WKBI (AM)

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WKBI-AM

City of license	Saint Marys, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Saint Marys, Pennsylvania
Branding	Classy 1400
Slogan	The Memory Station
Frequency	1400 (kHz)
Format	oldies
ERP	1000 watts
Class	B1
Owner	The Elk-Cameron Broadcasting Co.
Website	http://www.wkbi.net/

WKBI (Classy 1400), is an oldies radio station based in Saint Marys, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Elk-Cameron Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of The Allegheny Mountain Network (AMN), based in Tyrone. The AMN owns 50 percent of Elk-Cameron Broadcasting.

WKBI was the very first radio station in Elk County, and there was no radio station on the air in neighboring Cameron County at the time, which is why its parent company is known as Elk-Cameron Broadcasting. WKBI remains the sole AM radio station in all of Elk County. For a time, WKBI was the flagship station of AMN, first having signed on the air July 23, 1950, and was thus the first station in the group. That changed five years later, when AMN founder Cary H. Simpson signed on WTRN in Tyrone. Operations for the AMN were then moved to Tyrone.

WKBI gained an FM sister station in 1966, which became known as WKBI-FM. That station is known today as B94.

WKBI's original studio location was above the Firestone Tire store in downtown St. Mary's. In the early 1970's, WKBI AM/FM moved to a new building constructed at the station's transmitter site on Melody Lane, located just outside of the St. Mary's city limits, where it remains today.

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