WIEZ

WIEZ (670 kHz AM) is a news/talk radio station broadcasting in Lewistown, Pennsylvania and serving State College, Pennsylvania. It also can be heard in Northern parts of Maryland, and very few parts of Southern New York state. Parts of Eastern Pennsylvania is also covered by this station. Its logo is a variant of the one used by the now-defunct WMAQ/Chicago, which also broadcast on AM 670.

The daytime-only station operates a news/talk format featuring Joy Browne, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity.

Originally WMRF, the station signed on in June, 1941 with 250 Watts on 1490 kHz. The Call Letters stood for the initials of the last name of the ownership at the time. Just after world war II Lewistown Broadcasting Company expanded, applying for an FM in Lewistown and an AM and eventually an FM in Altoona, Pa.

In Lewistown, the FM station was granted and constructed as WLTN-FM on 97.9. The transmitter site for WMRF was moved to the WLTN-FM site in Derry Township (Big Ridge) just north of Lewistown to provide for an economical operation as at the time a Licensed Engineer was required to be on duty when the station was on the air. The FM operation was not financially viable and in 1954 the License was turned back to the FCC. In 1964 the FCC came out with a new allocation table, which included 95.9 for Lewistown, PA. The company applied and received a grant for 95.9 MHz, which signed on as 100% simulcast of WMRF in 1964. WMRF-FM used the original WLTN-FM building but operated from a 60' telephone pole instead of mounting on the WMRF-FM tower. The old WLTN-FM Antenna remained in place until the original tower was dismantled in 1981.