WAPY (103.1 FM) is a

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station in

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operating with a power of 370

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Programming

Until May 20, 2015, WAPY carried many nationally syndicated shows such as,

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with

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, America in the Morning with

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, The

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Show,

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, The Michael Savage Show, The

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Show, The Jerry Doyle Show, The

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Show, and Live on Sunday Night with

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. WAPY also aired a local show, The WRSC Morning Show, starring Centre Region-area radio veteran Kevin Nelson (& Company), which is currently replaced with Pat Urban show. WAPY aired NASCAR programming as well during the week from MRN Radio. Now that the station broadcasts a

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format it has a live local morning show and receives the rest of its programming from Westwood One Classic Hits Local

History

WAPY had been a talk radio station before becoming branded as News Radio 1390. Andy Flick, currently a coordinating producer at

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, worked at WAPY during and after his time at

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. John Lorinc, an anchor/editor for

worked at sister station WQWK at the same time. Other WAPY alums include Pat Kain and Jennifer Goodwin. The then-WRSC-FM moved its talk programming from 1390 AM to 103.1 FM on Monday, August 3, 2009 as "Newsradio 103 WRSC". The news/talk format moved back to 1390 AM on May 20, 2015 as 103.1 flipped to classic hits as "Happy 103.1". It was announced on October 12, 2022 that Forever Media is selling 34 stations, including WAPY and five other sister stations, to State College-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.3 million. The deal closed on January 2, 2023. On December 30, 2022, it was announced that the station would be simulcasting

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within days. On January 3, 2023 WAPY picked up the WOWY classic hits format from

97.1 FM University Park, which began stunting towards a new format.Seven Mountains Media State College Format Shuffle Update
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Weekday Programming

*6 a.m. to 10 a.m. - Pat Urban *10 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Joyce Jefferson *3 p.m. to 8 p.m. - John Summers *8 p.m. to 1 a.m. - Keith Stephens *1 a.m. to 6 a.m. - Chris Kellogg

Former logos

References

External links

* APY Classic hits radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1976 1976 establishments in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-radio-station-stub