WWFY (100.9 FM, "Froggy 104.3 & 100.9") is a

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licensed to serve

Berlin, Vermont Berlin ( ) is a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States, founded in 1763. The population was 2,849 at the 2020 census. Being the town between Barre and Montpelier, the two largest cities in the region, much of the commercial busines ...

. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio. It airs a

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format. The station has been assigned these call letters by the

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since May 21, 1999. While WWFY has broadcast to the Barre- Montpelier area since October 2000, the 100.9 frequency was originally allocated over the mountains in Middlebury, where the station signed on as WCVM on April 2, 1975. WCVM was a sister to WFAD (1490 AM) in Middlebury, and operated as a class A facility at 3000 watts. At its sign-on, WCVM carried an automated

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format which lasted for several years. In the 1990s, the station, as WGTK, aired a

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format under the name "K101"; it marketed itself as "The Champlain Valley's classic rock station". In 1999, "K101", while keeping the classic rock format, moved to 93.7 FM, and became WRRO "The Arrow". The current air staff includes JD Green (morning drive), Randy Laprade (midday) P.D. Jim Severance (afternoons) and

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(evenings). WWFY, along with 29 other stations in northern New England formerly owned by

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, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by Carlisle Capital Corporation, a company controlled by

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(owner of WBIN-TV in

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), on May 22, 2012. The station, and 12 of the other stations, were then acquired by Vertical Capital Partners, controlled by Jeff Shapiro. (updated May 23, 2012) The deal was completed on November 30, 2012. The Vertical Capital Partners stations were transferred to Shapiro's existing Great Eastern Radio group on January 1, 2013.

HD Radio

In September 2023, WWFY added a simulcast of sister station

WSNO-FM WSNO-FM (97.9 Hertz, MHz, "97.9 & 105.7 The Penguin") is a radio station city of license, licensed to Au Sable, New York, and serving the Burlington, Vermont, Burlington-Plattsburgh, New York, Plattsburgh-Lake Champlain media market, radio market ...

, which broadcasts an adult hits format branded "The Penguin", on its HD2 subchannel; its programming is also carried on

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W289CH (105.7 FM) in Barre. The move followed the shutdown of WSNO (1450 AM), the previous home of the "Penguin" programming, due to the loss of its transmitter site; the 105.7 translator formerly relayed WSNO (AM).FCC Report 9/24: Audacy Proposes to Revive Silent Las Vegas AMs
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