Media in New York's Capital District

The media in New York's Capital District is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy media market, which is the 59th largest in the United States,[1] includes all of the 11 counties of the Capital District, along with Hamilton County, New York, as well as Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and Bennington County, Vermont. In total, there are 16 AM/MW stations, 30 full-power FM stations, 14 low-power FM translators, 8 full power analog TV stations, 5 low-power TV translators, and 8 full power digital TV (DTV) stations licensed to communities within 30 miles (48 km) of downtown Albany. In terms of broadcast media, Albany is part of Arbitron market #63 (radio), and Nielsen DMA #57 (television), and is a broadcast market with historical relevance. The pioneering influence of General Electric in Schenectady directly contributed to the area emerging as the birthplace of station-based television (WRGB) and one of the earliest FM broadcast stations (today's WRVE), in addition to the first federally licensed radio station in upstate New York, WGY.

Print

Newspaper

The Albany Times Union is area's primary daily newspaper; its headquarters moved to suburban Colonie from Albany in the 1970s, after a dispute with then-Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd over land needed for expansion. More localized are the Amsterdam Recorder for Montgomery and Fulton County; The Daily Gazette, which focuses primarily on Schenectady; The Daily Mail in Greene County; the Gloversville Leader-Herald for Fulton County; The Post-Star, which focuses on Washington, Warren, and northern Saratoga counties; the Troy Record, which focuses on Troy; the Register-Star for Columbia County; and The Saratogian, which focuses on Saratoga County.

Weekly

• Adirondack Moneysaver - Saratoga County free shopper's guide, with local merchant specials, classifieds, free non-profits

The Business Review - a business weekly published each Friday

• Legislative Gazette - covers New York State politics; based in Albany
• Metroland - a free alternative / lifestyle newsweekly printed in Albany; publishes on Thursday
• Saratoga TODAY Newspaper - free news weekly printed by Saratoga Publishing, published every Friday for Saratoga Springs and surrounding communities
• Spotlight Newspapers - local news, events and classifieds printed in several different editions for select suburban towns in the Capital region
• Tuesday Edition - family-oriented events in and around the Capital District

Other

Campus publications

• Albany Student Press - published by the students of the University at Albany, SUNY
• The Chronicle - published by students at The College of Saint Rose; printed by The Daily Gazette; published every Tuesday during the school year

Radio

In 1947, this region was also home to the first independently owned and operated stand-alone FM radio station in the United States, W47A. In the early 2000s, the greater Albany market had the distinction of having the highest concentration of FM broadcast stations east of the Mississippi River. The Capital District has three local News/Talk radio stations, WGY, WROW, and WGDJ on the AM (MW) band. All feature a mixture of locally oriented and nationally syndicated programming. There are two Sports formatted stations: WOFX, local affiliate for Fox Sports Radio; and WTMM, local affiliate for ESPN Radio. Both stations provide local sports and sports-talk programming as well as national content. The FM dial is primarily made up of commercial music-formatted stations similar to those in other cities around North America, the largest of which include Pop music station WFLY 'FLY-92', Adult Contemporary WYJB 'B-95.5', Hot AC WRVE '99.5 The River', Rock station WQBK-FM 'Q-103', Classic Rock WPYX 'PYX-106', and Country music WGNA-FM 'Country 107.7'. Public radio broadcasting is available from two organisations: Northeast Public Radio serves the Capital Region via their flagship station WAMC-FM, and is the primary local affiliate for NPR network programming, and WMHT-FM is another local outlet that clears select NPR and PRI programming. WAMC focuses on News & Talk programming during the day, various music programs and BBC World Service programming in the evening, while WMHT-FM mainly provides Classical Music programming for most of their broadcast schedule. There are no radio stations in the Albany area that provide programming in languages other than English on a full-time basis. A few individual programs in languages including Spanish, Italian and Arabic are scheduled, primarily on college owned and operated stations.

AM stations

Frequency	Callsign	Format	City	Owner	Notes
590 kHz	WROW	Oldies	Albany	Pamal Broadcasting	CBS News affiliate
810 kHz	WGY-AM	News/Talk	Schenectady	iHeartMedia	Fox News Channel; Rush Limbaugh Syracuse University sports, HD Radio.
900 kHz	WABY	Standards	Watervliet	Empire Broadcasting Corporation	Standards
980 kHz	WOFX	Sports	Troy	iHeartMedia	FOX Sports affiliate, UAlbany football & basketball Boston Red Sox baseball, NY Jets football. HD Radio.
1160 kHz	WSSV	Classic hits	Mechanicville	Empire Broadcasting Corporation
1240 kHz	WPTR	Sports	Schenectady	Empire Broadcasting Corporation	CBS Sports Radio affiliate
1300 kHz	WGDJ	Talk radio	Rensselaer	Capital Broadcasting, Inc.	ABC News, Siena College men's basketball
1330 kHz	WHAZ	Christian	Troy	Capital Media Group
1400 kHz	WAMC	NPR	Albany	Northeast Public Radio	Simulcast of WAMC-FM
1460 kHz	WOPG	Catholic	Albany	Pax et Bonum, Inc.	EWTN Radio affiliate

FM stations

Frequency	Callsign	Format	City	Owner	Notes
88.3 MHz	WVCR-FM	College/Variety hits	Loudonville	Siena College
89.1 MHz	WMHT-FM	NPR/Classical	Schenectady	WMHT Educational Telecommunications
89.7 MHz	WRUC	College	Schenectady	Union College
90.3 MHz	WAMC-FM	NPR	Albany	Northeast Public Radio	2 services in HD Radio
90.7 MHz	WGXC-FM	Community radio	Acra	Wave Farm
90.9 MHz	WCDB	College	Albany	University at Albany, SUNY
91.5 MHz	WRPI	College	Troy	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
92.3 MHz	WFLY	Contemporary Hit Radio	Troy	Pamal Broadcasting
93.7 MHz	WYAI	Christian CHR	Scotia	Educational Media Foundation	Air 1 affiliate
94.5 MHz	WYKV	Christian Contemporary	Ravena	Educational Media Foundation	K-LOVE affiliate
95.5 MHz	WYJB	Adult Contemporary	Albany	Pamal Broadcasting
96.3 MHz	WAJZ	Rhythmic Contemporary	Voorheesville	Pamal Broadcasting
96.7 MHz	WMHH	Christian talk	Clifton Park	Mars Hill Broadcasting
98.3 MHz	WTRY-FM	Oldies	Rotterdam	iHeartMedia	2 services via HD Radio
99.5 MHz	WRVE	Hot Adult Contemporary	Schenectady	iHeartMedia	2 services via HD Radio
100.9 MHz	WKLI-FM	Country	Albany	Pamal Broadcasting
102.3 MHz	WKKF	Contemporary Hit Radio	Ballston Spa	iHeartMedia	2 services via HD Radio
103.1 MHz	WGY-FM	News/Talk	Schenectady	iHeartMedia	Fox News Channel; Rush Limbaugh Syracuse University sports
103.9 MHz	WPBZ-FM	Soft adult contemporary	Rensselaer	Townsquare Media	Buffalo Bills football
104.5 MHz	WTMM-FM	ESPN Sports	Mechanicville	Townsquare Media	Albany Devils hockey NY Yankees baseball
104.9 MHz	WINU	Sports Radio	Altamont	Pamal Broadcasting	CBS Sports Radio affiliate NY Mets baseball
105.7 MHz	WQBK-FM	Classic rock	Malta	Townsquare Media	HD Radio
106.5 MHz	WPYX	Classic rock	Albany	iHeartMedia	NY Giants football 2 services via HD Radio
107.7 MHz	WGNA-FM	Country	Albany	Townsquare Media	HD Radio

Fringe FM signals which can be received in the Albany market include:

Frequency	Callsign	Format	City	Owner	Notes
90.7 MHz	WPGL	Christian	Pattersonville	Sound of Life Radio	Simulcast on 94.9 Albany
91.1 MHz	WHVP	Christian	Hudson	Sound of Life Radio
91.1 MHz	WSPN	College	Saratoga Springs	Skidmore College
92.9 MHz	WBPM	Classic Hits	Saugerties	Pamal Broadcasting
93.5 MHz	WZCR	Oldies	Hudson	iHeartMedia
94.7 MHz	WBAR-FM	Christian	Lake Luzerne	Capital Media Group	Simulcast of WHAZ-AM
95.9 MHz	WCQL	Hot Adult Contemporary	Queensbury	Regional Radio Group
97.3 MHz	WMYY	Christian	Schoharie	Capital Media Group	Simulcast of WHAZ-AM
97.5 MHz	WHAZ-FM	Christian	Hoosick Falls	Capital Media Group	Simulcast of WHAZ-AM
97.7 MHz	WEXT	Adult Album Alternative	Amsterdam	WMHT Educational Telecommunications
97.9 MHz	WRIP	Adult Contemporary	Windham	Rip Radio, LLC
98.5 MHz	WCTW	Hot Adult Contemporary	Catskill	iHeartMedia
98.5 MHz	WCKM-FM	Classic Hits	Lake George	Regional Radio Group
100.3 MHz	WFFG-FM	Country	Warrensburg	Pamal Broadcasting
101.3 MHz	WJKE	Adult Contemporary	Stillwater	Empire Broadcasting Corporation
101.7 MHz	WNYQ	Classic Hits	Hudson Falls	Pamal Broadcasting
101.9 MHz	WJIV	Christian	Cherry Valley	Christian Broadcasting System
102.7 MHz	WEQX	Modern Rock	Manchester, VT	Northshire Broadcasting
103.5 MHz	WQSH	Alternative rock	Cobleskill	Townsquare Media
107.1 MHz	WKBE	Adult Album Alternative	Corinth	Pamal Broadcasting

Television

WRGB has the distinction of being the very first affiliated station of the NBC Television Network. The Albany TV DMA is served by the following stations, providing programming from many of the English-language American broadcast television networks: WRGB (CBS), WTEN (ABC), WNYT (NBC), WXXA (Fox), WMHT (PBS), WCWN (CW), WNYA (MyNetworkTV), and WYPX (ION). There are currently no local affiliates for any of the Spanish-language domestic broadcast television networks, however the national service of Univision is provided via cable TV. Local cable TV operator Charter Communications provides a 24-hour cable news television channel, Spectrum News Capital Region (formerly Capital News 9, YNN Capital Region, and Time Warner Cable News Capital Region; now covering Albany and Glens Falls). Christian television networks TBN and 3ABN are available via low-power translator service to the immediate metro area. Unlike many television markets around the country, TV stations from neighboring markets cannot normally be received in the greater Albany area due to distance and terrain.

PSIP Channel (Cable)	Callsign	Affiliation	City of license	Owner	Notes
6 (6)	WRGB	CBS	Schenectady, NY	Sinclair Broadcast Group	DTV Ch. 6 (1806)
10 (10)	WTEN	ABC	Albany, NY	Nexstar Media Group	DTV Ch. 26 (1810)
13 (13)	WNYT	NBC	Albany, NY	Hubbard Broadcasting	DTV Ch. 12 (1813)
15 (None)	WEPT-CD	AMGTV	Kinderhook, NY	Venture Technologies Group	Analog low-power station
17 (11)	WMHT	PBS	Schenectady, NY	WMHT Educational Telecommunications	DTV Ch. 34 (1811)
14 (14)	WYBN	Independent	Windham, NY	Cable Ad Net New York, Inc.	DTV Ch. 14.1 thru 14.8
23 (8)	WXXA-TV	FOX	Albany, NY	Shield Media (operated by WTEN/Nexstar Media Group)	DTV Ch. 7 (1808)
45 (15)	WCWN	CW	Schenectady, NY	Sinclair Broadcast Group	DTV Ch. 43 (1815)
51 (4)	WNYA	MyTV	Pittsfield, MA	Hubbard Broadcasting	DTV Ch. 13 (1804)
58 (None)	W58CX	3ABN	Saratoga Springs, NY	3ABN Inc.	Satellite fed low-power translator Transmitter located in New Scotland NY
55 (20)	WYPX	ION	Amsterdam, NY	ION Media Networks	DTV Ch. 50 (1820)

Charter Communications also provides a local 24-hour rolling news service to its subscribers, Spectrum News Capital Region (formerly Capital News 9) on cable channel 9.

References

1. "Nielsen DMA Rankings 2019". Retrieved 2019-07-28.

External links

• Saint Rose Internet Radio: Internet based radio station for The College of Saint Rose
• Albany, NY on American Radio Map (Radiomap.us)