WZCR
| City | Hudson, New York |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Upper Hudson Valley, lower Capital District |
| Branding | Oldies 93.5 |
| Slogan | "Columbia & Greene's '60s & '70s Hits" |
| Frequency | 93.5 MHz |
| First air date | 1968 (as WHUC-FM) |
| Format | Oldies |
| ERP | 5,800 watts |
| HAAT | -5 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 63532 |
| Callsign meaning | W Z CRuisin' (former branding) |
| Former callsigns | WHUC-FM (1968-1981) WRVW (1981-1995) WTHK (1995-2001) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (CC Licenses, LLC) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | oldies935.com |
WZCR (93.5 FM, "Oldies 93.5") is an oldies radio station licensed to Hudson, New York, and serving Columbia and Greene counties as well as the upper Hudson Valley, the southern Capital District, and Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and broadcasts from a tower located near the Hudson River in Hudson.
WZCR signed on in 1969 as WHUC-FM, sister to WHUC and the first FM station between Kingston and Albany. Initially airing automated easy listening music, the station would flip to a simulcast of WHUC's successful Top 40 format by 1971, a format it would keep for the next decade. During this time, it was not uncommon for the WHUC stations to appear in the ratings for the Albany market to the point that some Albany businesses advertised on the stations.
With The FCC requiring stations to stop simulcasting, the simulcast was broken in April 1981 with WHUC-FM flipping to Automated AC from Drake Chenault and taking the WRVW calls. This format was selected by the station's current General Manager. The station would take several variations of AC before flipping to country in 1988. Country would only last a couple of years before the station went through a variety of formats, including standards, big band, and an oldies format called 93Gold FM.
WRVW's oldies format was never a winning proposition, with two strong Albany oldies stations, WGY-FM and WTRY dominating the Hudson market. This would continue until early 1995 when Straus Media, owners of WCTW and WCKL in Catskill, bought WHUC and WRVW. Straus had earlier purchased WELV and 99.3 WWWK in Ellenville and all those stations, with the exception of WELV moved to the studios on Route 9G in Hudson.
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