WPGO
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Network | SRN News |
Ownership | |
Owner | Montrose Broadcasting Corporation |
WBGM, WJSA-FM, WPEL, WPEL-FM, WPGM, WPGM-FM | |
History | |
First air date | 1966 | (as WIQT)
Former call signs | WIQT (1988–1996) WQIX (1996–1997) WWLZ (1997–2020) WMTT (2020–2021) |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 10687 |
Class | B |
Power | 4,100 watts day 850 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°09′14″N 76°50′47″W / 42.15389°N 76.84639°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wpel.org |
WPGO (820
By day, WPGO is powered at 4,100
National religious leaders heard on WPGO and WPEL-FM include
History
1000 AM
The station
WIQT served as the headquarters of a flood-emergency network during the
Later in 1972, sister station WQIX 100.9 FM went on the air. It aired a country music format.
Move to 820 AM
WIQT, owned by Elmira
In Elmira, WIQT played classic country to complement the country music format of its sister station. Its slogan "820 American" came about after program director David Rockwell submitted a list of possible slogans to general manager Ron Ferro and Ferro misread "820 AM."
Sabre Communications, which owned
WIQT changed its call sign to WQIX on January 17, 1996. Its sister station added the -FM suffix. On February 21, 1997, it switched its call sign to WWLZ.
Talk and Classic Rock
As WWLZ, the station aired a
On January 13, 2020, WWLZ dropped the talk format to simulcast classic rock-formatted WMTT (94.7 FM), which was in the process of being sold to Seven Mountains Media.[4] On July 3, 2020, WWLZ changed its call sign to WMTT and rebranded as "101 the Met" as part of a five-station format swap, which made 820/101.3 the main signals for the Met, while adding a simulcast sister station at the former WPGI 100.9 (renamed WMTT-FM).[5]
Christian radio
When Seven Mountains Media announced it would acquire the New York assets of its primary rival Waypoint Media, WMTT was included among the licenses that would be donated to Family Life Network, along with WGGO in Salamanca, New York; as Family Life does not operate AM stations, has historically declined to purchase such stations (it declined to purchase WBVG or WFBL when involved in a similar swap in 2015), and initially did not apply to change the station's call sign, the fate of WGGO after the swap was unknown, with industry speculation that WMTT and WGGO might go silent.[6] The FM translator will go to Seven Mountains Media and will no longer simulcast WMTT.[7] The sale closed June 1, 2021.[8]
In July 2021, the station went silent. As Seven Mountains Media retained rights to the WMTT call sign (which moved back to 94.7), Family Life changed the call sign to WPGO, matching that of WGGO (but not those of the other Family Life FM stations, all of which start with WCG, WCI or WCO).[9] Neither WPGO nor WGGO were identified in Family Life's list of present or future affiliates.[10] broadcast reporter Scott Fybush stated shortly after the transfer that Family Life intended to sell off WPGO and WGGO to another broadcaster in the near future.[11]
On August 26, 2021, Family Life spun WPGO off to Montrose Broadcasting Corporation, a Pennsylvania-based religious broadcaster that owns WPEL, WPGM-FM and WBGM. The price tag was $50,000.[12] The sale was consummated on December 15, 2021.
FM translator
In addition to the main station broadcasting at 820 kHz, the programming was, prior to 2021, relayed on
Previous logos
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ FCC.gov/WPGO
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WPGO
- ^ WWLZ Drops Talk for WMTT Simulcast Radioinsight - January 14, 2020
- ^ "Seven Mountains Media Flips Five Stations in Elmira".
- ^ Fybush, Scott (February 5, 2021). NERW Extra: Family Life, Seven Mountains, Sound Strike Twin Tiers Deal. NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved February 10, 2021. "Another loose end, so far, is on the AM side (...) will some of those AMs end up going silent?"
- ^ "Price for Sound Communications-Seven Mountains Deal: $1.8 Million".
- ^ "Seven Mountains Media Makes Multiple Frequency Shifts in Elmira/Corning".
- ^ WKPQ Meets Bigfoot As Seven Mountains Completes Elmira Consolidation Radioinsight - July 4, 2021
- ^ "Stations".
- ^ "NorthEast Radio Watch 6/7/2021: Seven Mountains' New Elmira Sound". 7 June 2021.
- ^ Deal digest: EMF makes buys a Tulsa FM
- ^ "New Home".