WLCY-FM

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WLCY
Broadcast area	Indiana, Kittanning, Latrobe, PA
Branding	"Cat Country 106.3"
Slogan	Today's Best Country for Indiana, Westmoreland, and Armstrong Counties!
First air date	February 1, 1979 (as WCQO)
Frequency	106.3 (MHz)
Format	Country
ERP	2,850 watts
Callsign meaning	We Love Country of Yesterday and Today
Owner	Renda Broadcasting
Website	http://www.catcountry1063.com

WLCY-FM is a country radio station serving Indiana, Cambria, Armstrong and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania.

Contents 1 The "Lucky-FM" Years 2 As "Cat Country 106.3" 3 Bobcat Radio Network 4 Historical Note 5 On Air Schedule 5.1 Monday-Friday 5.2 Saturday 5.3 Sunday 5.4 Seasonal Programming 6 Radio Personalites 7 Cat Lines

[edit] The "Lucky-FM" Years

Though the station became widely recognized as "Lucky FM" when it debuted in 1989, the station had originally signed on as WCQO-FM back in September of 1983 with a nostalgia/MOR format. The station then switched ownership in 1987 and took the call letters WNQQ, billing themselves as "Wink FM". The format started to incorporate more current music in its library, but failed to make any momentum. That all changed in November of 1989.

John Longo, an industry veteran who came up through the ranks over the years, starting as a disc jockey in 1959, purchased WNQQ for $485,000. Signing an agreement with the former Drake Chenault Radio Network (now Jones Radio Network), the station signed on as "Lucky 106.3", with the new WLCY call letters and a soft adult contemporary format. Longo had purchased an AM station, WCNS-AM in Latrobe, in January of that year, which is where he started his own broadcast career.

Through an aggressive print and signage promotional campaign, WLCY for the first time started to see real growth as the station gained momentum as an office music favorite in Indiana and Westmoreland Counties. While a very successful enterprise that demonstrated long-term profitability for Longo's company, Longo Media Group, Longo decided to sell the station to Pittsburgh-based Renda Broadcasting Corporation for $900,000.

[edit] As "Cat Country 106.3"

In Late-2005, Forever Broadcasting signed a deal with Renda Broadcasting for WLCY to turn into a country radio station like WFGI's format. In January 2006, the deal was accepted, and WLCY became a country radio station with Forever Broadcasting and renamed it "Cat Country 106.3". The country radio station is very similar to WFGI's format, minus 10 in a rows, and 50-minute music hours (like WFGI's brother network Y108). Forever Broadcasting dropped the part-time ownership on the station in September '06.

[edit] Bobcat Radio Network

For lots of time, WLCY is the voice of the Blairsville Bobcats. WLCY has broadcasted every single Bobcat Football and Basketball game since 1980.

[edit] Historical Note

WLCY radio began as WLCY AM 1380 in St. Petersburg, Fla. and was owned by the Rahall Company. It was affectionately known as "Fun Radio 138!" all during the 60's & was the #1 listened to radio station in Tampa Bay! I grew up with WLCY Fun Radio virtually 'glued' on my transistor radio! It was "THE" station to listen to from 1960 to 1980 when I moved to Minnesota. Sadly, WLCY Fun Radio 138 is now a memory. But what a fantastic one it is!

- Phil Colaianni - (Minneapolis)

[edit] On Air Schedule

[edit] Monday-Friday

6am-10am: Chuck Clark

10am-3pm: Bill Cody (featuring The Cat Country Lunch Hour)

3pm-7pm: Jim DeCesare

7pm-10pm: Music without a DJ

12mid-6am: AfterMidnite with Blair Gardner

[edit] Saturday

8am: Top 30 CMT Country Countdown with Lon Helton

12pm-3pm: Music without a DJ

3pm-7pm: The Cat Country Diner with George Lucas

7pm: Country Saturday Night

12mid-6am: AfterMidnite Weekend with Larry Morgan

[edit] Sunday

6am-Noon: American Country Countdown

Noon-6pm: In the Liter Box (Vintage Country) with George Lucas

6pm: America's Grand Ole Opra Weekend

8pm: Country Racers

12mid-6am: AfterMidnite Weekend with Larry Morgan

[edit] Seasonal Programming

• The High School Insider (weekends during the school year)
• A Cat Country Christmas (christmas eve)
• The Bobcat Zone (during Football/Basketball season)
• Smith Bus Tips (during the summer)

[edit] Radio Personalites

• Chuck Clark
• Jim Deceasre
• Bill Cody
• George Lucas
• Todd Michaels (fill-in)

[edit] Cat Lines

• Feeback: 724-471-1CAT
• Request/Contests: 724-471-1063