WFGI-FM
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| City of license | Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area |
Johnstown, Pennsylvania Indiana, Pennsylvania Somerset, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | "Froggy 95" |
| Slogan | "The Best and Most Country |
| Frequency | 95.5 MHz |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 57,000 watts |
| HAAT | 323 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 72965 |
| Owner | Forever Broadcasting, LLC |
| Website | http://www.myfroggy95.com |
WFGI-FM, known as "Froggy 95 FM", is a Froggy branded Country music formatted radio station in Pennsylvania serving the Johnstown area. The station is owned and operated by Forever Broadcasting, LLC.
History
The station began at 96.5 (now WKYE) as WJNL-FM in the 1970s as the sister station to WJNL. They played easy to listen to music and had news updates hourly. It was known as this until it was purchased in 1996 by Clear Communications. When it became 96.5 the mountain with the callsign WMTZ and began playing Country Music. In 2005 Clear Communications decided to leave the Johnstown area and sold its properties in Johnstown to Altoona-based Forever Broadcasting. Forever wanted to expand its Froggyland into the Pittsburgh area and the 96.5 signal was not able to do so. The 95.5 signal was able to with no problem, so in February 2005 the station became Froggy 95 (as it is still today).
Signal Abilities
WFGI-FM has a very strong signal that can be heard as far west as western suburbs of Pittsburgh and even eastern Ohio and as far east as Mifflin County, where it starts conflicting with WMRF on 95.7 FM from Lewistown. In recent years however the coverage area has faded, due to short space same and adjacent stations and also weather conditions having effect on coverage presumably from flora.
Multipath Issues
WFGI-FM has always suffered from signal degradation in the city of license, primarily because of the excessive height above the city as well as multipath caused buy the local terrain of the Allegheny plateau. There are multiple areas in Johnstown that cause that station to have multipath.
External links
- Froggy 95
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WFGI
- Radio-Locator information on WFGI
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WFGI
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