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| Broadcast area | Northwestern Pennsylvania |
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| Branding | Froggy 100.3 and 98.5 |
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| Format | Country |
| Affiliations | Westwood One |
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| WFRA,WHMJ,WUZZ,WKST,WMGW,WRQI,WRQW,WTIV,WXMJ,WYLE | |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | listentofroggy |
WGYY (100.3FM) andWGYI (98.5 FM), branded asFroggy 100.3 and 98.5, arecommercialradio stations inCrawford County inNorthwestern Pennsylvania. Both stationssimulcast acountry musicradio format and are owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC. WGYY islicensed toMeadville, Pennsylvania. WGYI is licensed toOil City, Pennsylvania.
WGYYsigned on the air in 1948 as WMGW-FM, the first FM radio station in Crawford County. It was founded by Meadville physician Dr. Harry C. Winslow. Dr. Winslow chose his daughter's initials (Mary Grace Winslow) for the station'scall letters. WMGW-FM was co-owned withAM 1490WMGW. For the first three decades, WMGW and WMGW-FM mostlysimulcast their programming.
Like many small-town radio stations, WMGW-AM-FM broadcast afull service radio format through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, consisting of local, world and national news, local and Pittsburgh sports, andadult contemporary music. World and national news was provided byABC News and theAssociated Press radio network.
In the early 1970s, WMGW-AM-FM were purchased by the Regional Broadcasters Group headquartered inKingston, New York. The FM station's call sign was changed to WZPR as a tribute to Meadville'sTalon Corporation which, nearly a century earlier, had become America's first manufacturer of "hookless fasteners" orzippers. While WMGW's AM format remained the same, WZPR changed toautomatedbeautiful music, playing quarter hour sweeps of mostly instrumentalcover versions of popular songs.
In 1978, WZPR switched to its current format,country music, eventually taking the WGYY call sign.
On May 1, 1957, WGYI signed on the air.[3] Its original call sign was WDJR and its effective radiated power was 3,400 watts. It mostly simulcast its AM sister station,AM 1340 WKRZ (now 1120 kHzWKQW). WKRZ and WDJR were owned by WKRZ, Inc. and carried programming fromNBC Radio.
It was announced on October 12, 2022 that Forever Media was selling 34 stations, including WGYY/WGYI and the entire Meadville/Franklin cluster, toState College-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.375 million.[4] The deal closed on January 1, 2023.[5]