WGET

On August 27, 1950 (1950-08-27), the station first signed on the air. Robert Smith of New Oxford, Pennsylvania was the announcer who put WGET on the air. Twenty years later, he and Lester M. Blair of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania an engineer/announcer were the only two people still working for WGET on August 27, 1970.

The station signed on with power of 250 watts. As an aside, Walter Lane, photographer and amateur radio operator W3KGN in town had a transmitter that produced 275 watts. In March 1961, Judge W.C. Sheeley who had made the principal address at the opening ceremony, pressed a button in the press room of the Hotel Gettysburg which converted WGET from a 250-watt to a 1,000-watt AM station and a 10,000-watt FM station. At one time using a single tower, there are now has three AM towers and a 500-foot FM tower.[1]

In January 1951, WGET affiliated with the short-lived Progressive Broadcasting System radio network.[2] From the 1960s to the 1980s, WGET and later WGET-FM were affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System.[3]

For much of the early 2000s, WGET had a full service, adult contemporary format. In January 2011, the station flipped to a sports radio format as an affiliate of the Fox Sports Radio Network. In June 2013, it switched affiliations to ESPN Radio.

On May 21, 2019, WGET, along with sister station WHVR in York, Pennsylvania, began simulcasting an Adult Contemporary format with the launch of FM translator W229DK at 93.7 FM which rebroadcasts WGET.

On January 1, 2022, WGET and WHVR changed their formats to top 40 (CHR). With this change, they ended their simulcast and are branded as Nu 95.3 and Nu 93.7, respectively..[4]

• WGET website

• WGET in the FCC AM station database
• WGET on Radio-Locator
• WGET in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

• W229DK in the FCC FM station database
• W229DK on Radio-Locator