Classic rock and oldies The station got its
construction permit in the mid-1980s after the debut of its original AM sister station, 1460
WEMR (now WGMM). There was no radio station on the air at that time in
Wyoming County, until a consortium of local business leaders pooled their resources together to put WEMR on the air. The new company, known as Endless Mountain Broadcasting, Inc., decided to add an FM station. The construction permit was given the
call sign WEMR-FM. One of the investors in Endless Mountain Broadcasting was local
Chevrolet dealer
Don Sherwood, who was also on the local school board for 23 years. He would go on to serve in the
United States House of Representatives for eight years. The station
signed on the air on October 10, 1990. By then, the call letters had changed to WYMK. It was staffed by a live, local disc jockeys and subscribed to Unistar's (now
Westwood One's) "Adult Rock 'n Roll"
classic rock format. It used the moniker "Y-107". In 1997, Endless Mountain Broadcasting put WEMR and WYMK up for sale. Both stations were purchased by
Citadel Broadcasting. Shortly after the purchase, the operations for both stations were moved to Wilkes-Barre from their original home at the WEMR transmitter site on Wilmar Drive in
Tunkhannock. The call letters were changed from WEMR-FM in 2002 to WCWY, and then to WBZR two years later, to WGMF in 2006, and then to WGMF-FM in June 2009. As WGMF-FM, the station was branded as "GEM 107.7" and broadcast an
oldies format.
Family Life Network WGMF-FM was sold to the
Family Life Network, which airs a
Christian contemporary format on multiple radio stations in Pennsylvania and New York State. On July 21, 2009, the station started broadcasting its programming. The call sign was changed to WCIG.
Bigfoot Legends In 2021, the Family Life Network exchanged WCIG to Seven Mountains Media in exchange for five stations in
Elmira and
Olean, New York. WCIG changed its call letters to WLGD on June 15, 2021. Ten days later, on June 25, 2021, WLGD dropped Family Life Network programming and began
stunting with a loop of "
Gone Country" by
Alan Jackson. On July 2, 2021, at 10 a.m., WLGD ended stunting and launched a
classic country format. It was branded as "Bigfoot Legends 107.7". On January 19, 2022, WLGD began simulcasting on
WARM (590 AM) in Scranton. That included WARM's
FM translator, W269CF at 101.7 MHz.
Rock 107 simulcast Times-Shamrock Communications agreed to acquire WLGD for $300,000 in May 2024. On May 31, 2024, WLGD changed its format to a simulcast of Times-Shamrock's classic rock-formatted
WEZX (Rock 107). Seven Mountains Media retained WARM, ==References==