WSEN
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| WSEN-FM | |
| City of license | Baldwinsville, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Central New York |
| Branding | FM: "92.1 WSEN" AM: "Oldies 1050" |
| Slogan | "Good Time Rock & Roll" |
| Frequency | FM: 92.1 MHz AM: 1050 kHz |
| First air date | 1959 (AM) 1967 (FM) |
| Format | FM: Classic Hits AM: Oldies |
| ERP | FM: 25,000 watts AM: 2,500 watts (day), 19 watts (night) |
| HAAT | FM: 91 meters |
| Class | FM: B1 AM: D |
| Facility ID | FM: 7716 AM: 7712 |
| Callsign meaning | W SENeca (after the Seneca River, which flows through Baldwinsville, WSEN's city of license) |
| Owner | Buckley Broadcasting Company (Buckley Broadcasting of New York, LLC) |
| Website | wsenfm.com |
WSEN is a radio station serving the Syracuse, New York metropolitan area, playing good time rock & roll from the 1960s and 1970s, with a few songs from the early 1980s thrown in.
The simulcasts broadcast on the FM dial at 92.1 megahertz, and on the AM dial at 1050 kilohertz and is owned by Buckley Broadcasting Company, which also owns WDRC-FM, an oldies station serving the Hartford, Connecticut/Springfield, Massachusetts metropolitan area. WSEN's transmitter is located in Baldwinsville, New York.
The station is currently under a local marketing agreement with Jim Johnson (doing business as "Leatherstocking Media Group"), owner of WMCR. Johnson is working to buy the station and its sister, WFBL. Shortly after Johnson took over the station, the AM/FM simulcast was split: the oldies format of WFBL moved to WSEN-AM, to make room for the return of talk radio on WFBL.
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[edit] History
WSEN-AM (250 w. 1050 KC) began operations on February 25, 1959 and was licensed by Century Radio Corp. Originally a current hits station it changed to Country in 1962 and was the first country station "north of the Mason-Dixon line." In 1967 sister station WSEN-FM began operations as a full-time country outlet, thus complimenting the AM. Century Radio sold the stations in 1974 and flipped to its current format in 1986.
In April 2008, WSEN split its format: the 1970s music will continue to air on WSEN as part of a new classic hits format, while the 1960s music will be moved to WFBL, to become a new "real oldies" station with 1950s music added into the playlist. WFBL's oldies format moved to WSEN-AM in October 2009.
[edit] Programming and personalities
WSEN has been transitioning from a station that had local jocks 24 hours a day as recently as 2008, to one that relies heavily on automation, syndication, and voice tracking, a trend mirrored by many stations in the United States. Only morning host Gary Dunes and afternoon man John Carucci are currently live and local.
[edit] Gary Dunes
Gary Dunes is the host of Gary Dunes and the Morning Crew, which airs during morning drive Monday through Friday.
[edit] Other personalities
Since March 2009, Floyd Wright has voicetracked the midday shift from sister station WDRC-FM in Hartford, and will do so until Johnson takes over WSEN. John Carucci is the afternoon drive personality, and the syndicated Tom Kent show airs from 7-midnight. Overnights are automated.
[edit] Syndicated programs
Syndicated programs heard on WSEN include SuperGold with Mike Harvey, Tom Kent's Ultimate Party, American Gold with Dick Bartley, American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, The 70s with Steve Goddard, Goddard's Gold, "Dick Clark Presents Rewind with Gary Bryan", Back to the 70's and American Hit List with M.G. Kelly, Beatle Brunch with Joe Johnson, The Beatle Years with Bob Malik and "Hot Rod Radio" with Wings Kalahan. (see the station's Web site for more detailed information).
[edit] External links
- 92.1 WSEN Website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WSEN
- Radio-Locator information on WSEN
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WSEN
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WSEN
- Radio-Locator Information on WSEN
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WSEN
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