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WTCY

Original call letters WHGB
Original location Basement of Blackstone Building, 112 Market St., Harrisburg (until approximately 1979)
Original tower location Roof of Blackstone Building, 112 Market St., Harrisburg
Present location Vartan Way, Harrisburg
Present ownership Cumulus Media
Present tower location Adjacent to Cameron and Sycamore Sts., Harrisburg (since 1978)
Previous ownership Scott Broadcasting (date-of-air until July 31, 1989), Keymarket (July 31, 1989 to ?)
Previous formats Top 40 (starting in the 1960's until 1977), Country (1977-1978), Disco (1978-1979), "Hot Hits" (1979-1980), "Music of Your Life" (1980-1989), Adult Contemporary Christian (1989-1990)
Previous call letters WFEC during the '70s, went back to WHGB during the '80s, briefly used WNNK-AM in the early '90s
Personalities Red McCarthy, Bob Alexander ("Alexander in the morning"), Buzz Bowman, Charlie Adams, many others

WHGB

WHGB air personality Red McCarthy with representatives from Letts Camera (Contributed by Brock Kerchner)

WFEC

Various WFEC "VIP" music sheets from 1964-1966 - Includes pictures of the "Good Guys" air staff (Lucky Pierre, Buddy Carr, Tom Crane, Dick Bradley, Johnny Garland, Dave Marino, Curt Whitcomb, Fred King, Roy Storm, Tony Montgomery, and Buzz A. Long) - PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat to view  (Portzline collection)

14FEC logo from the 1970's (Portzline collection)

 

TechnoZone (for the technically curious)

1969 main transmitter license (Portzline collection)

1969 aux. transmitter license (Portzline collection)

1978 Special Temporary Authority to operate from new transmitter site (Portzline collection)

Gates Executive air studio console  This was used on-the-air for three decades ('60s-'80s) during the "Big 14", "14FEC", and "Music of Your Life" days.  It outlasted numerous PD's, formats and jocks!  I used this console very early in my radio career in 1978.  I also had the opportunity to remove it from service in 1989 (in working order.  This is one of my favorite pieces from my equipment collection.

1978 license renewal (Portzline collection)

1979 construction permit modification (Portzline collection)

ITA 1000A and Gates AM transmitters in 1990 (Portzline)

Harris 9000 automation system used for "Joy 1400" from 1989-90 (Portzline)