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WGY (AM 810, 103.1 FM, NewsRadio WGY) is a radio station licensed to Schenectady, New York and owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., broadcasting a news and conservative talk radio format. It broadcasts 50,000 Watts non-directional from a single tower in the Town of Rotterdam. It is one of the United States' oldest radio stations as well as the oldest in New York's Capital Region. WGY was the flagship station of General Electric's broadcast group from 1922 until 1983.
By the 1928 Band Plan, 790 kHz. was allocated to Oakland, California, and to KGO (q.v.), which was then owned by General Electric, on an internationally cleared basis. In order to obtain a cleared channel in Schenectady, New York, for what would become the present-day WGY, GE effected a breakdown of 790 kHz, whereby WGY would assume the maximum permissible power, and KGO would be lowered in power to 7.5 kW, which was then lower than the minimum permissible power for a clear channel station (10 kW), and also was then higher than the then maximum permissible power for a regional channel station (5 kW). Both stations retained omnidirectional antennas. Therefore, GE effectively removed from the West one of its eight clear channels and added another clear channel to the East thereby giving the East nine cleared channels and the West only seven. The other "regions" in the Band Plan all retained their allotted eight cleared channels. In 1941, stations on 790 kHz were moved to 810 kHz and roughly simultaneously, KGO was directionalized and power was increased to 50 kW, the maximum power for a U.S. clear channel.
WGY refers to several broadcasting stations in the United States.
In the New York Capital District, it refers to the following pioneering stations:
- WGY (AM), a radio station on 810 kHz licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States
- WGY-FM, a radio station on 103.1 MHz licensed to Albany, New York, United States
- WRVE, an FM radio station on 99.5 MHz licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, which held the callsign WGY-FM from 1988 to 1994.
- WRGB, a television station on digital channel 6 licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, which held the call sign WGY-TV from 1928 to 1942
Outside of the New York Capital District:
- WGYE, an FM radio station on 102.7 MHz licensed to Mannington, West Virginia, United States.
- WGYL, an FM radio station on 93.7 MHz licensed to Vero Beach, Florida, United States.
- WGYM, an AM radio station on 1580 kHz licensed to Hammonton, New Jersey, United States
- WGYV, an AM radio station on 1380 kHz licensed to Greenville, Alabama, United States
- WGYY, an FM radio station on 100.3 MHz licensed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States, which also operates a full-service repeater station, WGYI, on 98.5 MHz in Oil City, Pennsylvania, United States.
- WWGY, an FM radio station on 95.1 MHz licensed to Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States.