WIYY (FM)
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| City | Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Broadcast area | Baltimore metropolitan area |
| Branding | Analog/HD1: "98 Rock" HD2: "NewsRadio 1090 WBAL" |
| Slogan | Baltimore's Rock Radio |
| Frequency | 97.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | December 7, 1958 |
| Format | Analog/HD1: Mainstream Rock HD2: News/Talk (WBAL simulcast) |
| ERP | 13,500 watts (analog) 270 watts (digital) |
| HAAT | 288 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65693 |
| Former callsigns | WFDS-FM (1958–1960) WBAL-FM (1960–1977) |
| Owner | Hearst Corporation |
| Sister stations | WBAL, WBAL-TV |
| Webcast |
98 Rock Webstream WBAL AM Webstream (HD2) |
| Website |
98online.com wbal.com (HD2) |
WIYY (97.9 FM, "98 Rock") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Baltimore, Maryland. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation and broadcasts a mainstream rock format. WIYY shares a studio/office facility with sister stations WBAL (1090 AM) and WBAL-TV (channel 11) on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, near the transmission tower it shares with WBAL-TV. WIYY and WBAL are the only two radio stations owned by the Hearst Corporation.
WIYY uses HD Radio, and simulcasts the News/Talk programming of sister station WBAL on its HD2 subchannel.
The 97.9 frequency in Baltimore began in January 1948 as WMAR-FM, owned by the A.S. Abell Company, publishers of the Baltimore Sun and founders of WMAR-TV, Baltimore's first television station. The first station to use those call letters (and not related to the second WMAR-FM at 106.5, now WWMX), WMAR-FM was a collaborative partner of Transit Rides Inc., developer of a music format designed for public transportation and owned by the Cincinnati-based Taft family. After two years on the air, Abell shut down the radio station in June 1950 and turned in its license to the Federal Communications Commission.
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