WSNY

WSNY

City of license	Columbus, Ohio
Branding	Sunny 95
Slogan	"Refreshing Music!"
Frequency	94.7 (MHz) (also on HD Radio)
First air date	December 15, 1983
Format	Adult contemporary
ERP	22,000 Watts
Class	B
Transmitter coordinates	39°58′16.0″N 83°01′40.0″W
Callsign meaning	Sunny
Owner	Saga Communications, Inc.
Sister stations	WNND/WNNP, WVMX
Website	http://www.sunny95.com/

WSNY is an FM radio station in Columbus, Ohio located at 94.7 MHz.

WSNY, known on the air as "Sunny 95" plays adult contemporary most of the year. The one exception is during mid November and most of December, when the station switches its format to both traditional and contemporary Christmas music. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications. The station broadcasts with 22,000 watts of power and can be heard throughout central Ohio. WSNY is the only adult contemporary in the Columbus market. WLZT, after stunting with a Top 500 countdown over the Labor Day holiday weekend, shifted to an Oldies format.

History

The station began broadcasting a soft rock format on August 6, 1982 when DJ Chuck Martin played the Beatles, "Here Comes the Sun" as the first song to launch Sunny95. Originally, the call letters in the 1960s and 1970s were WSPO, the FM simulcast of WVKO (AM).

Before the change to Soft Rock, this station had a short successful CHR/Urban format under the WVKO FM branding. WVKO (AM) now airs Catholic programming.

Tom Collins, who consulted several Josephson International stations, was the Program Director who launched the new AC format for WSNY Sunny 95. The new jock lineup included long time Columbus radio personality Chuck Martin (from WVKO, WCOL) as morning man and Bob Simpson (afternoons).

Other notable personalities in the early Sunny 95 days include Bob Lewis, Bob Nunley, Tony Michaels, and Perry Joos.

Within the first year, legendary urban programmer Harry Lyles replaced Tom Collins as station Program Director. General manager Steve Joos introduced computerized music research and an effective listener focus group program.

WSNY were originally the call letters of an AM radio station in Schenectady, New York (1240-AM). WSNY changed its call letters to WWWD in the mid 1970s. The call letters WSNY represent W Sunny.

External links

• WSNY official website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WSNY
• Radio-Locator information on WSNY
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WSNY