WNSY

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WNSY FM (frequency: 100.1, formally WCHK-FM) is a radio station in the north Georgia mountains that simulcasts WLKQ-FM "La Raza", with a regional Mexican format.

[edit] History

First applied for in 1995, it went on the air as WCHK-FM in 1998 (the original WCHK-FM, 105.7 FM, is now WWVA-FM and owned by Clear Channel). The station became oldies (Sunny 100) in 1999. In 2004, the station's license was assigned from deceased owner Charles McClure (who also owned WCHK AM and the original WCHK-FM) to wife Dorothy, and to Dean Copelan and SunTrust bank.

WNSY has Talking Rock, Georgia as its city of license, with a transmitter near Jasper, Georgia. Both are to the far north-northwest of Atlanta, well beyond even the exurbs of metro Atlanta. Listening range is most of northwest Georgia, not including south or southeast metro Atlanta very well for the most part.

In January 2007, Davis Broadcasting of Columbus, Georgia completed the purchase of WNSY and WCHK. WNSY, Sunny 100.1 went off the air on the morning of January 22, 2007, and returned on February 1 with the simulcast of WLKQ, carrying Latino-oriented programming. This would add a fifth Latino radio station to Northwest Georgia, as Clear Channel owns WWVA-FM Viva 105.7 FM and WBZY El Patron 105.3 FM, and a local group owns WDAL 1420 AM in Dalton, which was formerly owned by Clear Channel.

Loyal listeners to Sunny 100 were blindsided with the loss of the station. For the next 14 months, only two FM stations in all of Northwest Georgia carried any semblance of the classic rock/oldie genre. WATG "95.7 The Ridge" in Rome and WSRV "97.1 The River" in Atlanta, both under the classic hits format. The oldies format returned in March 2008 at WYAY.

[edit] Trivia

McClure owned the original WCHK-FM, which was located at 105.5 FM and broadcast a locally-oriented format that was a mix of country and Southern Gospel music. In 1991 the station received FCC approval to upgrade to a much stronger signal and move to the 105.7 frequency, allowing it to be heard throughout the Atlanta market. The station remained under local management for a little over a year, briefly as “North Metro's K-105" then with a revamped format as "Atlanta's Classic Country 105.7". In 1993 the frequency was leased to Jacor (which would later merge with Clear Channel) and simulcasted WGST under the WGST-FM callsign. In 2000, Clear Channel abandoned the WGST simulcast, and the station became WMXV "Mix 105.7".

In 2003, when then WFOX (now WSRV) abandoned its oldies format, Clear Channel picked up the format, becoming WLCL "Cool 105.7". For the next year, Cherokee Broadcasting was the legal owner of the licenses of two oldies stations in the same area, WNSY and WLCL (although Cherokee Broadcasting only operated WNSY). The 105.7 frequency was sold outright to Clear Channel in 2004, and oldies was abandoned on 105.7 in May 2005.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNSY
• Radio Locator information on WNSY
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WNSY

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