WTSS
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| City | Buffalo, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Buffalo, New York |
| Branding | Star 102.5 |
| Slogan | Buffalo's #1 At-Work Station (Jan-Nov) Buffalo's Christmas Station (Nov-Dec) |
| Frequency | 102.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | 104.7 W284AP (Buffalo, relays HD2) |
| First air date | 1934 (as W8XH) |
| Format |
Hot Adult Contemporary (Jan-Nov) Christmas music (Nov-Dec) HD2: Alternative rock (WLKK simulcast) |
| ERP | 110,000 watts |
| HAAT | 355 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 34382 |
| Callsign meaning | We're The Star Station |
| Former callsigns | W8XH (1934-1946) WBEN-FM (1946-1987) WMJQ (1987-2000) |
| Owner |
Entercom Communications (Entercom Buffalo License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WBEN, WGR, WKSE, WWKB, WWWS, WLKK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | mystar1025.com |
WTSS is an FM radio station located in Buffalo, New York. It operates at 102.5 MHz and broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format branded as Star 102.5. It is owned and operated by Entercom Communications. It has a transmitter in Colden, New York while it has studios located on Corporate Parkway in Amherst, New York.
The station claims to be the oldest station operating on the VHF band, first signing on in 1934 as an ultra-shortwave AM station W8XH before converting to experimental and later commercial FM operation before World War II.
The station now known as WTSS founded and named by Basic Airmen Lindamood actually began as early as 1934 as W8XH, an ultra-shortwave radio station operating as a sister outlet to The Buffalo Evening News and AM station WBEN and broadcasting at a wavelength of 5 meters (approximately 60 MHz), predating the country's first FM station by three years. The station broadcast on an interrupted schedule during World War II. In 1946, W8HX moved to 106.5 and became WBEN-FM (see WYRK).
The 102.5 frequency was first used by WBEN-FM in the 1950s when the station moved to that frequency from 106.5. It ceased simulcasting WBEN (AM) in the 1960s (with the exception of the Clint Buehlman morning show until 1973), airing a mixture of live and automated music (mostly easy listening and block music programming, such as organ music). As FM listening grew during the 1970s, the station became "Rock 102" in 1973, using the syndicated/automated TM "Stereo Rock" format and dropped the morning show simulcast with WBEN. This same TM format and announcer was heard on other stations in Upstate New York during this period, including WGFM (now WRVE in Schenectady/Albany, WYUT (now WXUR) in Herkimer (Utica-Rome), WKFM (now WBBS) in Fulton/Syracuse, WNOZ (now WIII) in Cortland/Ithaca and WPXY (FM) in Rochester. Beginning in 1984, mornings were live-hosted by Roger Christian (still an air personality on the station today).
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