WNYY

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WNYY
WNYY PureOldies1470-94.1 logo.png
Broadcast area Ithaca area
Frequency 1470 kHz
BrandingPure Oldies 94.1 & AM 1470
Programming
Format Oldies
Ownership
Owner
  • Saga Communications
  • (Saga Communications of New England, LLC)
WFIZ, WQNY, WHCU, WYXL, WIII
History
First air date
1956 (as WTKO)
Former call signs
WTKO (1956-2005)
Technical information
Facility ID 32391
Class B
Power 5,000 watts day
1,000 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 42°23′32″N76°28′29″W / 42.39222°N 76.47472°W / 42.39222; -76.47472
Translator(s) 94.1 W231DK (Ithaca)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website pureoldies941.com

WNYY (1470 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Ithaca, New York, United States, the station serves the Ithaca area. The station is owned by Saga Communications, and operates as part of its Cayuga Radio Group. [1]

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History

WNYY, most commonly known as "Pure Oldies 94.1" was owned by a local company as part of an AM/FM combo with WQNY 103.7 FM, then under the call letters of WTKO and featuring an oldies format. The AM/FM combo was one of two in the Ithaca market - the other being what is now co-owned WYXL 97.3 FM and WHCU 870 AM. The two combos were combined under the Eagle Broadcasting Company, before Saga bought out the company and its four stations in 2005.

The WNYY call letters were put in place after Saga's purchase in 2005, and it was initially launched as a sports station. WNYY also carried programming from the now-defunct Air America network, which filed for bankruptcy in January 2010. After its iteration as a sports station, WNYY ran an all-syndicated lineup consisting mostly of progressive hosts, with some exceptions ( The Dave Ramsey Show being the most prominent, airing in afternoon drive). From March 2010 through January 2017, WNYY was one of several progressive talk stations in Saga Communications' portfolio, others including WHMP and its two simulcast partners in western Massachusetts, and WKVT in southeastern Vermont.

WNYY’s return to the FM airwaves coincided with the launch of sister station WQNY’s Progressive Talk on its HD2 channel. WNYY had been on the W277BS 103.3 FM translator of WYXL before Saga began using the frequency for WYXL's HD2 channel, Hits 103.3. The use of WQNY-HD2 overcame a tight night pattern on the 1470 AM frequency.

In January 2017, Saga announced that it would change WNYY's format back to oldies on February 1. The company stated that many of the programs carried by the station were no longer in syndication, rendering the station unable to provide a full schedule of progressive talk programming; in an unusual move, Saga Communications directed listeners to community radio station WRFI and to the Internet, where many of the shows that are no longer syndicated now air. [2]

On February 1, 2017, WNYY changed their format from progressive talk to oldies, branded as "Pure Oldies 94.1" (simulcast on FM translator W231DK 94.1 FM Ithaca). [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "WNYY Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ Reynolds, Nick (January 11, 2017). "A Progressive Talk Station Goes Off Air. No, It's Not A Conspiracy". Ithaca Times . Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ WNYY to Drop Liberal Talk For Oldies Radioinsight - January 12, 2017)
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