WAQY

WAQY

City	Springfield, Massachusetts
Broadcast area	Springfield, Massachusetts
Branding	Rock102
Slogan	Springfield's Classic Rock
Frequency	102.1 MHz (Channel 271) (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1953 (as WCRX)
Format	Classic rock
ERP	17,000 watts, Stereo
HAAT	238 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	58551
Callsign meaning	WACKY for former branding "Wacky102"
Former callsigns	WCRX (1953–1972)
Owner	Saga Communications (Saga Communications of New England, LLC)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	rock102.com

WAQY (102.1 FM) is a Springfield, Massachusetts area classic rock radio station. Since the late 1980s, the station has been known as "Rock102".

History

102.1 FM in Springfield, Massachusetts signed on as WCRX in 1953. The call letters stood for "Charles River Broadcasting extension," the station being a sister and extension of 102.5 FM WCRB in Boston, Massachusetts. Both the Springfield, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts stations programmed a classical music radio format overseen by Charles River Broadcasting owner Theodore Jones. In the mid 1970s, WAQY broadcast modern rock (Styx, Jethro Tull, Kansas, etc.) with song titles every third song and no on the air dj. August 1981, WAQY switched to a Rock music format known as AOR. Now known simply by the stations call letters WAQY, they played a mix of new rock music from the 1980s mixed with older rock artists of the '60s (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix etc.) and 1970s (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc.) Artists played included then current and popular Arena rock favorites Blue Öyster Cult, Journey, Foreigner and Fleetwood Mac as well as singer and songwriter artist from Tom Petty to Billy Joel. Hard rock and heavy metal acts like AC/DC, Van Halen and Rush were also core artists. In the mid 1980s WAQY adopted its current moniker "Rock102" playing up to five current rock songs an hour. By 1992, WAQY stopped playing current music and completed its evolution from an AOR to a classic rock format.

The station serves as the Pioneer Valley's affiliate for the New England Patriots radio network, and carries the syndicated Pink Floyd program "Floydian Slip."

Technical

WAQY transmits 17,000 watts from the top of Provin Mountain in Feeding Hills on the WWLP tower.^[1] WAQY transmits using a 4 bay Continental (ERI) center fed antenna and a Nautel NV20 HD ^[2] transmitter. WAQY's signal covers all of the Springfield, Massachusetts market, and can be heard as far south as New Haven, Connecticut and as far east as Boston, Massachusetts. WAQY is running a high level IBOC (HD Digital signal) at -14db versus the normal -20db.^[3]

References

External links

Official WAQY "ROCK102" website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WAQY

Radio-Locator information on WAQY

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WAQY

Radio stations in the Springfield, Massachusetts market

By AM frequency	560 640 730 1250 1270 1450 1490 1600

By FM frequency	88.5 89.5 89.5 89.9 90.7 91.7 91.9 93.1 94.7 98.3 99.3 99.7 100.9 102.1 103.3 103.5 104.5 104.9 105.5 106.3 107.9

By callsign	W283CK WACE WACM WAIC WAQY WARE WCCC WCCH WEIB WFCR WHAI WHLL WHMP WHYN WHYN-FM WLCQ-LP WLHZ-LP WLZX WMAS-FM WNNZ WNNZ-FM WRCH WREA WRNX WSCB WSKB WSPR WTCC WWEI WWQZ WXOJ-LP

Defunct stations	930/WREB 1430/WPNI 105.1/WNEK-FM

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 Springfield TV

Radio stations in the Hartford–New Britain–Middletown, Connecticut market

By AM frequency	840 910 1080 1150 1170 1230 1290 1360 1410 1480 1550 Springfield, Massachusetts 560

By FM frequency	88.9 89.3 89.9 90.5 91.3 92.5 93.7 94.5 95.7 96.5 97.3 97.9 99.1 100.5 101.3 102.9 104.1 104.9 105.9 106.9 Springfield, Massachusetts 93.1 94.7 102.1

By callsign	WAQY WCCC WCTF WDRC WDRC-FM WERB WHCN WHYN WHYN-FM WIHS WJMJ WKCI-FM WKND WKSS WLAT WMAS-FM WMRD WMRQ-FM WNEZ WNPR WNWW WPLR WPOP WQTQ WRCH WRYM WSDK WTIC WTIC-FM WUCS WWUH WWYZ WZBG WZMX

Connecticut radio markets Bridgeport Danbury Hartford–New Britain–Middletown New Haven New London Stamford–Norwalk See also List of radio stations in Connecticut

Classic rock radio stations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

By frequency	89.7 97.3 100.7 102.1

By callsign	WAQY WJDF WTBR-FM WZLX

By city	Boston Orange Pittsfield Springfield

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Massachusetts See also active rock classic rock mainstream rock modern rock

Saga Communications, Inc.

Radio stations	W261CV KAFE KAZR KBAI KDXY KEGI KGMI KISM KICD KICD-FM KIOA/K260AM KJBX KMIT KMRR KMYR KPSZ KPUG KRNT KSTZ KUQL WAFX WAQY WBAE WBCO WCLZ WCNR WCVQ WDBR WFEA WGAN/WGIN WHAI WHBG WHCU WHMP/WHMQ/WHNP WHQG WINA WIII WINQ WISE WIXY WJMR-FM WJOI WJYI WKBK WKFN WKLH WKNE WKVT WKVT-FM WLFZ WLRW WLVQ WLZX WMGX WMLL WMQR WNAX WNAX-FM WNND/WNNP WNOR WNRG-FM WNYY WOXL-FM WPOR WPVQ WQEL WQMZ WQNY WQPO WQQL WREE WRND WRND-FM WRSI WRSY WSIG WSNI WSNY WSVA WTAX WVAX WVMX WVVR WWRE WWWV WYMG WYNZ WYSE WYXL WYXY/W221CK WZAN WZBK WZID WZZP

Radio networks	Illinois Radio Network Michigan Farm Radio Network Michigan Radio Network Minnesota Farm Radio Network Minnesota News Network

Television stations	KAVU-TV (ABC) KOAM-TV (CBS) KFJX (Fox)¹ KVCT (Fox)¹ KXTS-LD (CBS) KMOL-LD (NBC) KVTX-LP (TMD) KUNU-LP (UNI)

¹Saga Communications operates these stations owned by Surtsey Media.

Coordinates: 42°04′59″N 72°42′14″W / 42.083°N 72.704°W / 42.083; -72.704

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