WLYC
| City | Williamsport, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Williamsport, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | Fox Sports Williamsport |
| Slogan | The Susquehanna Valley Sports Leader |
| Frequency | 1050 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 92.7 W224AI (Loyalsock) |
| First air date | 1951 |
| Format | Sports |
| Power |
1,000 watts day 30 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 52187 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°15′44.00″N 77°01′59.00″W / 41.2622222°N 77.0330556°W |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio |
| Owner |
Todd Bartley (Colonial Radio Group of Williamsport, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WEJS |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | foxsportswilliamsport.com |
WLYC (1050 AM) is a sports radio station in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, branded as Fox Sports Radio 1050. WLYC's first air date was June 26, 1951. The station is owned by Colonial Radio Group of Williamsport.
History
WLYC has been Williamsport's all-sports radio station since January 1, 2005, and carries local sports talk (The Locker Room from 4pm-5pm) and Jed Donahue from 5pm-7pm. The remainder of WLYC's schedule comes from a satellite feed.
WLYC is the flagship station for athletic programs at Lycoming College and the Pennsylvania College of Technology, as well as Williamsport Crosscutters Baseball and in-game reports from the Little League World Series. WLYC also serves as an affiliate of the Mansfield University Mountaineer Sports Network. Previously, WLYC served as the flagship station and network coordinator for Lock Haven University athletics.
WLYC is also the flagship (online) station for athletic programs at Wilkes University and Misericordia University.
WLYC has seen a variety of formats through the years; it has been an Adult Contemporary/Adult Standards station (2002–2004); a talk station (1999–2002) during which the nationally syndicated Travel World Radio Show was its highest-rated program; Classic Country (1997–1999); Music of Your Life station (1972–1997); and Top 40, along with various other formats prior to that.
Mike Yoder was the morning show host for 13 years. Other disc jockeys have included Lou Kolb, Vanessa Hunter, Kelly Watts (3 different times) Dr. Jay Richards and Dee Clark.
Prior to September 2010, a consortium of Jeff Andrulonis, Daniel Klingerman and Larry Allison, Jr. owned the station and operated it as a subsidiary of Andrulonis's Colonial Radio Group (now Colonial Media and Entertainment). Andrulonis sold his stake in the station in September 2010 but allowed the other partners to continue using the Colonial name. Klingerman and Allison, in turn, sold the station to Todd Bartley, its longtime general manager, in late 2013, continuing to use the Colonial name in its ownership moniker.
On March 1, 2017 WLYC switched affiliations from ESPN Radio to Fox Sports Radio.