WYCR (98.5 FM, "Rocky 98.5") is a commercial FM

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licensed to serve

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Forever Media, through licensee FM Radio Licenses, LLC, and broadcasts a

classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primar ...

format. Its broadcast tower is located near Hanover at (). WYCR programming is simulcast on sister station WRKY and WRKY's translator on 92.5 MHz in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. WYCR airs '' Nights with Alice Cooper'' on weekdays and '' The House of Hair with Dee Snider'' on Saturdays.

History

The

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granted Radio Hanover, Inc. a construction permit for the station on June 15, 1960 with the WHVR-FM call sign. The station was granted its first license on December 27, 1962 by which time the call sign had been changed to WYCR. On December 14, 2004, the station changed formats from

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(CHR) to

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, and switched branding from "98YCR" to "98.5 The Peak". On March 1, 2016, Radio Hanover Inc. sold WYCR (and

WHVR WHVR (1280 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Hanover, Pennsylvania, serving the York radio market. The station is owned by Forever Media, through licensee FM Radio Licenses, LLC and is stunting with a Christmas music radio format, known a ...

) to Forever Media for $2.6 million. The new owner changed WYCR's format to

and re-branded the station as "Rocky 98.5" on April 25, 2016. Following the consummation of Forever Media's purchase of WONN-FM, WLPA and WLPA's translator on October 15, 2021, WLPA and its translator began a simulcast of WYCR programming. WLPA’s call sign was subsequently changed to WRKY effective November 1, 2021.

Simulcast

One AM station

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s the programming of WYCR:

Signal note

WYCR is short-spaced to two other Class B stations:

WKRZ WKRZ (98.5 FM, "98.5 KRZ") is a commercial radio station licensed to Freeland, Pennsylvania, and serving the Wilkes-Barre - Scranton - Northeastern Pennsylvania radio market. It has aired a Top 40/CHR radio format since 1980. The station is ow ...

''98.5 KRZ'' (licensed to serve Freeland, Pennsylvania) operates on the same channel as WYCR and the distance between the stations' transmitters is 110 miles as determined by FCC rules. The minimum distance between two Class B stations operating on the same channel according to current FCC rules is 150 miles.

WMZQ-FM WMZQ-FM (98.7 FM) is a commercial radio station in Washington, D.C. owned by iHeartMedia. It has had a country music radio format since 1977. The studios and offices are located on Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland. The transmitter is on To ...

''98.7 WMZQ'' (licensed to serve

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) operates on 98.7 MHz, a first adjacent channel to WYCR, and the distance between the stations' transmitters is 68 miles as determined by FCC rules. The minimum distance between two Class B stations operating on first adjacent channels according to current FCC rules is 105 miles.

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* * {{Classic Rock Radio Stations in Pennsylvania YCR Classic rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1962 1962 establishments in Pennsylvania