The Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co. (also known as ''Elyria-Lorain'' or ''ELB'') is a privately held

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of various assets in the broadcast media, based in

Elyria, Ohio Elyria ( ) is a city in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles southwest of Cleveland. As of the 2020 cen ...

. Its parent company is the Lorain County Printing and Publishing Company, which owns the '
Chronicle-Telegram
'' of Elyria an
Medina County Gazette
The company was founded in 1948 with the establishment of WEOL AM-FM in Elyria, Ohio, the AM station of which continues to serve as the company's flagship. On May 15, 1958, Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co. was purchased by the Lorain County Printing and Publishing Company, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. As LCP&P owned the ''Chronicle-Telegram'' (and bought the Gazette in 1962) in effect formed a radio/newspaper duopoly. This arrangement has lasted to this day, grandfathered by FCC legislation that now prohibit such arrangements. Other stations within the chain include the Sandusky/

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area cluster of WLKR FM 95.3, WLKR AM 1510, and

WKFM WKFM is an FM radio station licensed to Huron, Ohio, operating on 96.1 MHz. Its transmitter is in Berlin Heights and its studios are in Milan, along with sister stations WLKR-FM and WLKR (AM). The station is locally owned by Elyria-Lorain Broad ...

FM 96.1. Throughout the 1990s, Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting also owned a station in the

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market, WYXZ-FM in Crestline. In 2003, WYXZ was sold off to

EMF Broadcasting Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's large ...

, which now operates the station as

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with their " K-Love" religious format. The company also owned WMEL (AM 920, now WDMC) Melbourne (1956 to 1993);

WROD WROD (1340 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Daytona Beach, Florida, and broadcasting a classic rock radio format. As of June 24, 2015, WROD is owned by Miracle Media LLC. WROD is a Class C radio station transmitting with 1,000 watts, ...

-AM 1340 Daytona Beach (1965 to 1982) and WELE-FM 105.9 (now

WOCL WOCL (105.9 FM broadcasting, FM "Sunny FM") is a commercial radio, commercial radio station, city of license, licensed to DeLand, Florida, and serving Greater Orlando and Central Florida. It is owned by Audacy, Inc., and airs a classic hits radio ...

) DeLand - Daytona Beach - Orlando (1982 to 1986), all in Florida. WEOL-FM in Elyria became WBEA in 1965, then WCZR and

WNWV WNWV (107.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Elyria, Ohio, carrying an alternative rock format known as "107.3 Alternative Cleveland". Owned by Rubber City Radio Group, Inc., the station serves Greater Cleveland and much of surround ...

in 1987, and was sold off to the Akron, Ohio-based Rubber City Radio Group, Inc. in December 2011.

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