WYAI
| City | Scotia, New York |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Capital District, eastern Mohawk Valley |
| Branding | Air 1 |
| Slogan | Positive Hits |
| Frequency | 93.7 MHz |
| First air date | 1980 (from Corinth) April 22, 2002 (Scotia) |
| Format | Christian CHR |
| ERP | 1,250 watts |
| HAAT | 215 meters |
| Class | A |
| Callsign meaning | W AlbanY Air I |
| Former callsigns | WSCG (1980-91, Corinth) WZZM-FM (1991-2001, Corinth) WHTR (2001-02, Corinth) WHTR-FM (2002) WKRD (2002-04) WEGB (2004) WEGQ (2004-06) WOOB (2006-07) |
| Former frequencies | 93.5 MHz (1980–2002, Corinth) |
| Affiliations | Air 1 |
| Owner | EMF Broadcasting |
| Website | www.air1.com |
WYAI is a Christian radio station licensed to Scotia, New York and serving the Capital District and Mohawk Valley of New York. The station is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation and broadcasts at 93.7 MHz at 1,250 watts ERP from a location near Rotterdam Junction, New York. The station is an O&O of EMF's Air 1 network.
The history of WYAI dates back to December 1981, when 93.5 signed on in Corinth as country station WSCG. WSCG was a live 24-hour-a-day operation throughout the 1980s, that ran into financial difficulties in the early 1990s. In early 1991, WSCG left the air, returning under new ownership in the summer of 1991, as beautiful music station WZZM. WZZM encountered financial problems of its own by early 1993, and left the air itself. It returned to the air, during the summer of 1993, as an Oldies station. It abruptly left the air again in March 1994. It returned to the air in May 1994, still doing oldies, but flipped to country two weeks later as Z-Country 93.
In the late 1990s, Bradmark Communications began studies for moving the station down to the Albany market and selling it at a profit. These plans were expanded when Bradmark sold the stations to Vox Media in 2000, which in March 2001, moved the oldies format of 107.1 WHTR to 93.5, and relaunched the Z-Country format as the locally-run WFFG (Froggy 107.1). Galaxy purchased the station in late 2001, and surprisingly retained the WHTR calls with the move, a rarity among move-in stations.
WHTR moved into the Albany market from Corinth (when it was moved to 93.7 MHz to protect WZCR's signal) in 2002, signing on at 3:00 p.m. on April 22 of that year. The call letters initially remained WHTR at that time, and took on the Hot Talk 93.7 name with a hot talk format and simulcast on AM 1400 (the original WABY, now known as WAMC). The station's key personalities were former WPYX morning co-host John Mulrooney in morning drive and the syndicated Opie and Anthony show in afternoon drive; most weekend programming was a simulcast of K-Rock WKRL Syracuse, albeit with local ads. Within four months, Mulrooney was fired and the "Sex for Sam" incident ended Opie and Anthony's original syndication attempt.
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