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WICU (1310 AM; "Happi Radio") is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to Warren, Pennsylvania , United States, the station is a simulcast of Erie -based WICU-FM (92.7); its programming is also heard on translator station W244DY (96.7 FM ).
WICU-FM (92.7 MHz) is a contemporary hit radio-formatted radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania, licensed to Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania, under the ownership of SJL Broadcasting (a sister company to Lilly Broadcasting). It uses the moniker "Happi 927". WICU-FM is simulcast in Warren on Lilly-owned WICU (1310 AM and 96.7 FM).
On March 1, 2009, the last station formally owned by SJL, WICU, transferred its copyrights to Lilly Broadcasting when it merged its news operations with crosstown sister station WSEE-TV. Though SJL still technically exists (and still ostensibly owns WICU), its visible operations have now been subsumed by Lilly Broadcasting.
In 1952, Lamb purchased WIKK radio (1330 AM, later WICU and now WFNN), giving channel 12 a sister station on radio. WICU-TV's longtime facility on State Street south of downtown Erie, which also includes the headquarters of Lilly Broadcasting itself. WICU-TV held a monopoly on Erie television until WSEE signed-on in 1954 as a CBS affiliate.
Shannon was born in Buffalo, New York, [2] and graduated from Bishop Timon – St. Jude High School in 1956 and Buffalo State College in 1960. [1] He held several radio positions, beginning his career as a newsman at WXRA and ending as an oldies jockey at WHTT in the same city.
Erie's unique position along the shores of Lake Erie can offer a wide variety of over-the-air television stations. Canada's CityTV (from its Woodstock, Ontario transmitter CITY-DT-2), CTV 2 (via CFPL-DT) and CBC Television (via CBLT-DT's repeater, CBLN) from London, Ontario can be viewed in portions of downtown Erie and areas north of Interstate 90.
After spending more than 30 years as a meteorologist at NexStar's WJET/WFXP, DiVecchio officially began his new career with Lilly Broadcasting's Erie News Now at the beginning of September.
The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is flagshipped at WGR (AM 550). Chris Brown (who previously called play-by-play for the Buffalo Bulls football and Buffalo Destroyers arena football teams before joining the Bills as a studio host) is the current play-by-play announcer. Eric Wood serves as the color analyst.