WSEN (FM)


WSEN is a radio station licensed to Mexico, New York, United States. The station serves the Syracuse area and is currently owned by Renard Communications Corporation, wholly owned by Craig Fox.

History

The station went on the air as WUPN on April 14, 1995, before giving those calls to the current WPNY-LP, a television station in Utica, in May 1996. Then, on May 6, 1996, the station changed its call sign to WNDR ; it became WVOQ in late 1998, WVOA on April 25, 2001, WVOU on May 19, 2009, and then back to WVOA-FM on September 8, 2009. The -FM suffix was added to the WVOA call sign on May 7, 2002; this was the result of an unrealized construction permit for an AM station in DeWitt with the WVOA call sign that was commonly owned with the station. Despite a similarity in call signs, there was no relation between WVOA-FM and the Voice of America service.
Most of WVOA's programming was religious in nature; however, some non-religious programming aired on the station, including "The Wax Museum with Ronnie Dark," a program dedicated to garage rock, progressive rock, British Invasion music, and deep cuts from the 1960s and 1970s, and "Hablando con Central New York", a Spanish language talk show hosted by Hugo Acosta.
On October 5, 2013, WVOA moved its intellectual property to an existing analog low-power television station on channel 6 in Syracuse; such stations broadcast their audio feeds on 87.7 MHz, a channel generally receivable on most FM radios. The station then changed back to WNDR-FM and began stunting with Christmas music. On December 26, 2013 WNDR began stunting with all-Beatles, branded as "WBTL".
On January 20, 2014 WNDR-FM ended stunting and launched a classic hits format, branded as "The Dinosaur".
On April 6, 2016, the WNDR-FM call letters were swapped with WSEN-FM. The -FM suffix was dropped from the WSEN call sign on August 21, 2017.

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