WHGB

WHGB (1400 AM, "ESPN Radio 1400") is a radio station broadcasting an sports format. Licensed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it serves the greater Harrisburg metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting under the call sign WFEC. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media and features sports programming from ESPN Radio.^[2] The previous ESPN Radio affiliation was with WPDC in Elizabethtown, PA.

History

The station was first assigned the call sign WHGB when it signed on in the 1940s. It became WFEC in 1963 featuring a Top 40 format. In 1982 after a series of failed country, disco and urban formats (beginning in 1977), it returned to Top 40 and adopted the Mike Joseph format called Hot Hits in response to the success of WCAU-FM in Philadelphia with that approach. Although WFEC featured the basics of the Hot Hits format to the letter, it was not consulted by Joseph himself. During the Hot Hits era, the station was known as Fire 14.^[3] On February 3, 1983, the station changed its call sign back to WHGB. On October 31, 1990, the station changed its call sign to WNNK as "Wink 1400", a counterpart to WNNK-FM. The station changed its call sign to WTCY on August 27, 1993 and by 2007 had been broadcasting an Urban Adult Contemporary format as "1400 The Touch". WTCY started simulcasting "The Touch" on WNNK-FM's translator located at 95.3 FM (W237DE). On August 20, 2008, the station switched formats to sports radio featuring ESPN Radio, returning to the call sign WHGB that had been used in the 40s, 50s and 60s and again from 1984 until 1990. The previous format remained exclusively on WNNK-FM's HD2 channel and translator on 95.3 FM using the previous call sign WTCY as part of the station branding as "The Touch 95.3". The touch is now GONE for good. Now there is not one full time Urban/ Urban AC station in Harrisburg. The closet ones are WAMO 100 in Pittsburgh. Other closer ones are in Philadelphia which are: Hot 107.9 WPHI, 100.3 WRNB, Power 98.9 WUSL, and 105.3 WDAS

References

External links

• Official website
• ESPN Radio 1400
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WHGB
• Radio-Locator Information on WHGB
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WHGB
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W237DE