WCCY AM 1400 Houghton

Slogan/Positioner: All-Star Radio

Format: Adult Standards

Web site: www.wccy.com

E-mail: visit web site

Class: C
Power / # of Towers: 1,000 watts / 1 / omnidirectional
Unlimited operations

FCC technical information:

• engineering data
• station details

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Call Sign History:

• WCCY: 5/1/1979
• WHDF:

Call Sign Origin:

On Air Date: 1929

Owner: Houghton Community Broadcasting

Telephone: (906) 482-7700

Notes/History:

• 3/2011: Announced that Heartland Communications is selling its trio of Houghton radio stations (classic hits WOLV-FM 97.7, country WHKB-FM 102.3, and standards WCCY AM 1400) for $535,000 to Houghton Community Broadcasting. Stephen Marks is listed as the sole stockholder, officer, and director of Houghton Community Broadcasting; he also owns ABC/CW affiliates WBUP-TV 10 Ishpeming/WBKP-TV 5 Calumet (as Lake Superior Community Broadcasting) and CBS affiliate WBKB-TV 11 Alpena (as Thunder Bay Broadcasting) in Michigan in addition to a number of radio and TV stations in Montana, North Dakota, and Virginia. FCC approves sale in April and it closes in June.
• 11/10/2004: FCC approves sale to Heartland Communications.
• 8/25/2004: Tu-Mar Broadcasting agrees to sell WOLV-FM 97.7, WHKB-FM 102.3, and WCCY-AM 1400 Houghton to Heartland Communications in a stock sale valued at $1,627,000 pending FCC approval.

Center of antenna array/transmitter location:

Houghton County

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