WZCR

WZCR
City	Hudson, New York
Broadcast area	Upper Hudson Valley, lower Capital District
Branding	Oldies 93.5
Slogan	"Columbia & Greene's 60's & 70's Hits"
Frequency	93.5 MHz
First air date	1968 (as WHUC-FM)
Format	Oldies
ERP	5,800 watts
HAAT	-5 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	63532
Callsign meaning	W Z CRuisin' (former branding)
Former callsigns	WHUC-FM (1968-1981) WRVW (1981-1995) WTHK (1995-2001)
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (CC Licenses, LLC)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	oldies935.com

WZCR (93.5 FM, "Oldies 93.5") is an oldies radio station licensed to Hudson, New York, and serving Columbia and Greene counties as well as the upper Hudson Valley, the southern Capital District, and Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and broadcasts from a tower located near the Hudson River in Hudson.

History

WZCR signed on in 1969 as WHUC-FM, sister to WHUC and the first FM station between Kingston and Albany. Initially airing automated easy listening music, the station would flip to a simulcast of WHUC's successful Top 40 format by 1971, a format it would keep for the next decade. During this time, it was not uncommon for the WHUC stations to appear in the ratings for the Albany market to the point that some Albany businesses advertised on the stations.

With The FCC requiring stations to stop simulcasting, the simulcast was broken in April 1981 with WHUC-FM flipping to Automated AC from Drake Chenault and taking the WRVW calls. This format was selected by the station's current General Manager. The station would take several variations of AC before flipping to country in 1988. Country would only last a couple of years before the station went through a variety of formats, including standards, big band, and an oldies format called 93Gold FM.

WRVW's oldies format was never a winning proposition, with two strong Albany oldies stations, WGY-FM and WTRY dominating the Hudson market. This would continue until early 1995 when Straus Media, owners of WCTW and WCKL in Catskill, bought WHUC and WRVW. Straus had earlier purchased WELV and 99.3 WWWK in Ellenville and all those stations, with the exception of WELV moved to the studios on Route 9G in Hudson.

In the Spring of 1995, WRVW and WWWK joined together as Thunder Country, a satellite-fed "Hot Country" format; with this format change, WRVW took the WTHK calls. WTHK struggled against WGNA-FM to the north and WRWD to the south, however the station did last out the 1990s. It was in 1997 that Straus's Hudson/Catskill stations were relocated to the company's Poughkeepsie headquarters, a move met with some local criticism.

The sale of Straus Media to Clear Channel Communications in 2000 led to the divesture of the Hudson/Catskill stations and WBPM in Kingston to Concord Media, an affiliated holding company. With this sale came the relocation of WTHK and its sister stations to its old facility in Hudson along with a format change that November to its current oldies format with the WZCR calls soon following. Clear Channel would later buy the Hudson/Catskill stations (less WCKL) in early 2003 with satellite-fed programming being soon replaced. WZCR would drop satellite broadcasting and go local in January 2005. The station continues to be a strong ratings leader with the oldies format.

On two occasions (in 2004 and 2005), WZCR has been simulcasted on WCKL as filler programming as Clear Channel has unsuccessfully tried to sell that station due to market concentration concerns.

External links

Oldies 93.5 WZCR official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WZCR

Radio-Locator information on WZCR

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WZCR

Radio stations in the Albany / Schenectady / Troy market

by FM frequency	88.3 89.1 89.7 89.9 90.3 90.7 90.7 90.7 90.9 91.1 91.5 92.3 92.9 93.1 93.5 93.7 94.5 94.7 94.9 95.5 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.3 97.5 97.7 97.9 98.3 98.5 98.5 99.1 99.5 99.9 100.3 100.9 101.3 101.7 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.5 104.7 104.9 105.7 106.1 106.5 107.1 107.7

by AM frequency	590 810¹ 900 930 980 1160 1190 1230 1240 1300 1330 1340 1400 1440 1460 1490 1540 1570

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

Digital radio	810 980 89.1-1 89.1-2 90.3-1 90.3-2 98.3-1 98.3-2 99.5-1 99.5-2 102.3-1 102.3-2 103.1-1 103.1-2 105.7-1 105.7-2 106.5-1 106.5-2 107.7-1 107.7-2

by callsign	W226AC W235AY W256BU W260CH W284BZ W291BY WABY WAIX WAJZ WAMC WAMC-FM WBAR-FM WBPM WCDB WCKM-FM WCQL WCSS WCTW WDCD WDCD-FM WENT WEQX WEXT WFFG-FM WFLY WFNY WGDJ WGNA-FM WGXC WGY¹ WGY-FM WHAZ WHAZ-FM WHUC WHVP WINU WIZR WJIV WJKE WKBE WKKF WKLI-FM WLJH WMHT-FM WMYY WNYQ WOFX WOPG WOPG-FM WPGL WPTR WPYX WQBJ WQBK-FM WQSH WRIP WROW WRPI WRUC WRVE WSDE WTMM-FM WTRY-FM WVCR-FM WVTL WXL34 WYAI WYJB WYKV WZCR

Defunct stations	WCKL WGFM WHRL WRSA WROW-FM WTRI WXKW

New York radio markets Albany–Schenectady–Troy Binghamton Buffalo–Niagara Falls Elmira–Corning Hudson Valley Nassau–Suffolk (Long Island) New York City Olean Plattsburgh Poughkeepsie Rochester Syracuse Utica–Rome Watertown Other New York radio regions Ithaca Jamestown–Dunkirk North Country Saratoga See also List of radio stations in New York Albany television Saratoga radio ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage.

Radio stations in the Pittsfield, Massachusetts market

By AM frequency	860 1110 1230 1340 1420 New York 590 810 1230 1300 1460

By FM frequency	89.3 89.7 91.1 91.7 91.9 93.9 95.9 96.3 97.7 98.3 98.7 100.1 101.1 101.7 104.3 104.7 105.1 New York 90.3 91.1 91.5 93.5 97.5 103.1 103.9 106.5

By callsign	W230AU W242AT W252BG W254AU W266AW WAMC WAMQ WBCR-LP WBEC WBEC-FM WBRK WBRK-FM WBSL WCFM WGDJ WGY WGY-FM WHAZ WHUC WHVP WJJW WKGT-LP WNAW WOPG WPYX WQBK WROW WRPI WRRS-LP WSBS WSGG WTBR WUPE WUPE-FM WZCR

Massachusetts radio markets Boston Cape Cod New Bedford–Fall River Springfield Worcester Other Massachusetts radio regions Pittsfield See also List of radio stations in Massachusetts

Oldies radio stations in the state of New York

By frequency	590 900 1420 1440 1450 1490 92.1 93.5 98.5 98.7 98.9 100.3 101.5 103.5

By callsign	WBRV WCKM-FM WDHI WGNY-FM WHDL WICY WJJL WJQZ WLNG WNRS WPAC WROW WXHC WZCR

By city	Albany Boonville Delhi Herkimer Homer Hudson Lake George Malone Niagara Falls Ogdensburg Olean Rosendale Sag Harbor Wellsville

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York See also Oldies Classic Hits

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia

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Coordinates: 42°15′14″N 73°45′43″W / 42.254°N 73.762°W / 42.254; -73.762

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