WEBG (95.9 FM, "''Fox Sports 1330''") is a radio station

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to Mina, New York owned by iHeartMedia. Its

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is located near Northeast Sherman Rd and Miller Rd in Chautauqua County New York. The station broadcasts a

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format as a simulcast of

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(1330 AM) from

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. The station has a

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signal serving the nearby Erie market, however it is unable to be heard in the city itself because of co-channel interference from low-power

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repeater WBIT-LP in the city. Its signal is strongest in rural western Chautauqua County, New York but is spotty in the population centers of Dunkirk, Fredonia and Jamestown. WEBG is iHeart's only broadcast property in New York west of

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. It (and its predecessor Clear Channel) has historically owned stations across almost all markets of New York except

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. WEBG's minimal local operations are headquartered along with iHeart's stations in Erie at the Boston Store building.

History

It signed on as WJRK on November 27, 2017,

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ing with Christmas music for the holiday season. The station changed its call sign to WLTM on December 6, 2017, and officially launched on January 3, 2018, as

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''95.9 Lite FM'', using an AC format syndicated from

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. On March 27, 2019, Connoisseur Media announced that it would transfer WLTM along with its sister stations to iHeartMedia in exchange for WFRE and

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in the

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, market from the Aloha Station Trust. The sale closed on May 20, 2019. From November 5 to December 25, 2019, the station broadcast Christmas music as ''Christmas 95.9''. On December 26, 2019, the station flipped to

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as ''iHeartPodcast 95.9'', with a schedule consisting exclusively of

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s distributed by iHeartMedia and its subsidiaries, including ''

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'' among others. The station changed its call sign to WEBG on September 14, 2020; the call sign was transferred from co-owned

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in Chicago, which had used it when it was branded as "Big". On January 10, 2022, WEBG flipped to Fox Sports Radio as a

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in Erie. It was the last station to carry the ''iHeartPodcast'' format.

References

External links

* * EBG (FM) IHeartMedia radio stations Radio stations established in 2017 2017 establishments in New York (state) Fox Sports Radio stations Sports radio stations in the United States {{NewYork-radio-station-stub