WGYY

WGYY (100.3 FM) and WGYI (98.5 FM), branded as Froggy 100.3 and 98.5, are commercial radio stations in Crawford County in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Both stations simulcast a country music radio format and are owned by Seven Mountains Media. WGYY is licensed to Meadville, Pennsylvania. WGYI is licensed to Oil City, Pennsylvania.

WGYY
Broadcast areaNorthwestern Pennsylvania
Frequency100.3 MHz
BrandingFroggy 100.3 and 98.5
Programming
FormatCountry
AffiliationsWestwood One
Ownership
Owner
  • Seven Mountains Media
  • (Southern Belle Media Family, LLC)
WHMJ, WUZZ, WKST, WMGW, WRQI, WXMJ, WYLE
History
Call sign meaning
FrogGY
Technical information
Facility ID24940
ClassB
ERP20,000 watts
HAAT179 meters (587 ft)
Links
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.forevernorthwestpa.com/froggyfun/
WGYI
Broadcast areaNorthwestern Pennsylvania
Frequency98.5 MHz
BrandingFroggy 100.3 and 98.5
Programming
FormatCountry
AffiliationsWestwood One
Ownership
Owner
  • Seven Mountains Media
  • (Southern Belle Media Family, LLC)
History
Former call signs
WOYL-FM (1999-2000)
Call sign meaning
FrogGY
Technical information
Facility ID21421
ClassB1
ERP20,000 watts
HAAT91 meters (299 ft)
Links
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.forevernorthwestpa.com/froggyfun/

History

100.3 WGYY

WGYY signed on 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 call letters. WMGW-FM was co-owned with AM 1490 WMGW. For the first three decades, WMGW and WMGW-FM mostly simulcast their programming.

Like many small-town radio stations, WMGW-AM-FM broadcast a full service radio format through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, consisting of local, world and national news, local and Pittsburgh sports, and adult contemporary music. World and national news was provided by ABC News and the Associated Press radio network.

In the early 1970s, WMGW-AM-FM were purchased by the Regional Broadcasters Group headquartered in Kingston, New York. The FM station's call letters were 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 zippers. While WMGW's AM format remained the same, WZPR changed to automated beautiful music, playing quarter hour sweeps of mostly instrumental cover versions of popular songs.

In 1978 WZPR switched to its current format, country music, eventually taking the WGYY call letters.

98.5 WGYI

On May 1, 1957, WGYI signed on the air.[1] Its original callsign 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 NBC Radio.

Sale to Seven Mountains Media

It was announced on October 12, 2022 that Forever Media is selling 34 stations, including WGYY/WGYI and the entire Meadville/Franklin cluster, to State College-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.3 million.[2] The deal closed on January 2, 2023.[3]

References

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