betty Simpson sold the WOVU permit to LeRoy Schneck's Kinzua Broadcasting Company, owner of WNAE and WRRN in

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, for $21,514 in 1994; the sale was completed on February 23, 1995. On July 14, 1995, the station changed its call sign to WKNB. It signed on August 31, 1995, carrying a country music format supplied by the Jones Satellite Network. Kinzua Broadcasting sold its stations to Frank Iorio, who already owned the construction permit for a station on 102.7 FM in Clarendon, in 2005 for $1.25 million; the new station, which took the call sign WNAE-FM, operated as a simulcast of WKNB from 2008 until its sale to the

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in 2010. Following a never-completed sale to Laurel Media in 2017, Iorio (who owned the stations under the name Radio Partners LLC) sold WKNB, WRRN, and WNAE to

for $900,000 in 2019, making them sister stations to

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and

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. Lilly changed the station's call sign to WNAE on March 4, 2020, parking the call sign from its AM sister station to retain rights to the WNAE calls.

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