Early years The station
signed on the air on April 13, 1964. Its original
call sign was WMSH-FM and it was based in
Elizabethtown. WMSH was the
sister station to an AM outlet at 1600
kHz. FM 106.7 became WEPN-FM in 1969 and then WPDC-FM in 1971. In 1980, it switched its call letters to WRKZ and branded as "Z107" with a
country music format. The
city of license was moved to Hershey and the power was boosted. In 2002, call letters were changed to WCAT-FM and the station was re-branded as Cat Country 106.7. The WRKZ call letters were moved to 102.3 FM in
Carlisle and the two stations began a simulcast.
Cool Pop On February 19, 2004, the station changed its call sign to WCPP and rebranded as
Coolpop. This was after over 24 hours of
stunting by playing "
Pop Goes the Weasel" on a continuous loop. Many rumors circulated, trying to explain the loop. There were even rumors of a staff member taking hostages and locking him/herself in the studio and repeatedly playing the song. This proved false when a
Top 40 (CHR) format was launched with "
Hey Ya!" by
Outkast. The original air staff of Coolpop included only one live show, "Michelle & Mitchell" in the morning. The midday and afternoon shifts were
voicetracked by
DJs from
Citadel Broadcasting Company sister station WNTQ 93Q in
Syracuse, New York. By Spring 2004, a full line up of live local talent was hired. Sarah Vaughn on middays and Justin Louis on afternoons were added, along with the live Michelle & Mitchell morning show. Coolpop was marketed as "The World's First Coolpop Station", mixing a standard Mainstream CHR format along with some 1970s and 1980s "Cassette Classics" (later renamed "Coolpop Classics"). Coolpop also alternated theme weekends every other weekend. Some theme weekends included "
One Hit Wonders", "
Diva Doubleplays", "Coolpop Classics", and the popular 1970s-themed "Studio 106.7". In early fall 2004, Michelle & Mitchell were replaced with Ed Coffey and Amy Warner. They had been hosts of a long running morning show from Harrisburg's
WTPA-FM. The pair had been fired from that station earlier in the summer.
Adult Hits and Gen X On July 1, 2005, Coolpop was suddenly replaced with an
Adult Hits format branded as
Mix 106.7. On April 9, 2010, Mix 106.7 was flipped to
Channel 106.7, and was reformatted with a 1980s and 1990s Hits/Gen X format. Citadel merged with
Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.
Z Country and Nash-FM The Gen X format was dropped on January 20, 2012 at 1:06 p.m. At that point, the station became WZCY-FM "Z Country 106.7." The last song on Channel 106.7 was
Bye Bye Bye by
*Nsync, and the first song on Z Country 106.7 was
This Is Country Music by
Brad Paisley. On February 3, 2014, at 12 p.m., WZCY-FM, along with nine other Cumulus-owned country music stations, made the switch to "
Nash FM" branding as
Nash FM 106.7. The final song on Z Country 106.7 was ''
Prayin' for Daylight by Rascal Flatts, while the first song on Nash FM 106.7 was How Country Feels'' by
Randy Houser.
Top 40 and Rhythmic Contemporary On March 15, 2018, at 2PM, WZCY-FM flipped back to
contemporary hit radio as "Hot 106.7". This was part of a format swap with
WWKL "Hot 93.5" which concurrently took on the
Nash FM branding and a gold-based country format. The last song on "Hot 93.5" was “
Young Dumb & Broke” by
Khalid, while the first song on "Hot 106.7" was "
Finesse" by
Bruno Mars and
Cardi B. This move was intended to reduce signal overlap and redundancy with co-owned country station
WIOV-FM 105.1 in
Ephrata. WIOV-FM serves the Lancaster, York, and Reading metropolitan areas. The stronger signal on 106.7 was thought to be more competitive with
iHeartMedia's competing Top 40 outlet
WHKF in Harrisburg. iHeartMedia subsequently responded by flipping WHKF to
alternative rock and redirecting its listeners to sister station
WLAN-FM 96.9 in Lancaster. WLAN-FM similarly pivoted to serving the entire South Central Pennsylvania
media market. It took advantage of WWKL's sister station 105.7
WQXA’s decision to shift from
Alternative Rock to
Mainstream Rock after WTPA-FM was sold to the
Educational Media Foundation and flipped to "
K-Love," the national
Contemporary Christian network, in January 2018. In April 2024, WWKL shifted its format from Top 40/CHR to rhythmic contemporary. It continues to call itself "Hot 106.7." ==Signal note==