WNBT-FM (104.5

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) and WZBF (96.9 MHz), "Bigfoot Country 96 - 104 - 107") are two

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. WNBT-FM is

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, and WZBF is licensed to Ridgebury, Pennsylvania. The stations are part of a quadcast serving

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's Northern Tier and

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, including the Elmira - Corning

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. They are owned by Kristin Cantrell (doing business as Seven Mountains Media), through licensee Southern Belle, LLC.

History

WNBT-FM began as the FM sister station of Farm & Home Broadcasting Company-owned WNBT (now

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) with the call letters WGCR-FM. The station was initially granted a construction permit to operate at the frequency of 97.7 MHz at an effective radiated power of a thousand watts in August 1968. In 1973, the FCC granted permission for WGCR-FM to drop the 'FM' from its call letters, change its city of license from Wellsboro to "Wellsboro-

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", and change its dial position from 97.7 to 104.5 MHz, with a power increase to 50,000 watts. In May 2017, WNBT-FM changed its format from

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(branded as "The Buzz") to country, branded as "Bigfoot Country 104.5". On July 9, 2018, WNBT-FM began simulcasting on WZBF (96.9 FM) in Ridgebury; that station was previously

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-formatted WVYS "Yes FM".Bigfoot Expands in North Central Pennsylvania
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