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| class = A
| facility_id = 4586
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| callsign_meaning = "Where Christ Offers Peace"<ref name="fln-meaning">{{cite web |title=Stations |url=https://www.familylife.org/radio/stations/ |website=[[Family Life Network|Family Life]] |access-date=October 7, 2023}}</ref>
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WRXZ (1981–1985)<br />|WIFI (1985–1988)<br />|WLMI (1988–2010)<br />|WUMT (2010–2011)<br />|WVTT (2011)<br />|WBYB (2011–2017)<br />|WAGL (2017–2019)<br />|WVTT (2019)<br>|WCGH (2019–2021)}}
| owner = [[Family Life Network]]
| licensee = Family Life Ministries, Inc.
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===The fall of WKZA and rise of WLMI===
DespiteEven thewith emergenceFM of FMemerging as the leadingprimary broadcast technology and the fact that WIFI offered listenersproviding local radio service afterfollowing WKZA's then-FCC-mandatedsunset shutdown mandated by the FCC at sunsetthe time, WKZA remainedcontinued to maintain its position as the dominantpredominant local radio serviceprovider. However, and by 1987, WIFI's financesfaced werefinancial depleteddepletion, andleading to the station was takengoing off the air until a newsuitable buyer could be foundsecured.
 
Industrialist Dennis Heindl of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, purchased the station for $105,000 in January 1988 from Mountain Forest Communications. The station was renovated, re-equipped, and reassigned the call letters WLMI, for Laurel Media, Inc. (His manufacturing company was Laurel Manufacturing Inc.) [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1980s/1988/RR-1988-01-22.pdf]
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==External links==
*{{FM station data|4586|WCOP}}
*{{FMQFCC-LMS-Facility|85145|W256BS}}
*{{FXL|W256BS}}
 
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[[Category:Christian radio stations in Pennsylvania|COP]]
[[Category:Radio stations in Pennsylvania|COP]]
[[Category:McKean County, Pennsylvania]]