WSGO (1440 AM) is a

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Oswego, New York Oswego () is a city in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 16,921 at the 2020 census. Oswego is located on Lake Ontario in Upstate New York, about 35 miles (55km) northwest of Syracuse. It promotes itself as "The Port C ...

, and serving the northern suburbs of the

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. The station is owned by

Galaxy Communications Galaxy Media (formerly Galaxy Communications) is a radio broadcasting company with radio stations entirely in the Central New York area. History Ed Levine, current president, attended the Newhouse School at Syracuse University where his love fo ...

and airs a

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. The station, like most of Galaxy Communications' Oswego cluster, is a direct repeater of a Syracuse

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, in WSGO's case, AM 1200

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. Like WTLA, it

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s its programming full-time on a 220

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, W261AC, at 100.1

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). WSGO operates at 1,000 watts by day. But at night, when radio waves travel farther, it reduces power to only 45 watts to avoid interfering with other stations on

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. It uses a

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at all times, located on Dutch Ridge Road in Oswego, adjacent to Route 481.

Programming

WSGO and WTLA have two local weekday sports shows, in middays and afternoon

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. The rest of the schedule features programming from

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, the

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(carrying

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sports), the

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and the

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. They had previously carried

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baseball games until the

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was discontinued in 2019 due to the high cost of satellite time.

History

WSGO

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the air on March 6, 1961. It was owned by Clifford C. Harris and the studios were in the Pontiac Hotel. Originally WSGO was a

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, required to go off the air at sunset to avoid interfering with other radio stations on

at night when radio waves travel farther. In the 1990s, it got permission from the

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to stay on the air at night, but at only 45 watts. In 2000, it was acquired by Galaxy Communications.Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page D-388
/ref> The studios and offices were relocated to Syracuse and WSGO became a full time

station to 1200 WTLA. For a time, it aired an adult standards format, from the "

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" network. It switched to

in 2010, affiliating with the

Network.

References

External links

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