WHUN (1150 AM) is a

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980 ...

station serving the

Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Huntingdon is a borough in (and the county seat of) Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located along the Juniata River, approximately east of Altoona and west of Harrisburg. With a population of 7,093 at the 2010 census ...

area. As of June 28, 2018, the station is known as "97.7 103.1 103.5 WOWY,

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ing

WAPY WAPY (103.1 FM) is a classic hits station in State College, Pennsylvania operating with a power of 370 watts. Programming Until May 20, 2015, WAPY carried many nationally syndicated shows such as, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, America i ...

103.1 FM State College and WHUN-FM 103.5 Huntingdon. WHUN is owned by Kristin Cantrell and the

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is held by Southern Belle, LLC.

History

WHUN began as WHUN in 1947, and among its original personnel was Cary H. Simpson, who assisted in building the station and would later build a series of his own stations in central and northern Pennsylvania. For many years, WHUN's ownership would be relatively unchanged, with the station and its FM sister, WLAK (103.5 FM), which would come on the air years later, staying in the Biddle and McMeen families until the stations were sold in the mid-1990s to BARDCOM of Mount Union, Pa. From 1994-2002, WHUN was the sister station of WXMJ 99.5 FM (Majic 99). Both stations were sold to Forever Broadcasting in 2002. The station's call sign was changed to WLLI on February 8, 2010, and from 2010 to 2012, the station was a

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station known as Willy AM 1150. On December 31, 2012, the format changed to sports radio, and the station became known as ESPN Radio 1150. The call sign was changed back to WHUN on January 2, 2013. Effective September 1, 2015, Forever Broadcasting sold WHUN and sister station WHUN-FM (106.3 FM) to Southern Belle, LLC for $100,000. In 2016, WHUN changed their format from sports to a simulcast of classic hits-formatted WHUN-FM (103.5 FM). On June 28, 2019, WHUN and WHUN-FM switched to a simulcast of oldies

WOWY WGJC (97.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station broadcasting from University Park, Pennsylvania. The owner is Jim Loftus of Covenant Communications, which also owns WBHV, WLEJ and WMAJ, WZWW. History On June 28, 2019 WOWY began simulcasting ...

97.1 FM University Park. On August 24, 2021, WOWY, WHUN, and WHUN-FM completed their evolution from 60s-70s oldies to 70s-80s classic hits.WOWY Completes Evolution To Classic Hits
Radioinsight - August 24, 2021

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* HUN (AM) Classic hits radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1947 1947 establishments in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-radio-station-stub