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Glen Falls radio history question.

T

thebeach33445

Hey Guys:

Thanks for all of your help so far. I would like to ask if anybody can help me with these questions.

1. Was 107.1 WNIQ, WAYI a Top 40 format or Hot AC?

2. When WYLR went from Country to WCQL (Cool Rock 95.9) was it classic rock or AOR?

Thanks for your help on these questions.

T.J.
 
WNIQ which existed from around 1979 until 1986 was Hot A/C, as was WAYI which existed from 1986 until 1993. WYLR was live Classic Rock ("Y96-Classic Rock with a Kick") from October, 1991 until October, 1995 when it abruptly flipped to Country due to an LMA. It returned to Classic Rock in November, 1997 under new ownership as WCQL..."Cool Rock 95.9"...
 
Echoing Time Traveler here...

WNIQ 'Q107' was Hot AC (with the infamous slow cart machines)

WAYI 'Northway 107' I would say tried to have the imaging of, and was musically a Top 40 since they were pretty faithful to the Hot 100 chart, at least from '86 thru early '88. The jocks had more of an AC presentation though. I suppose it's comes down to personal opinions, but 107 was quick with adding new singles and keeping the rotation fresh, despite the jocks always wanting to lean toward playing recurrents. Even for us in Southern Saratoga co., 107.1 was a flip-to station when FLY or GFM was in a stopset.

Best signal of all the Glens Falls FM's at that time (as long as it didn't rain...)

For small market radio, the folks up in Glens Falls did a darn fine job of battling the big sticks from Albany, Rutland & Burlington. No shortage of competition even back then before the 80-90 stations filled the dial. WENU 101.7 came on in '83 with a FS AC format and ultimately cleaned everybody's clock in the area.

Another honorable mention that should be made here is WQQY (102 Double Q) which was a tightly formatted Hot Hits clone briefly before the move out of Saratoga Springs. Great, great, great sounding station! But with that limited signal, never stood a chance against the big guns.
 
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