WGET

WGET (1320 AM) is an Adult Contemporary radio station. Owned by Forever Media, it is licensed to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station formerly carried ESPN Radio, having switched affiliations from Fox Sports Radio in June 2013; the station dropped adult contemporary music in January 2011 but picked it back up on May 21, 2019.

This article is about the radio station. For the download program, see Wget.
WGET
CityGettysburg, Pennsylvania
Broadcast areaGettysburg - York, Pennsylvania
Frequency1320 kHz
1280 kHz (WHVR)
BrandingHappy 1280, 1320 AM & 95.3, 93.7 FM
SloganMy Music, My Station
Programming
FormatAdult Contemporary
Ownership
OwnerForever Media
(FM Radio Licenses, LLC)
Sister stationsWHVR, WYCR, WGTY, WLBR, WFVY
History
First air dateAugust 27, 1950
Call sign meaningW GETtysburg
Technical information
Facility ID67132
ClassB
Power1,000 watts (day)
500 watts (night)
Translator(s)93.7 W229DK (Gettysburg)
Links
WebcastListen Live
WebsiteHappy AM/FM York-Gettysburg

History

WGET first aired on August 27, 1950. Robert Smith of New Oxford, Pennsylvania was the announcer who put WGET on-the-air. Twenty years later, he and Lester M. Blair of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania an engineer/announcer were the only two people still working for WGET on August 27, 1970.

The station signed on with power of 250 watts. As an aside, Walter Lane, photographer and amateur radio operator W3KGN in town had a transmitter that produced 275 watts. In March 1961, Judge W.C. Sheeley who had made the principal address at the opening ceremony, pressed a button in the press room of the Hotel Gettysburg which converted WGET from a 250-watt to a 1,000-watt AM station and a 10,000-watt FM station. At one time using a single tower, there are now has three AM towers and a 500-foot FM tower.[1]

In January 1951, WGET affiliated with the short-lived Progressive Broadcasting System radio network.[2] From the 1960s to the 1980s, WGET and later WGET-FM were affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System.[3]

On May 21, 2019, WGET, along with WHVR in York, Pennsylvania, began simulcasting each other and are now broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format with the new launch of W229DK, 93.7 FM which simulcasts WGET.

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References
  1. Twenty Year tribute to WGET
  2. "WGET to Progressive" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 1, 1951. p. 28. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  3. "MBS Tribute Site".


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