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| Broadcast area | Providence metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 94.1MHz |
| Branding | 94HJY |
| Programming | |
| Format | Mainstream rock |
| Affiliations | |
| Ownership | |
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| WHJJ,WSNE-FM,WWBB | |
| History | |
First air date | March 14, 1966; 59 years ago (1966-03-14) |
Former call signs | WHIM-FM (1966–1977) |
Call sign meaning | "Joy" (formereasy listening format) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 72298 |
| Class | B |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 139 meters (456 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°49′40.4″N71°22′7.2″W / 41.827889°N 71.368667°W /41.827889; -71.368667 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | 94hjy |
WHJY (94.1FM) is a commercialmainstream rockiHeartRadio station inProvidence, Rhode Island. WHJY has been a rock station since September 4, 1981.
Its broadcast center, also used by itssister stations, is on Oxford Street, just west ofInterstate 95 in Providence, and itstransmitter is located on Eastern Avenue inEast Providence. (The station's studios are located on the northeast corner of the building, facing I-95, and are sometimes referred to by DJs as "the Ghetto Penthouse.")
WHJY signed on March 14, 1966, as WHIM-FM, asimulcast ofcountry music stationWHIM (1110 AM). The WHIM simulcast lasted through the 1970s until the FM station broke with the AM and became WHJY, "Joy 94", abeautiful music/easy listening station. On September 4, 1981, the station flipped toalbum rock, branded as "94 HJY". David Place, the actualradio DJ on the air when the format switched, began withBob Seger's "The Fire Down Below".[2]
WHJY was not the sponsor of theGreat White concert at the Station Night Club inWest Warwick, Rhode Island, on February 20, 2003, but they promoted the event with DJ Michael "The Doctor" Gonsalves asemcee. A pyrotechnics display triggered a massive fire, killing Gonsalves and 99 other people and destroying the club. In Gonsalves' memory, the radio station has set up "The Doc Fund," a scholarship withRhode Island College (his alma mater) to support the victims and families of those affected who attend the school.
WHJY transmits a 50,000-watt signal from a 550-foot tower[3] (456 feetheight above average terrain)[4] at the end of Eastern Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island. WHJY andWLVO are combined into an Electronics Research Inc. (ERI) SHPX-4BC, 4-bay FM antenna at the top of the tower.[5] The tower is also used as part of theWPMZ (formerly WHIM) AM array, which has a skirt on the tall FM tower, and a shorter, second tower, at the same location.[6][7] WHJY had been transmitting anHD Radiodigital signal from this transmitter site as well, from between 2006 through the early 2010s, before ultimately ceasingHDdigital transmissions. WHJY no longer transmits inHDdigital. TheirHDdigital signal has been shut off and now the station transmits exclusively inanalog stereo FM once again.[8]
Previously, WHJY-HD2 had aired iHeartMedia's "The Alternative Project" (from between 2006 through the early 2010s).[9][10][11]