WRIE

In 1938, the Presque Isle Broadcasting Company was formed and filed for a construction permit to build a new radio station on 1500 kHz in Erie.

[6] During construction, the permit was adjusted to a new frequency of 1490 kHz due to NARBA,[3] and a change in equipment manufacturer from RCA to Western Electric also pushed back completion.

[3][12] After a second sale to WERC, Inc., in September 1961, the station was relaunched with a new call sign, WWYN, and an oldies sound featuring music from the big band era.

[22] Media One was part of the local radio market's rapid consolidation in the late 1990s; it acquired country music station WXTA and hoped to merge with Rambaldo Communications to form a five-station cluster.

However, that deal fell apart after the United States Department of Justice ordered the divestiture of an FM station in the process, and Media One instead sold its properties to Regent Communications in 1999.

[23] In 2004, Regent traded its Erie stations and two others in Lancaster to Citadel Broadcasting in exchange for that company's holdings in Bloomington, Illinois.

[25] In January 2013, as part of a national move by Cumulus (which had acquired Citadel in 2011), WRIE switched to CBS Sports Radio programming.