WSEY (95.7 FM, "Sky 95.7") is a radio station licensed to
Oregon, Illinois
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History
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, covering Northern Illinois, including
Rockford,
Dixon, and
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. WSEY currently airs an
adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
format and is owned by
NRG Media
NRG Media is a media company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and was founded in 2005.
History
NRG Media was founded on March 1, 2005, as a result of a merger of NewRadio Group and the radio assets of Waitt Media. At its inception it was th ...
.
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History
The station began broadcasting December 27, 1999,Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or, in the case of carols or songs, may employ lyrics whose subject ma ...
, beginning its oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...
format in January 2000.Format Changes & Updates
, ''The M-Street Journal''. Vol. 17 No. 1. January 5, 2000. p. 2. Retrieved July 21, 2018. The station's format would later shift to classic hits. Two decades later in February 2020, WSEY changed its format and branding as ''Sky 95.7'' broadcasting an
adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
format.
References
External links
WSEY's website*
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
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NRG Media radio stations
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Illinois
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