WNYQ

WNYQ (Q101.7) is a Classic Hits/Classic Rock radio station licensed to Hudson Falls, New York and serving the Glens Falls/Lake George area as well as Saratoga County. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts on 101.7 MHz at 4.6 kW ERP from a tower just north of Glens Falls on Route 149.

History

For most of its existence, the 101.7 frequency held some form of the WENU calls (standing for an early slogan, "WE 'N U (You)"). WENU signed on in late 1983 with an adult contemporary format it would hold for much of the next decade and a half. This format would be transplanted to the original WNYQ (today's WBZZ, later WQSH in the Albany market) in November 1996 when that station's more powerful signal signed on. WENU would then be left with Westwood One's Adult Standards format.

When WENU owner Bradmark Communications sold their stations to Vox Media in 2000, WENU's format was one of the few not to be altered within the ensuing months, however the station would gain a simulcast on AM when sister station WBZA in South Glens Falls flipped to a WENU simulcast and to the WENU calls with the 101.7 frequency taking the suffixed WENU-FM calls as a result. This arrangement would last until the end of 2004 when WENU-FM returned to its prior adult contemporary format with the standards format remaining on the AM station.