WYOY is a Top 40 (CHR)

Contemporary hit radio

Contemporary hit radio is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts...

 station in Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...

. WYOY debuted in September, 1996, and gave the Jackson area its first Top 40 station since 1993.

Current on air members

6a-10a Y101 Morning Showgram with Nate and Murphy

10a-3p Lauren Rae

3p-7p The Carson Radio Program

General Manager - Gwen Rakestraw

Program Director - Carson

Assistant Program Director - Nate West


Former Staff Members

Johnny O (currently at Q100 Atlanta, GA)
Scott Steele (now with sister station US 96.3)

EJ Rivers (now with sister station Mix 98.7)

Mike Montana (currently at WRVR, Memphis, TN)

Mandy Morgan (currently at WRVR, Memphis, TN

Kevin Vaughan (currently Sales Manager at TAVCO Services, Inc., Austin, TX)

John Morris

Chris Bender (currently at KVET in Austin, TX)

Bob Richards (currently at KBUL in Reno)

Brian Kelly (currently at Mix 93.3 Kansas City)

JC Cruz (currently resides in Austin, TX)

Kris Fisher (currently at HD 98.3 in Augusta, GA)

Tessa Hall (currently at WAPE in Jacksonville, FL)

Dick O'Neil (currently General Manager of Entercom in Gainsville, FL)

Zak Tyler

External links

• Y101 WYOY official website