WHGB

WHGB (1400 AM, "95.3 Nash Icon") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it serves the greater Harrisburg metropolitan area. It broadcast under the call sign WFEC for many years. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media.

History

The station was first assigned the call sign WHGB when it signed on in 1945. It became WFEC (for owner Florida East Coast broadcasting its then owner) in 1963 featuring a Top 40 format. In 1982 owned by Great Scott Broadcasting after a series of failed country, disco and urban formats (beginning in 1977), it returned to Top 40 and adopted the Mike Joseph format called Hot Hits in response to the success of WCAU-FM in Philadelphia with that approach. Although WFEC featured the basics of the Hot Hits format to the letter, it was not consulted by Joseph himself. During the Hot Hits era, the station was known as Fire 14. On February 3, 1983, the station changed its call sign back to WHGB. For much of the 80s it featured Al Ham's "The Music of Your Life" pop standards format along with substantial local sports play by play.