WSNY is an FM radio station in Columbus, Ohio located at 94.7 MHz. WSNY, known on the air as "Sunny 95" plays adult contemporary most of the year. The one exception is during mid November and most of December, when the station switches its format to both traditional and contemporary Christmas music. The station is owned by Saga Communications. The station broadcasts with 22,000 watts of power and can be heard throughout central Ohio. WSNY is the only adult contemporary in the Columbus market after WLZT flipped to oldies in 2011. Its studios are located in Upper Arlington and the transmitter site is northwest of Downtown Columbus. WBNS-TV also reports weather forecasts on WSNY.
History
The station began broadcasting a soft rock format on August 6, 1982 when DJ Chuck Martin played the Beatles, "Here Comes the Sun" as the first song to launch Sunny 95. Originally, the call letters in the 1960s and 1970s were WVKO-FM, the FM simulcast of WVKO. Before the change to Soft Rock, this station had a short successful CHR/Urban format under the WVKO-FM branding. WVKO now airs a Progressive Talk format. Tom Collins, who consulted several Josephson International stations, was the Program Director who launched the new AC format for WSNY. The new jock lineup included long time Columbus radio personality Chuck Martin as morning man and Bob Simpson. Other notable personalities in the early Sunny 95 days include Bob Lewis, Bob Nunnally, Tony Michaels, and Perry Joos. Within the first year, legendary urban programmer Harry Lyles replaced Tom Collins as station Program Director. General manager Steve Joos introduced computerized music research and an effective listener focus group program. WSNY was originally the callsign of an AM radio station in Schenectady, New York. WSNY changed its call letters to WWWD in the mid-1970s. As of 2018, Dino Tripodis and Stacy McKay had been morning hosts during the "Sunny in the Morning with Dino & Stacy" segment for more than 20 years. In June 2018, Tripodis announced his departure from the station after 24 years on-air at WSNY.
