WYJB
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| City | Albany, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Capital District |
| Branding | B95.5 |
| Slogan | One Great Song After Another (primary) The Best Variety of Yesterday and Today (secondary) |
| Frequency | 95.5 MHz |
| First air date | 1959 (as WROW-FM) |
| Format |
Adult Contemporary Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.) |
| ERP | 12,000 watts |
| HAAT | 312 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 836 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°38′10.69″N 73°59′57.9264″W / 42.6363028°N 73.999424000°W |
| Callsign meaning | None; randomly assigned by the FCC |
| Former callsigns | WROW-FM (1959-12/29/1993) |
| Owner |
Pamal Broadcasting (6 Johnson Road Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WAJZ, WFLY, WKLI, WROW, WINU |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | b95.com |
WYJB (95.5 FM, "B95.5") is an adult contemporary (with a slight lean towards Hot AC) formatted radio station licensed to Albany, New York and serving New York's Capital District as well as the surrounding areas, including the Adirondacks. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting, and broadcasts at a power of 12 kilowatts effective radiated power (ERP) from the Helderberg Mountains antenna farm in New Scotland.
WYJB's adult contemporary format is a direct evolution of WROW-FM's former easy listening format, which began in the early 1960s. The station has had an adult contemporary format since 1991, originally strictly Soft AC, which evolved towards mainstream AC and eventually developing a slight Hot AC lean in recent years. The station has been #1 overall in several books since its launch, and its primary competitors are WRVE (99.5 The River) and WJKE (101.3 The Jockey, a rimshot in the Saratoga/Glens Falls area).
As of September 2012, the station staff is: The B95.5 Breakfast Club with Bill Fox and Suzy Garcia (6:00 am–10:00 am), Lynn Wilson (10:00 am–3:00 pm), Chad O'Hara (3:00 pm–7:00 pm), and the syndicated Delilah weeknight show (7:00 pm–midnight).
The 95.5 frequency, originally allocated to the unbuilt WXKW-FM in 1950, signed on in 1959 as WROW-FM, sister to Capital Cities Communications flagship WROW and initially simulcasting the AM's programming. After the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) forced FM stations to originate their own programming in 1967, it aired a time-delayed variation of the AM's easy listening format. This arrangement remained until after Capital Cities sold the WROW stations in 1983, at which point the FM became the primary station which the AM largely simulcasted.
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