WCDM
rhythmic contemporary radio station in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
WCDM (106.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Hershey, Pennsylvania, and serving South Central Pennsylvania. The station is owned by the Family Life Network, broadcasting a Christian adult contemporary format, and broadcasts from a transmitter on Tower Road in Elizabethtown.
History
Early years
The station signed on the air on April 13, 1964. Its original call sign was WMSH-FM and it was based in Elizabethtown. WMSH was the sister station to an WEZN (1600 AM).
FM 106.7 became WEPN-FM in 1969 and then WPDC-FM in 1971. In 1980, it switched its call letters to WRKZ and branded as "Z107" with a country music format. The city of license was moved to Hershey and the power was boosted.
In 2002, call letters were changed to WCAT-FM and the station was re-branded as Cat Country 106.7. The WRKZ call letters were moved to 102.3 FM in Carlisle and the two stations began a simulcast.
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