WYAJ is a radio station

Radio station

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 licensed

City of license

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 to serve Sudbury, Massachusetts

Sudbury, Massachusetts

Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, population 17,659. The town was incorporated in 1639, with the original boundaries including what is now Wayland. Wayland split from Sudbury in 1780. When first incorporated, it included and parts of Framingham, Marlborough, Stow...

. The station is owned by Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School is a public, regional high school located at 390 Lincoln Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Its current superintendent/principal is Scott Carpenter.-History:...

 and licensed to the Sudbury Valley Broadcasting Foundation. It airs a high school radio

High school radio

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 format.

Greg Hill, host of the Hill-man Morning Show on WAAF

WAAF

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 in Boston, got his start in radio on WYAJ when he was hired by student station manager Richard Lyons (host of the Megarock Show and one of the first on-air personalities in 1980). http://features.waaf.com/hillman/greg_hill.php

Geoff Scott, former traffic reporter WBZ

WBZ

WBZ may refer to:* WBZ , the United States' first commercial radio station originally broadcast from Springfield, Massachusetts, now licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States...

 in Boston & 20yr Northwest radio icon (Afternoons, Rock 94.5 KHTQ

KHTQ

KHTQ is an Active Rock outlet licensed to Hayden, Idaho and serving the Spokane, Washington area. They broadcast at 94.5 MHz on the FM dial with an effective radiated power of 83 kW and is owned by Morgan Murphy Media.-History:...

 & Evenings, Rock106 KEZE

KEZE

KEZE , "Hot 96.9") is a rhythmic contemporary formatted radio station licensed to Spokane, Washington, USA. The Morgan Murphy Media station broadcasts at 96.9 MHz on the FM dial with an effective radiated power of 8.2 kW...

 Spokane, WA) also got his start in broadcasting on WYAJ as host of "The Brainmelter Show" 1982-1988.

Other 1980's alumni of WYAJ include American music industry excutive Gerard Cosloy

Gerard Cosloy

Gerard Cosloy is an American music industry executive.-Biography:Cosloy was raised in Wayland, Massachusetts, a western suburb of Boston. While he was in high school, he became involved in the local hardcore punk scene, put together many punk shows, and started Conflict, a mimeographed fanzine of...

; future Hüsker Dü manager David Savoy; and WENY sportscaster and Emmy award winning Fox Sports producer Mike Isenberg.
The station was assigned the WYAJ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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External links

• WYAJ official website