WKGE was first licensed on March 11, 1925,[2] with the sequentially assigned call letters of WHBP, to the Johnstown Automobile Company at 101 Main Street, broadcasting with 10 watts on 1170 kHz.
[4] On November 11, 1928, as part of the implementation of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, WFBG in Altoona was also assigned to 1310 kHz, and the two stations had to work out a timesharing agreement.
In 2004 Forever Broadcasting moved the calls and format of WNTJ to 850, where it had been operating as a simulcast of the news–talk programming on WNTW in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
Forever Communications announced an agreement to sell WNTJ to Birach Broadcasting Corporation of Southfield, Michigan, with the transfer of ownership finalized by the end of 2007.
In a subsequent application, filed March 3, 2015, Birach requested an additional stay-silent authorization of 90 days while efforts continued to secure a new transmitter, as the current one was constantly failing.
On May 2, 2017, legal IDs returned, plus a message stating that repairs to the facility were underway, so the station would be intermittently be off the air during the next few weeks.
The station's carrier was initially badly distorted; presumably the aging Continental transmitter was having tube issues or possibly overheating.
However, the station's clear null points in the directional pattern remained somewhat consistent (from a distance) with normal parameters.
On that date, WKGE and W267CM began simulcasting Lightner-owned WYUP 1400 AM in Loretto and WPHB 1260 AM in Philipsburg as "107.1 and 104.3 Jack FM" with an adult hits format.