WKFO (1380 AM) is a 24-hour commercially licensed radio station with a maximum power output of 1,000 watts, non-directional. The station, licensed to the county seat of Kittanning, Pennsylvania is wholly owned by Matthew Lightner, through licensee Lightner Communications, based in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Studios, offices and transmitter facilities are located on Bunker Hill Road, in North Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania. History Beginnings as WACB WKFO began broadcasting in 1949 as WACB, with the call letters standing for Armstrong County Broadcasting, the name of the original licensee, headed by its president, Lawrence Henry; and vice president Joseph B. Moore. WACB was the second radio station to come on the air in Armstrong County. The first was WAVL in nearby Apollo the year before; and the third was WKIN, which came on the air later in 1949 at 1600 kHz, but that station would later fail and its license returned to the FCC. Armstrong County Broadcasting sold WACB in December 1964 to WACB, Inc., a company parented by Rosenblum Stations, which also owned WISR in nearby Butler, Pennsylvania. Ray Rosenblum served as president of WACB, Inc. The station signed on the air at first with a power of 500 watts, but was granted permission in 1952 to double that amount, and began operating at its current daytime power in February 1953. WACB broadcast from its debut until about 1965 on Market street in downtown Kittanning. Like many small-town stations in the golden age of radio, the station broadcast news, music, local ball games, and the programs of the day. However, unlike its counterparts, WACB was an independently programmed station, never having any kind of a network audio affiliation until almost the end of the 20th century. It also never had a co-located FM station in its portfolio. Shortly before its 1982 sale, the station moved from its longtime location to 221 Butler Road in West Kittanning. WACB, Inc. ended its 18-year ownership tenure in 1981, when the company agreed to sell the station to its third owner, Nicholas Enterprises of Butler County. The station was sold to the newly formed Nicholas Broadcasting Company for $300,000 by the end of the year. It was during this ownership period that WACB experienced its largest growth until its subsequent sale in 1992. Sale to Nicholas Broadcasting Company Upon purchasing the station, Nicholas Broadcasting Company recognized a need for more space for the station than what