WUSY


WUSY is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Cleveland, Tennessee, and serving the Chattanooga metropolitan area. The station airs a country music radio format. Local DJs staff the station by day, with the syndicated Cody Alan Show heard overnight.
WUSY's studios and offices are on Old Lee Highway in Chattanooga. The transmitter is off Sawyer Cemetery Road in Signal Mountain.
WUSY broadcasts using the HD Radio format. Its country music is heard on HD 1 and an urban contemporary format known as "Real 96.1" is heard on its HD 2 channel. It is also heard on 250 watt translator station W241AF in Rossville at 96.1 MHz.

History

On August 1, 1961, WCLE-FM first signed on the air. It was the sister station to AM 1570 WCLE. Because WCLE was a daytimer, the FM station simulcast the AM's programming by day and continued broadcasting at night. At first, the station was powered at 5,100 watts and only served the Cleveland area.
In 2000, Cumulus announced it would buy 11 radio stations in 4 markets from iHeartMedia in exchange for 25 radio stations in 5 markets plus cash as a part of that company's merger with AMFM Incorporated.Other Clear Channel stations were WLOV, sports talk WUUS, CHR WKXJ, active rock WRXR, and oldies WSGC.
On November 1, 2017, iHeartMedia announced that WUSY, along with all of their sister stations in Chattanooga and Richmond, will be sold to Entercom due to that company's merger with CBS Radio. The sale was completed on December 19, 2017.
WUSY is a 7 time winner of the ACM Awards and nominated in 2004, on the CMA Awards, WUSY is a 13 time winner from 1995-2001, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018; their on-air personalities have also won awards in their own right.

On-air personalities

Current on-air lineup:
Weekend programming includes "The Crook and Chase countdown show", and a Sunday morning gospel program called "The Gospel Road” with Ken Hicks.
Former on-air personalities:
W241AF in Rossville, Georgia rebroadcasts WUSY's HD2 channel. On April 2, 2012, this station debuted "The Beat", an urban contemporary format after stunting with "Beat It" by Michael Jackson. The translator's power was increased from 10 to 250 watts.
On November 11, 2014 W241AF/WUSY-HD2 changed format from urban contemporary to classic country, branded as "US101 The Legend 96.1".
On November 30, 2016 W241AF/WUSY-HD2 returned to an urban contemporary format from classic country, branded as "Real 96.1".