WIFY

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WIFY
Broadcasts The Point radio network
Broadcast areaChamplain Valley
Frequency93.7 MHz
BrandingThe Point
Programming
FormatAdult album alternative
Ownership
Owner
  • Steven Silberberg and Edward Flanagan
  • (Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc.)
WIXM, WWMP
History
First air date
1999[1]
Former call signs
  • WWFY (1997–1999)
  • WRRO (1999–2001)
  • WXAL-FM (2001–2005)
  • WUSX (2005–2010)
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID83867
ClassC3
ERP21,000 watts
HAAT108 meters (354 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
44°13′15.2″N 73°24′35.5″W / 44.220889°N 73.409861°W / 44.220889; -73.409861
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.pointfm.com

WIFY (93.7 FM) is an adult album alternative formatted radio station that is part of The Point radio network. Licensed to Addison, Vermont, United States, the station serves the Middlebury, Vermont, Burlington, Vermont-Plattsburgh, New York area. The station is owned by Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc.[3]

History

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The station was assigned call sign WWFY on December 8, 1997. On April 30, 1999, the call letters changed to WRRO. When the station launched, it went by the name "The Arrow" and broadcast a classic rock format. The station changed calls and formats again on April 23, 2001, to WXAL-FM with a hot adult contemporary format as "Alice".

Around 2003, the station began putting a simulcast on WLKC (now WIXM). By 2005, WLKC and WXAL-FM changed formats to adult hits under the name "MP103", with WLKC becoming WWMP. By September 7, 2005, the station changed to WUSX with a country format, and the simulcast with WWMP ended.

On July 1, 2008, the station changed format from to oldies as "Cruisin' 93.7". The first song was 409 by The Beach Boys. Two years after the station went oldies, the call letters changed yet again on May 24, 2010, to the current WIFY.[4][5] On September 2, 2014, WIFY dropped the oldies format and became part of the radio network known as The Point, with an adult album alternative format, simulcasting the Montpelier/Burlington network content of WNCS.

References

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  1. ^ "Info" (PDF). www.americanradiohistory.com. 2010.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WIFY". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ "WUSX Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. ^ "WIFY Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  5. ^ "Making Moves: Wednesday, June 9, 2010". Radio-Info.com. June 9, 2010.
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