WHJY

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Field	Value
name	WHJY
logo	WHJY logo.jpg
city	Providence, Rhode Island
country	US
area	Providence metropolitan area
branding	94HJY
airdate
frequency	94.1 MHz
format	Mainstream rock
erp	50,000 watts
haat	139 m
class	B
licensing_authority	FCC
facility_id	72298
coordinates
callsign_meaning	"Joy" (former easy listening format)
former_callsigns	WHIM-FM (1966–1977)
owner	iHeartMedia, Inc.
licensee	iHM Licenses, LLC
sister_stations
webcast
website
affiliations
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Its broadcast center, also used by its sister stations, is on Oxford Street, just west of Interstate 95 in Providence, and its transmitter is located on Eastern Avenue in East Providence. (The station's studios are located on the northeast corner of the building, facing I-95, and are sometimes referred to by DJs as "the Ghetto Penthouse.")

History

WHJY signed on March 14, 1966, as WHIM-FM, a simulcast of country music station WHIM (1110 AM). The WHIM simulcast lasted through the 1970s until the FM station broke with the AM and became WHJY, "Joy 94", a beautiful music/easy listening station. On September 4, 1981, the station flipped to album rock, branded as "94 HJY". David Place, the actual radio DJ on the air when the format switched, began with Bob Seger's "The Fire Down Below".

WHJY and The Station Night Club Fire

Main article: The Station nightclub fire

WHJY was not the sponsor of the Great White concert at the Station Night Club in West Warwick, Rhode Island, on February 20, 2003, but they promoted the event with DJ Michael "The Doctor" Gonsalves as emcee. A pyrotechnics display triggered a massive fire, killing Gonsalves and 99 other people and destroying the club. In Gonsalves' memory, the radio station has set up "The Doc Fund," a scholarship with Rhode Island College (his alma mater) to support the victims and families of those affected who attend the school.

Technical

WHJY transmits a 50,000-watt signal from a 550 ft tower (456 ft height above average terrain) at the end of Eastern Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island. WHJY and WLVO are combined into an Electronics Research Inc. (ERI) SHPX-4BC, 4-bay FM antenna at the top of the tower. The tower is also used as part of the WPMZ (formerly WHIM) AM array, which has a skirt on the tall FM tower, and a shorter, second tower, at the same location.

WHJY-HD2

Previously, WHJY-HD2 had aired iHeartMedia's "The Alternative Project" (from between 2006 through the early 2010s).

References

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