WCED
| City | DuBois, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Branding | "Connect FM 96.7 & 107.9" |
| Frequency | 1420 (kHz) |
| Translator(s) | W244CH (96.7, Rockton) W300BR (107.9, DuBois) |
| First air date | February 1941 |
| Format | News, talk, sports |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 5 watts (night) |
| Callsign meaning | W Continental Eastern Divide |
| Owner | Priority Communications |
| Website | www |
WCED (1420 AM, "News Talk Radio WCED") is a commercial radio station, licensed to the city of DuBois, Pennsylvania. WCED broadcasts with a power output of 5,000 watts non-directional day and 5 watts at night using a two-tower directional antenna system. WCED and its FM sister station WDSN are owned and operated by Priority Communications of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
For much of its existence, WCED was the sister station of FM station WOWQ, also licensed to DuBois, which had a country music format and was known by the moniker Q102. The stations were owned by Derrick Publishing, of Oil City, Pennsylvania, which did business as Tri-County Broadcasting and also published the Oil City Derrick newspaper.
WCED became known for its full-service approach to local programming for both DuBois and the tri-county area, which includes Clearfield, Jefferson, and Elk counties. It also became the local radio outlet for ABC News, airing Paul Harvey and other full-service network program offerings. The station also offered music formats such as CHR, oldies, nostalgia, and some talk, but the station would go to a news and talk format after its sale to Priority Communications.
WCED and WOWQ were among the first stations in the country to use computer-based hard-disk audio storage technology in the early 1990s.
In 1999, both stations were sold to Vox Media. Vox sold WOWQ to First Media and then WCED in 2003 to Priority Communications, which had been operating competitor WDSN since its first air date on February 14, 1990. First Media had been operating WCED under an LMA, but had no interest in owning it.
WCED moved to a new, nearby building and vacated the former DuBois Lumber Company office building after the sale to Priority. The purchase price for WCED was $150,000, according to FCC records. In 2003, WCED moved from 80 North Park Place to 51 West Long Avenue in DuBois, where it shared space with WDSN temporarily until a new facility conducive to a news/talk formatted radio station could be found. Priority Communications negotiated a deal for an old bank building at 12 West Long Avenue, down the street from its original location. Both stations were moved into the new, state-of-the-art facility by the end of 2004.
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