WCWN
Encyclopedia
WCWN is the CW-affiliated television station
for New York State's Capital District
and Western New England
. Licensed to Schenectady, New York
, it broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 43 (PSIP virtual channel
45) from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland
's Voorheesville
section. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable
channel 15 (hence The CW 15 branding) and in high definition on digital channel 1815. Owned by Freedom Communications
, WCWN is sister to CBS
affiliate WRGB
and the two stations share studios on Balltown Road in Niskayuna
. Syndicated
programming on this station includes: Seinfeld
, How I Met Your Mother
, The Office, Cash Cab
, and The New Adventures of Old Christine
.
Since WCWN operates as part of the WRGB twinstick, the station can air any CBS programming if the other station preempts the network for weather/emergency updates or local specials. In the past, it has been known to air coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis
Championship. During the yearly Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
, WCWN is responsible for airing WRGB's local, syndicated, and network lineup. The station also airs some New York Mets
baseball games produced by WPIX
in New York City
(owned by the Tribune Company
). Games are shown on Fridays nights, Saturdays, and Sundays. The arrangement is in place because WCWN and WPIX were sisters at one point in time. Although this station is now owned by Freedom, the arrangement continues.
which is currently not offered on Time Warner digital cable.
to WMHT Educational Telecommunications
which made it a secondary PBS
station with the calls WMHX.
This arrangement lasted until 1991 when, due to financial difficulties, WMHX was taken off-the-air. Two years later, the station returned to the air with the new calls WMHQ carrying a large amount of instructional programming alongside repeats and double runs from WMHT. Further financial difficulties at WMHT led to a sale of WMHQ in the late 1990s.
After a sale to the Sinclair Broadcast Group
(to make the station a dual UPN
/WB
affiliate) fell through, Tribune Broadcasting
bought the station in 1999 for $18.5 million. WMHQ's final day of programming as a secondary PBS member station was Sunday September 5, 1999 with the final sign-on at 7:00 a.m. and signed off the air for the final time just after midnight that night, marking an end to six years of programs on WMHQ. Then at 6:00 a.m. on September 6, 1999, WMHQ joined The WB and received the call sign WEWB-TV as well as the on-air branding of "WB 45". The station became the first and so far only network-owned station in the Capital District since Tribune had a minority stake in The WB. WPIX from New York City, was the default WB affiliate for Albany from its inception in 1995 to early September 1999, was blacked out for cable viewers in the area until 2002, leaving WPIX as an Independent station with some additional shows blacked out and showed exclusively on another Albany station, (most notably, channel 45, FOX affiliate WXXA-TV
, CBS affiliate and now sister station WRGB-TV and NBC affiliate WNYT-TV.)
From the station's relaunch as WEWB until December 2006, master control of the channel was located at sister station WB affiliate WLVI-TV
in Boston
. However, local offices were at Corporate Woods in Albany. WLVI's meteorologists maintained WCWN's weather page. In 2004, WEWB's digital signal signed on-the-air and began broadcasting on UHF channel 43. In 2005, the "WB 45" name was succeeded by "Capital Region's WB" at the tail end of a period in which most of Tribune's WB affiliates (minus its VHF and "heritage" stations) were re-branded in the same format.
On January 24, 2006, UPN and The WB announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge to form The CW. WEWB was one of the Tribune WB affiliates named in the announcement of a new ten year affiliation deal with the new network. In preparation, the station's call letters changed to the current WCWN on May 10. In July 2006, commercials for The CW as well as syndicated fall programming had the station taking the "The Capital Region's CW" branding effective with the network's launch on September 18. On June 19, 2006, Tribune announced it would sell WCWN to Freedom Communications
, owner of CBS affiliate WRGB, for $17 million dollars. The purchase, which faced review from the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) for much of 2006, was approved on November 22 (when the FCC granted Freedom a "failed station" waiver for the station's purchase), with Freedom closing on the station on December 6.
At that point, master control of WCWN moved from WLVI to WRGB's facilities in Niskayuna, the station's administrative offices were closed, and Freedom began to maintain WCWN's website. The purchase gave the Capital Region market its first television duopoly. For a short period of time, this essentially gave WRGB control of three stations as it continued its pre-existing joint sales agreement (JSA) with MyNetworkTV
affiliate WNYA
until February 2007. From its launch in 2006 until October 1, 2007, WCWN offered The Tube
(a 24-hour digital music video channel) on its second digital subchannel and Time Warner
digital cable. On November 1, 2008, WCWN-DT2 relaunched as an affiliate of This TV
, then shortly thereafter swapped subchannels with WRGB and took Universal Sports
. The station ended transmission on analog channel 45 on June 12, 2009.
Freedom announced on November 2, 2011 that it would bow out of television and sell its stations, including WCWN, to Sinclair Broadcast Group, marking the company's second attempt at acquiring channel 45.
affiliate WNYT to launch the market
's first prime time newscast at 10 which ran from 1996 until 1998. The broadcast was canceled due to a lack of support. At the outset of the station's relaunch as WEWB, there was a chance Tribune would launch a news department possibly with some support from another station in the area. These plans were indefinitely put on hold after Tribune put a news freeze in place and did not consider such a launch to be a priority.
Newscasts would not return to the station until the start of 2007 when Freedom moved an hour long extension of WRGB's weekday morning show at 7 from WNYA to this channel (currently known as The CW 15 Morning News). This happened because, at the time, WCWN had higher ratings than WNYA. Rumors soon circulated about WRGB launching a prime time show at 10 on this station to compete with Fox affiliate WXXA-TV
. However, the moving of a second run of Dr. Phil
to the time slot put those plans on hold. On January 14, 2008, the morning news on WCWN began to be produced in high definition
. A day earlier, WRGB became the first station in the market to make the upgrade.
On September 24, 2008, WRGB started airing a weeknight prime time newscast in high definition on WCWN. Originally known as The CBS 6 News 10 at 10 and airing for ten minutes, it featured the top stories of the day along with an updated weather forecast. On October 18, 2010, this was expanded to thirty minutes and renamed The CW 15 News at 10. The format on WCWN became unique to the market and is different compared with newscasts seen on WRGB. There is more fast-paced reporting along with original stories and various features. The weekday morning and prime time newscasts are streamed live on WRGB's website. In the past, WCWN has also occasionally aired that channel's 11 o'clock news during CBS's coverage of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
.
Reporters
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for New York State's Capital District
Capital District
New York's Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, is a region in upstate New York that generally refers to the four counties surrounding Albany, the capital of the state: Albany County, Schenectady County, Rensselaer County, and Saratoga County...
and Western New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
. Licensed to Schenectady, New York
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 66,135...
, it broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 43 (PSIP virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
45) from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland
New Scotland, New York
New Scotland is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. The population was 8,648 at the 2010 census.The town is southwest of Albany, New York, the state capital. New Scotland is centrally located in the county.-History:...
's Voorheesville
Voorheesville, New York
Voorheesville is a village within the town of New Scotland in Albany County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of Albany and part of the city's historic metropolitan area. The population was 2,789 at the 2010 census. The village is named after a railroad attorney, Alonzo B...
section. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
channel 15 (hence The CW 15 branding) and in high definition on digital channel 1815. Owned by Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications, Inc. is a media conglomerate in the United States. It owns approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers in the US, with a combined daily circulation of nearly one million subscribers, and also operates over seventy local news websites...
, WCWN is sister to CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate WRGB
WRGB
WRGB, channel 6, is a television station located in Schenectady, New York, USA. WRGB is owned by Freedom Communications, and is the CBS affiliate for the Albany-Schenectady-Troy television market...
and the two stations share studios on Balltown Road in Niskayuna
Niskayuna (town), New York
Niskayuna is a town in Schenectady County, New York. The population was 20,295 at the 2000 census. The town is located in the southeast part of the county, north and east of the city of Schenectady, and is the easternmost town in the county-History:...
. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on this station includes: Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
, How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
, The Office, Cash Cab
Cash Cab
Cash Cab is a TV game show devised by Adam Wood that originated in the United Kingdom and has been licensed to television networks in numerous other countries...
, and The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Adventures of Old Christine is an American comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus which ran for five seasons on CBS from March 13, 2006, to May 12, 2010...
.
Since WCWN operates as part of the WRGB twinstick, the station can air any CBS programming if the other station preempts the network for weather/emergency updates or local specials. In the past, it has been known to air coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis
U.S. Open (tennis)
The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...
Championship. During the yearly Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
The MDA Labor Day Telethon is an annual telethon in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association . The first MDA telethon was during the Thanksgiving Day weekend of 1952 and titled Party for MDA. It has been held annually since 1966...
, WCWN is responsible for airing WRGB's local, syndicated, and network lineup. The station also airs some New York Mets
New York Mets
The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
baseball games produced by WPIX
WPIX
WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of The CW Television Network...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
(owned by the Tribune Company
Tribune Company
The Tribune Company is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids including Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida...
). Games are shown on Fridays nights, Saturdays, and Sundays. The arrangement is in place because WCWN and WPIX were sisters at one point in time. Although this station is now owned by Freedom, the arrangement continues.
Digital programming
On WCWN-DT2 is Universal SportsUniversal Sports
Universal Sports is an American television network that airs various sports, primarily those contested in the Olympic Games, including swimming, gymnastics, cycling, track and field, figure skating, skiing, bobsledding and triathlon.-Programming:...
which is currently not offered on Time Warner digital cable.
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Programming |
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Main WCWN programming / The CW |
| 45.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
Universal Sports |
History
WCWN originated as an independent station on December 3, 1984 under the call letters WUSV (Union Street Video). As with most independent stations during that period, it had difficulties from the outset in terms of getting programming with only afternoon cartoons and some reruns getting respectable ratings. As a result, the station went through financial difficulties. In 1987, Union Street Video sold the station in a fire saleFire sale
A fire sale is the sale of goods at extremely discounted prices, typically when the seller faces bankruptcy or other impending distress. The term may originally have been based on the sale of goods at a heavy discount due to fire damage...
to WMHT Educational Telecommunications
WMHT (TV)
WMHT is the call sign for a television station and radio station in Schenectady, New York owned and operated by WMHT Educational Telecommunications A non-profit corporation...
which made it a secondary PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
station with the calls WMHX.
This arrangement lasted until 1991 when, due to financial difficulties, WMHX was taken off-the-air. Two years later, the station returned to the air with the new calls WMHQ carrying a large amount of instructional programming alongside repeats and double runs from WMHT. Further financial difficulties at WMHT led to a sale of WMHQ in the late 1990s.
After a sale to the Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
(to make the station a dual UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
/WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
affiliate) fell through, Tribune Broadcasting
Tribune Broadcasting
The Tribune Broadcasting Company is a group of radio and television stations located throughout the United States which are owned and operated by the Tribune Company, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois and named for the flagship Chicago Tribune newspaper.- History :Tribune Broadcasting...
bought the station in 1999 for $18.5 million. WMHQ's final day of programming as a secondary PBS member station was Sunday September 5, 1999 with the final sign-on at 7:00 a.m. and signed off the air for the final time just after midnight that night, marking an end to six years of programs on WMHQ. Then at 6:00 a.m. on September 6, 1999, WMHQ joined The WB and received the call sign WEWB-TV as well as the on-air branding of "WB 45". The station became the first and so far only network-owned station in the Capital District since Tribune had a minority stake in The WB. WPIX from New York City, was the default WB affiliate for Albany from its inception in 1995 to early September 1999, was blacked out for cable viewers in the area until 2002, leaving WPIX as an Independent station with some additional shows blacked out and showed exclusively on another Albany station, (most notably, channel 45, FOX affiliate WXXA-TV
WXXA-TV
WXXA-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Upstate New York's Capital District and Western New England. Licensed to Albany, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland's Voorheesville section. The station can also be seen...
, CBS affiliate and now sister station WRGB-TV and NBC affiliate WNYT-TV.)
From the station's relaunch as WEWB until December 2006, master control of the channel was located at sister station WB affiliate WLVI-TV
WLVI-TV
WLVI, digital channel 41, is a television station licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts which serves as the CW affiliate for the Boston, Massachusetts television market. WLVI is owned by Sunbeam Television, and is a sister station to WHDH, Boston's NBC affiliate. The two stations share studios at...
in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
. However, local offices were at Corporate Woods in Albany. WLVI's meteorologists maintained WCWN's weather page. In 2004, WEWB's digital signal signed on-the-air and began broadcasting on UHF channel 43. In 2005, the "WB 45" name was succeeded by "Capital Region's WB" at the tail end of a period in which most of Tribune's WB affiliates (minus its VHF and "heritage" stations) were re-branded in the same format.
On January 24, 2006, UPN and The WB announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge to form The CW. WEWB was one of the Tribune WB affiliates named in the announcement of a new ten year affiliation deal with the new network. In preparation, the station's call letters changed to the current WCWN on May 10. In July 2006, commercials for The CW as well as syndicated fall programming had the station taking the "The Capital Region's CW" branding effective with the network's launch on September 18. On June 19, 2006, Tribune announced it would sell WCWN to Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications, Inc. is a media conglomerate in the United States. It owns approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers in the US, with a combined daily circulation of nearly one million subscribers, and also operates over seventy local news websites...
, owner of CBS affiliate WRGB, for $17 million dollars. The purchase, which faced review from the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) for much of 2006, was approved on November 22 (when the FCC granted Freedom a "failed station" waiver for the station's purchase), with Freedom closing on the station on December 6.
At that point, master control of WCWN moved from WLVI to WRGB's facilities in Niskayuna, the station's administrative offices were closed, and Freedom began to maintain WCWN's website. The purchase gave the Capital Region market its first television duopoly. For a short period of time, this essentially gave WRGB control of three stations as it continued its pre-existing joint sales agreement (JSA) with MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate WNYA
WNYA
WNYA is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England. Licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, WNYA broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter northwest of New Salem, New York, along with a...
until February 2007. From its launch in 2006 until October 1, 2007, WCWN offered The Tube
The Tube (TV channel)
The Tube Music Network was a music video network carried on free-to-air satellite television, select digital television subchannels and digital cable systems. The network's president and founder was Les Garland, a veteran of MTV and VH1. The Tube was a wholly owned subsidiary of The Tube Media Corp...
(a 24-hour digital music video channel) on its second digital subchannel and Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
digital cable. On November 1, 2008, WCWN-DT2 relaunched as an affiliate of This TV
This TV
This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....
, then shortly thereafter swapped subchannels with WRGB and took Universal Sports
Universal Sports
Universal Sports is an American television network that airs various sports, primarily those contested in the Olympic Games, including swimming, gymnastics, cycling, track and field, figure skating, skiing, bobsledding and triathlon.-Programming:...
. The station ended transmission on analog channel 45 on June 12, 2009.
Freedom announced on November 2, 2011 that it would bow out of television and sell its stations, including WCWN, to Sinclair Broadcast Group, marking the company's second attempt at acquiring channel 45.
News operation
As WMHQ, it partnered with NBCNBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate WNYT to launch the market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
's first prime time newscast at 10 which ran from 1996 until 1998. The broadcast was canceled due to a lack of support. At the outset of the station's relaunch as WEWB, there was a chance Tribune would launch a news department possibly with some support from another station in the area. These plans were indefinitely put on hold after Tribune put a news freeze in place and did not consider such a launch to be a priority.
Newscasts would not return to the station until the start of 2007 when Freedom moved an hour long extension of WRGB's weekday morning show at 7 from WNYA to this channel (currently known as The CW 15 Morning News). This happened because, at the time, WCWN had higher ratings than WNYA. Rumors soon circulated about WRGB launching a prime time show at 10 on this station to compete with Fox affiliate WXXA-TV
WXXA-TV
WXXA-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Upstate New York's Capital District and Western New England. Licensed to Albany, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland's Voorheesville section. The station can also be seen...
. However, the moving of a second run of Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil (TV series)
Dr. Phil is a reality/talk television show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002...
to the time slot put those plans on hold. On January 14, 2008, the morning news on WCWN began to be produced in high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
. A day earlier, WRGB became the first station in the market to make the upgrade.
On September 24, 2008, WRGB started airing a weeknight prime time newscast in high definition on WCWN. Originally known as The CBS 6 News 10 at 10 and airing for ten minutes, it featured the top stories of the day along with an updated weather forecast. On October 18, 2010, this was expanded to thirty minutes and renamed The CW 15 News at 10. The format on WCWN became unique to the market and is different compared with newscasts seen on WRGB. There is more fast-paced reporting along with original stories and various features. The weekday morning and prime time newscasts are streamed live on WRGB's website. In the past, WCWN has also occasionally aired that channel's 11 o'clock news during CBS's coverage of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...
.
News team
Anchors- Ed O'Brien - weekday morning news
- Theresa Priolo - weekday morning news
- Jerry Gretzinger - weeknight news
- Dori Marlin - weeknight news
- Steve LaPointe (Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
) - Chief Meteorologist seen weeknights - Neal Estano - weekday morning meteorologist
- Erik Thorgersen - fill-in meteorologist
Reporters
- Steve Flamisch - State CapitolNew York State CapitolThe New York State Capitol is the capitol building of the U.S. state of New York. Housing the New York State Legislature, it is located in the state capital city Albany, on State Street in Capitol Park. The building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million , was the most expensive government...
Correspondent and investigative - Chrissy Cavotta - contributor heard on WFLYWFLYWFLY is a Contemporary Hit Radio station licensed to Troy, New York and serving New York's Capital District as well as the surrounding areas, including the Adirondacks...
-FM 92.3 - Brian Cody - contributor heard on WFLY-FM 92.3
- Greg Dahlmann - entertainment contributor
- Mary Darcy - entertainment contributor
- Ashe Reardon - investigative
- Alexandra Field
- Randy Simons
- Craig Smith
- Greg Floyd