WHAZ-FM
| City of license | Hoosick Falls, New York |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Eastern New York and Southwestern Vermont |
| Slogan | Alive Radio |
| Frequency | 97.5 MHz |
| First air date | July 4, 1991 (as WNGN) |
| Format | Religious |
| ERP | 420 watts |
| HAAT | 361 meters (1,184 ft) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 6765 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Callsign meaning | see WHAZ |
| Former callsigns | WNGN (1991-1998) WZEC (1998-2005) |
| Owner | Capital Media Corporation |
| Sister stations | WHAZ |
| Website | http://www.whaz.com |
WHAZ-FM (97.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious format.[1] Licensed to Hoosick Falls, New York, USA, the station serves the easternmost portion of the Capital District, Bennington, Vermont, and North Adams, Massachusetts as a satellite of WHAZ. The station is currently owned by Capital Media Corporation.[2]
History
The station signed on July 4, 1991 as WNGN, a gospel station owned by Northeast Gospel Broadcasting.[3] The station was sold to Aritaur Communications in 1998,[4] who renamed the station WZEC with the intention of implementing a simulcast of Pittsfield top 40 station WBEC-FM (then at 105.5, now WWEI; now on 95.9).[5] WNGN's programming was then merged into WNGX (91.9), which took the WNGN call letters.[4][5] However, WNGN continued to run WZEC well into 1999, as the sale did not close until June 30; the next day, Aritaur sold WZEC, along with WBEC and WBEC-FM, to Tele-Media Broadcasting,[6] who finally implemented the WBEC-FM simulcast by that September.[7] By the following May, the station had again changed format, this time to a modern adult contemporary format, "The Point", modeled on sister stations WCPT (100.9; now WKLI-FM) and WKBE (then at 100.3, now WFFG-FM; now on 107.1).[8][9] The station was sold to Vox Media in 2002,[10] and shifted to soft adult contemporary in 2004.[11]
Vox sold WZEC to Capitol Media in 2005,[12] who changed the call letters to the current WHAZ-FM and implemented a classic gospel format on November 7,[13][14] before switching to the simulcast of WHAZ by April 2007.[15]
Translators
WHAZ-FM also broadcasts on two translators:
| Call sign | Frequency (MHz) |
City of license | ERP W |
Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W228AU | 93.5 | North Bennington, Vermont | 5 | D | FCC |
| W288AN | 105.5 | Brattleboro, Vermont | 95 | D | FCC |
References
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External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WHAZ
- Radio-Locator information on WHAZ
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WHAZ
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