WRSY

WRSY
City Marlboro, Vermont
Broadcast area Brattleboro, Vermont
Branding The River
Slogan "Different Is Good"
Frequency 101.5 MHz
First air date July 1996[1]
Format Album Adult Alternative
ERP 120 watts
HAAT 227 meters (745 feet)
Class A
Facility ID 17797
Transmitter coordinates 42°50′46″N 72°41′16″W / 42.84611°N 72.68778°W / 42.84611; -72.68778
Callsign meaning similar to WRSI
Former callsigns WAIG (1994-1996)
WSSH (1996-2001)
WRSY (2001-present)[2]
Owner Saga Communications
(Saga Communications of New England, LLC)
Sister stations WINQ, WKVT-FM, WRSI
Webcast Listen Live
Website http://www.wrsi.com/

WRSY (101.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Marlboro, Vermont.[3] The station is owned by Saga Communications.

WRSY airs an Adult Album Alternative radio format, via a simulcast of 93.9 WRSI in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. WRSY is heard in Southeastern Vermont and Southwestern New Hampshire.

History

When it was being built, the station first took its call sign WAIG on May 20, 1994, and changed to WSSH on March 1, 1996. It officially launched in July 1996, airing a Soft Adult Contemporary format, simulcast with 95.3 WZSH in Hartford, Vermont (now WZLF).[4]

Vox purchased the stations from Dynacom in 1999.[5] Vox switched WSSH to the WRSI simulcast on February 1, 2001.[6] The station was granted the WRSY call sign on April 12.[2] Saga acquired WRSI and WRSY in 2003.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Info" (PDF). www.americanradiohistory.com. 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. ↑ "Winter 2010 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  4. ↑ Fybush, Scott (August 19, 1996). "Cape Stations Sabotaged". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ Fybush, Scott (August 6, 1999). "Sales Galore!". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  6. ↑ Fybush, Scott (February 5, 2001). "River Flows to New Home". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  7. ↑ Fybush, Scott (December 29, 2003). "Saga Adds in Pioneer Valley". NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved March 8, 2010.


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