WIZR

WIZR (930 AM) is a radio station that broadcasts a Hot AC format. Licensed to Johnstown, New York, USA, the station serves the Mohawk Valley area. The station is owned by the Cranesville Radio Network and features hit songs from the 90's, 2000's, and 2010's.

History

WIZR signed on in 1964, airing a middle of the road format; four years later, sister station WIZR-FM 104.9 (now WINU in Altamont, New York) signed on as a simulcast of the AM station's programming. In 1973, the stations flipped to a top 40 simulcast; with the FM side flipping to oldies in 1980.

With the decline of top 40 formats on AM, WIZR flipped to Music of Your Life under the call letters WMYL in 1981; WIZR-FM signed off in 1982 and returned after a one-year absence, simulcasting the AM's adult standards format. In 1984, Joe Caruso acquired the stations, and reinstated the WIZR call letters on the AM side while the FM took on a new format and the WSRD call letters.

In early 1998, Joe Caruso sought to move FM 104.9 closer to the Albany market by securing a construction permit to move WSRD to Altamont, New York; later that year, Pamal Broadcasting acquired both stations for $2.2 million, upon the closure of the sale, former sister station WSRD moved to its new transmitter site and is now WINU, while WIZR began to carry ABC's now-defunct Timeless radio network.