WHAZ (AM)

WHAZ
City	WHAZ: Troy, New York WBAR-FM: Lake Luzerne, New York WMYY: Schoharie, New York WMNV: Rupert, Vermont
Broadcast area	Eastern New York and Southern Vermont
Slogan	Alive Radio
Frequency	WHAZ: 1330 kHz WBAR-FM: 94.7 MHz WMYY: 97.3 MHz WMNV: 104.1 MHz
First air date	WHAZ: 1922 WBAR-FM: 1990 WMYY: 1988 WMNV: 1989
Format	Christian radio
Power	WHAZ: 1,000 watts day 49 watts night
ERP	WBAR-FM: 1,250 watts WMYY: 800 watts WMNV: 4,300 watts
HAAT	WBAR-FM: 220 meters (720 ft) WMYY: 273 meters (896 ft) WMNV: 61 meters (200 ft)
Class	WHAZ: D Others: A
Facility ID	WHAZ: 8674 WBAR-FM: 8678 WMYY: 8677 WMNV: 20596
Transmitter coordinates	WHAZ: 42°46′35.00″N 73°41′10.00″W / 42.7763889°N 73.6861111°W / 42.7763889; -73.6861111 WBAR-FM: 43°18′46.00″N 73°50′7.00″W / 43.3127778°N 73.8352778°W / 43.3127778; -73.8352778 WMYY: 42°37′51.00″N 74°16′1.00″W / 42.6308333°N 74.2669444°W / 42.6308333; -74.2669444 WMNV: 43°16′1.00″N 73°15′21.00″W / 43.2669444°N 73.2558333°W / 43.2669444; -73.2558333
Callsign meaning	With Holiness And Zeal (backronym; originally randomly assigned by the FCC)
Former callsigns	WBAR-FM: WZBR (9/21-11/1/1990) WMNV: WRQL (1989-1990)
Owner	Capital Media
Website	http://www.whaz.com

WHAZ is a Christian radio station licensed to Troy, New York and serves New York's Capital District. The station is owned by the locally based Capital Media and broadcasts on 1330 kHz at 1 kilowatt daytime, 49 watts nighttime from a transmitter located on Van Schaick Island in the neighboring city of Cohoes. WHAZ's programming is also simulcasted on four FM stations on the fringes of the market.

History

WHAZ is recognized as being one of the oldest radio stations in New York State, signing on in the summer of 1922 using 790 kHz in a time-share agreement with WGY. The station was operated by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At the behest of General Electric, which desired to operate its flagship station WGY with an unlimited schedule, WHAZ was eventually authorized to switch to 1300 kHz. The NARBA frequency shift of 1941 moved WHAZ to 1330 kHz, daytime-only operations (minus one night a week in a historical timeshare with the timeshare of 1330's in New York City.

With the launch of WRPI FM on November 1, 1957, and most of the school's programming on the AM band being transmitted via carrier-current WRPI AM 640 by that time, WHAZ's future became expendable, only being operated on a rather minimal basis...and programming Classical music. The station was eventually sold in 1967 to new owners who decided to program the station with a Christian religious format, which holds to this day. In 1973, WHAZ nearly added an FM variant of its programming on 107.7 MHz, however the death of the station's then-owner led to those plans being scrapped by his children in favor of country music with the station becoming WGNA, now the regular #1 station in the market. WHAZ was sold again to the predecessor of current owner Capital Media in 1978.

Beginning in the 1990s, WHAZ expanded to FM through the acquisitions of four stations, including WMYY 97.3 (licensed to Schoharie, New York and serving the Capital Region and Mohawk Valley), WBAR 94.7 (licensed to Lake Luzerne, New York and serving the Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls areas), and WMNV 104.1 (licensed to Rupert, Vermont and rimshots Manchester and Rutland). In 2005, WZEC (licensed to Hoosick Falls, New York) was acquired and converted into a classic Christian Contemporary format for the Bennington, Vermont area under the WHAZ-FM call letters, and later converted to an outright simulcast of WHAZ.

Translators

WBAR-FM

Broadcast translators of WBAR-FM
Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
W240AK	95.9	Lebanon, New Hampshire	8	D	FCC
W249AW	97.7	Lebanon, New Hampshire	4	D	FCC

WMYY

Broadcast translators of WMYY
Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
W240AL	95.9	Bernardston, Massachusetts	8	D	FCC

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Radio stations in the Albany / Schenectady / Troy market

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