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WOFX (980AM) is aradio station licensed toTroy, New York. The station is owned byiHeartMedia and runs asports format and is theFox Sports Radio affiliate for theCapital District,Adirondacks, andBerkshires.^[2]

Much of WOFX's schedule is programming fromFox Sports Radio. Previously, WOFX airedImus in the Morning, a program which predated the sports format. However the show was taken off the schedule at the end of 2006 and replaced by Fox Sports Radio'sSteve Czaban. WOFX was also once home toJay Mohr's syndicated midday sports show. WOFX is the Albany market home to the syndicated Cigar Dave show.^[3]

In addition to sports talk, the station clears a sizeable amount ofplay by play on both the local and national levels. WOFX currently is home toNew York Knicks basketball. It carriesUniversity at Albanycollege football and men's basketball, someSyracuse University football and basketball games not heard onWGY, plus theNCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship among other events.

In the rare case of play by play conflicts, the latter games are usually heard on sister WTRY-FM, a procedure that has become more solidly done in the wake of the mild success of UAlbany football and the success of the Mets in the 2006 season.

From the station's sign-on in 1940 until 2000, thecall sign wasWTRY. Albany broadcastersWABY andWOKO petitioned the FCC to block approval of the new station and were denied. WTRY took to the air on 950 kHz with 1,000 watts of power, moving to 980 kHz on March 29, 1941, as part of the implementation of theNorth American Regional Broadcasting Agreement. In the early days of network radio, WTRY took the localCBS RadioNetwork affiliation from WOKO. The station's original owner was Troy Broadcasting Co.

During its 63 years, led by principal owner C. George Taylor and others, WTRY gave birth or adopted three other stations at varying times: WTRI-FM 102.7 (in the early 1950s, went silent),^[4] co-owned WTRI-TV channel 35 (later became WAST-TV 13 (1959–1981); nowWNYT) from 1954 to 1955 with Van Curler Broadcasting, and WTRY-FM 106.5 (nowWPYX).

WhenWROW took the CBS affiliation in 1954, WTRY briefly was the ABC affiliate beforeWPTR took that affiliation several years later. In the early 1960s, the station aired aTop 40 format (which gained a simulcast on 106.5 FM briefly in the early 1970s). The contemporary hits sound was maintained in some form until the early 1980s when it went through a long-term evolution which resulted in the station becomingoldies in 1986. In 1992, WTRY gained a simulcast onWTRY-FM (98.3 FM) which ended in 1994, then regained in a mutual arrangement two years later in which the FM became primary and the AM secondary with the AM splitting for alternate programming at points.

WTRY went through several ownership changes. Follow the selling its stake in WTRI, Troy Broadcasting, changes its name to Tri-City Radio, Inc. in late winter of 1956. In 1965, the station was acquired byNew Haven based Kops-Monahan Communications. In 1972, WTRY and WTRY-FM (106.5) were sold to Scott Broadcasting of Pennsylvania, Inc. In 1985, television personalityMerv Griffin, through his company Merv Griffin Enterprises, brought the stations and then sold it in 1994 to Capstar Broadcasting (which was controlled by billionaire mogulTom Hicks). In 1999, Capstar merged with another Hicks-owned company, Chancellor Media Corporation, to form AMFM Inc.

On March 17, 1997, theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with WTRY authorized to move from 980 to 1640 kHz.^[5] However, the station never procured theconstruction permit needed to implement the authorization, so the expanded band station was never built.

After the merger of AMFM and Clear Channel Communications (now known asiHeartMedia) in 2000, WTRY and WTRY-FM (98.3 FM) were permanently split with 980 AM flipping to sports and becomingWOFX while the oldies format stayed on 98.3 FM.

On September 20, 2010, with the flip ofWHRL to a simulcast oftalk radioWGY, WOFX's sports programming can now be heard on WGY-FM's HD2 channel.

Previously, WOFX has held the rights to theNew York Giants (which were moved to sisterWPYX),New York Jets football (currently onWQBK-FM), andNew York Mets baseball.^[6] They were the home ofAlbany Devils (previously theAlbany River Rats) hockey^[7] until the team relocated following the 2017 season. They were the home ofWestwood One's coverage of theNational Football League until 2019.^[8]

• List of radio stations in New York

• Facility details for Facility ID 37233 (WOFX) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• WOFX inNielsen Audio's AM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 202301 (W240EC) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• W240EC at FCCdata.org
• "History Cards for WOFX".Federal Communications Commission. (Guide to reading History Cards) (covering 1936-1981 as WTRY)

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