WZUN (1070 AM) is a

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airing a

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format, twin-licensed to both Sandy Creek and

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, and effectively serving the

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market to the south. The station is owned by

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, and is part of a simulcast with 102.1

WZUN-FM WZUN-FM (102.1 MHz "Sunny 102") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Phoenix, New York, and serving the Syracuse metropolitan area. The station is owned by Edward Levine's Galaxy Communications through licensee Galaxy Syracuse Licensee LL ...

. By day, WZUN is powered at 2,500

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s non-directional. It is a daytime-only station, but uses an FM translator station broadcasting around the clock. W291BU at 106.1

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is licensed to

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, though this translator mainly covers Oswego.

History

The station signed on August 8, 1974 as WSCP, a

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radio station owned by Oswego Jefferson Broadcasting. Wheat Hill Broadcasting bought the station in 1986. In January 1987, Wheat Hill signed on WSCP-FM (101.7) as a simulcast of the AM station. WSCP went into

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in 1992; in 1994, the stations went silent. At the time of the shutdown, the AM station programmed a

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format, with country music continuing on WSCP-FM. Tri-County Broadcasting bought WSCP and WSCP-FM out of bankruptcy in 1995, and soon returned WSCP-FM to the air with country music; in August 1996, the AM station returned to the air as a simulcast of WSCP-FM. By June 2000, the stations had shifted to

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. Galaxy Communications purchased the WSCP stations in 2001. In May 2003, Galaxy began simulcasting WSCP-FM on translator station W267AL (101.3), bringing the station's programming to Syracuse. WSCP-FM was sold to the

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in 2007 and is now WGKV, part of the K-LOVE network. Galaxy retained WSCP, and switched it to a simulcast of

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station

WTKW WTKW ("TK99") is a classic rock radio station in Bridgeport, New York. The station broadcasts to the Syracuse, New York market on a frequency of 99.5 FM. The station also simulcasts on full-power satellite WTKV (105.5 FM) in Minetto, New York ( ...

. On March 5, 2010, WSCP switched to ESPN Deportes Radio, coinciding with sister stations WTLA and

WSGO WSGO (1440 AM) is a commercial radio station, licensed to Oswego, New York, and serving the northern suburbs of the Syracuse metropolitan area. The station is owned by Galaxy Communications and airs a sports radio format. The station, like most ...

switching to

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. On June 6, 2018, the station changed its call sign to WZUN, sharing a call sign with its sister station on 102.1 MHz. ESPN Deportes Radio ceased operations in September 2019, and the station became part of a simulcast with

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* * {{Daytime-only radio stations in New York ZUN (AM) Radio stations established in 1974

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1974 establishments in New York (state) Classic hits radio stations in the United States