WNAE (104.3

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, "Kinzua Country 104") is an FM

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broadcasting a

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. WNAE is licensed to serve

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. The station is owned by

Lilly Broadcasting Lilly Broadcasting, LLC is a privately owned American broadcasting company owned and operated by the Lilly Brothers’ Brian Lilly and Kevin Lilly. The company was founded in September 1999 with the purchase of WENY-TV (ABC) and WENY-FM & AM ra ...

and features programming from

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History

The

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for this station was first issued on February 2, 1993, to Cary and Betty Simpson, who were the principal owners of the Allegheny Mountain Network, based in

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. It was originally permitted to operate at 106.9 MHz, but at the same operating power it has today. The

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WOVU was assigned on March 29, 1993. On November 7, 1994, WOVU was granted a construction permit to move to 104.3;

WKZA WKZA (106.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format. Licensed to Lakewood, New York, United States, the station serves the Jamestown, New York area. The station is currently owned by MediaOne Radio Group. History The station ...

would later take over the 106.9 frequency. Cary and Betty Simpson sold the WOVU permit to LeRoy Schneck's Kinzua Broadcasting Company, owner of WNAE and

WRRN WRRN (92.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, the station is currently owned by Lilly Broadcasting and features programming from ABC News Radio and Westwood ...

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, for $21,514 in 1994; the sale was completed on February 23, 1995. On July 14, 1995, the station changed its call sign to WKNB. It signed on August 31, 1995, carrying a country music format supplied by the Jones Satellite Network. Kinzua Broadcasting sold its stations to Frank Iorio, who already owned the construction permit for a station on 102.7 FM in Clarendon, in 2005 for $1.25 million; the new station, which took the call sign WNAE-FM, operated as a simulcast of WKNB from 2008 until its sale to the

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in 2010. Following a never-completed sale to Laurel Media in 2017, Iorio (who owned the stations under the name Radio Partners LLC) sold WKNB, WRRN, and WNAE to

for $900,000 in 2019, making them sister stations to

WICU-TV WICU-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by SJL Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Lilly Broadcasting, owner of CBS/The CW Plus, CW+ aff ...

and

WSEE-TV WSEE-TV (channel 35) is a television station in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. It is the flagship television property of locally based Lilly Broadcasting, and is a sister station to NBC affiliate WICU-TV ...

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. Lilly changed the station's call sign to WNAE on March 4, 2020, parking the call sign from its AM sister station to retain rights to the WNAE calls.

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