City Edinboro, Pennsylvania Branding Nash FM 97.9 First air date 1989 | Broadcast area Erie, Pennsylvania Frequency 97.9 MHz | |
Slogan Erie's Country Music Station | ||
WXTA (97.9 FM) is a commercial radio station located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, broadcasting to the Erie, Pennsylvania, area. WXTA airs a country music format branded as "Nash FM".
History
Signing-on in October 1988 as WMYJ, the station operated with an Adult Contemporary format for a year as "Y-98."
WMYJ was purchased by Bob Winters (WinCapp Broadcasting) over the summer of 1989. The format switch to country happened at noon on September 11, 1989 and the station took the calls WXTA.
WXTA was sold to Media One Group in 1996, Regent Communications in 1999, Citadel Broadcasting in 2004, and Cumulus Media in 2011.
Former air personalities at WXTA include "Uncle Fred" Horton, Bobby Reed, Ron Kline, Mike McKay, Natalie Massing, John Cunningham, "Big John" Jacobs, Ed Beeler, Bobbi Weston, Brian Williams, Rick Shigo, Chris Atkins, Dale Thompson, Chet Price, Bill Shannon, Laura Luke, Jim Mirabello, Adam Reese, John Gallagher, Tom Lavery, Sammy James, Jay Foyst, Herb Palmer, Dan "Shoeless" Sheldon, Ellie McVay, Truckin' Tom, Cindy Wear, Becca Lynn and the syndicated "Big D & Bubba."
Former syndicated programming on WXTA includes "After Midnite with Blair Garner", "Country Gold Saturday Night" and "Neon Nights with Lia".
Morning Personality "Uncle Fred" Horton died on March 4, 2008.
Current on-air personalities include Mike Sheffield, Jim Griffey, Nicole Dohoda and Chuck Stevens. Stevens is also the stations Program Director.
On Air features include Sheffield in the Morning (Mike Sheffield), Country Cartunes at 5, Kickin' it with Kix (Kix Brooks), and Retro Country.
On February 3, 2014 WXTA along with 9 other Cumulus owned country music stations, made the switch to going under the Nash FM branding.