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WPXY-FM
WPXY-FM is a heritage Top 40/CHR radio station licensed to Rochester, New York, which broadcasts at 97.9 FM. Its transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill in Brighton, and its studios are located at High Falls Studios in downtown Rochester. WPXY also broadcasts on HD Radio, and includes a secondary subchannel, known as "Nina @ 97.9", which airs a Modern AC format.
History.
WPXY-FM signed on air on September 14, 1959 as WROC-FM,
Life" adult standards format before dropping that in January 1984 for a simulcast with its FM sister station, by the early 1980s known as WPXY-FM and airing the contemporary hit music format, which WPXY-FM still runs today. In 1990, the AM split from the simulcast and returned to Music of Your Life. In 1991, WPXY-AM changed to oldies as WKQG, then back to a simulcast with the FM (again as WPXY), and then, on November 1, 1993, after The Lincoln