WYAI
Air 1 radio station in Scotia, New York, United States
WYAI (93.7 FM) is a listener-supported, non-commercial Christian worship radio station licensed to Scotia, New York, and serving the Capital District and Mohawk Valley. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation and broadcasts at 1,250 watts effective radiated power from a location near Rotterdam Junction, New York. The station is an owned-and-operated station (O&O) of EMF's Air1 network.
Corinth history
The history of WYAI dates back to December 1981, when 93.5 signed on in Corinth as country station WSCG. WSCG was a live 24-hour-a-day operation throughout the 1980s, that ran into financial difficulties in the early 1990s. In early 1991, WSCG left the air, returning under new ownership in the summer of 1991, as beautiful music station WZZM. WZZM encountered financial problems of its own by early 1993, and left the air itself. It returned to the air, during the summer of 1993, as an Oldies station. It abruptly left the air again in March 1994. It returned to the air in May 1994, still doing oldies, but flipped to country two weeks later as Z-Country 93.
In the late 1990s, Bradmark Communications began studies for moving the station down to the Albany market and selling it at a profit. These plans were expanded when Bradmark sold the stations to Vox Media in 2000, which in March 2001, moved the oldies format of 107.1 WHTR to 93.5, and relaunched the Z-Country format as the locally-run WFFG (Froggy 107.1).
The public source identifies “WYAI” as air 1 radio station in Scotia, New York, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WYAI, radio and station.
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