WNBT-FM (104.5
MHz
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) and WZBF (96.9 MHz), "Bigfoot Country 96 - 104 - 107") are two
radio station
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s broadcasting a
country music
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radio format
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. WNBT-FM is
licensed
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to
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Wellsboro is a borough in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The borough was founded by Benjamin Wistar Morris. It is located northwest of Williamsport. The population was 3,472 at the 2020 census.
Early in the 20th century, Wellsboro was the shipp ...
, and WZBF is licensed to Ridgebury, Pennsylvania. The stations are part of a
quadcast serving
Pennsylvania
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's
Northern Tier and
New York's
Southern Tier, including the
Elmira -
Corning radio market
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. They are owned by Kristin Cantrell (doing business as Seven Mountains Media), through licensee Southern Belle, LLC.
History
WNBT-FM began as the FM sister station of Farm & Home Broadcasting Company-owned WNBT (now WNDA) with the call letters WGCR-FM. The station was initially granted a construction permit to operate at the frequency of 97.7 Mhz at an effective radiated power of a thousand watts in August 1968. In 1973, the FCC granted permission for WGCR-FM to drop the 'FM' from its call letters, change its city of license from Wellsboro to "Wellsboro-Mansfield", and change its dial position from 97.7 to 104.5 mHz, with a power increase to 50,000 watts.
In May 2017, WNBT-FM changed their format from hot adult contemporary (branded as "The Buzz") to country, branded as "Bigfoot Country 104.5".
On July 9, 2018, WNBT-FM began simulcasting on WZBF 96.9 FM Ridgebury (formerly adult contemporary-formatted WVYS "Yes FM").
Bigfoot Expands in North Central Pennsylvania
Radioinsight - July 10, 2018
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