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==History==
WDCZ was launched on October 14, 1924 as WEBR. [[Fran Striker]], later famous for co-creating the [[Lone Ranger]], worked for the station in the early 1930s when it was an affiliate of the [[Blue Network]] (later the [[American Broadcasting Company]]). The station was a commercial operation for its first five decades on air, competing (generally with a measure of success, despite the weakness of its highly directional signal) against competing Buffalo stations. At at least two points in its history it was a sister station to [[WBEN (AM)|WBEN]], during the times when regulatory rules allowed it.
The station changed formats and owners (one of which was the ''[[Buffalo Courier-Express]]'') in the early 1970s until the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association bought WEBR and sister station WREZ-FM (now [[WNED-FM]]) in 1975. The station adopted an (almost) all-news format a year later (although an evening and overnight jazz program, Jazz In The Nighttime with Al Wallack, remained on the air). In 1993 the station was renamed WNED and all non-news programming was dropped.<ref>Buffalo Broadcasters website [http://www.buffalobroadcasters.com/hist_webr.asp History of WEBR/WNED 1924 to 1998] ''Buffalo Broadcasters Association'' Retrieved 29 December 2012</ref>
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