WUTI
| City | Utica, New York |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Utica, New York |
| Frequency | 1150 kHz |
| First air date | April 24, 1948 |
| Last air date | May 23, 2013 |
| Format | Defunct |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 73969 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°10′31.00″N 75°21′3.00″W / 43.1752778°N 75.3508333°WCoordinates: 43°10′31.00″N 75°21′3.00″W / 43.1752778°N 75.3508333°W |
| Callsign meaning | UTIca |
| Former callsigns | WRUN (1948-2009) |
| Owner | Leatherstocking Media Group |
WUTI (1150 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a talk format. Licensed to Utica, New York, USA, the station, established in 1948 as WRUN, was last owned by Leatherstocking Media Group, Inc., and simulcast with WFBL in Syracuse until going off the air in 2013.
WUTI signed on April 24, 1948 as WRUN, under the ownership of the Rome Sentinel. The Sentinel was concerned that the Utica-Rome area was not being served adequately by WIBX, which, at the time the paper applied for the construction permit in 1946, had a 250-watt signal incapable of reaching Rome at night; in contrast, WRUN, with its 5,000-watt signal, would have more of a regional reach. (WIBX, in turn, upgraded to 5,000 watts soon afterward.)
One of its announcers during WRUN's early days, in his first job as broadcaster, was a young radio announcer named Dick Clark, whose father was the manager of WRUN AM and FM (the FM half now WFRG-FM). He was known on-air as "Dick Clay", to avoid confusion with his father, who had the same name. The young Dick Clark would move to television, as anchor of the evening news program on WKTV, in 1951.
The Sentinel sold WRUN to Woods Communication Corporation in 1970; by then, it had a middle-of-the-road format, which evolved to a contemporary format by 1974. However, WRUN returned to MOR programming the following year. WRUN again changed its format in 1977, this time to top 40. The station was sold to WRUN, Inc. in 1978 and to Oneida Communications in 1985.
Forever Broadcasting bought the station in 1996. In the fall of 1997, the station began to relay sister country music station WFRG-FM; WRUN itself had applied for, but never used, the WFRG callsign in 1993. Forever sold its stations in the market to Regent Communications in 1999, and the following year, after a brief period simulcasting erstwhile competitor WIBX, WRUN began a adult standards format.
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