With WAMC-FM's tower in Western Massachusetts, some listeners in the Albany area may tune in AM 1400 if they have trouble receiving the FM signal.
WAMC was first licensed on August 1, 1930,[3] to W. Neal Parker and Herbert M. Metcalfe as WBGF in Glens Falls, New York, and initially broadcast on 1370 kHz.
WABY moved to 1400 kHz in 1941 due to the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) frequency shift.
Getting many key market names, WABY spent years as one of the highest-rated standards stations in the United States, and added an FM simulcast on WEMX (94.5 MHz) in 1995.
In February 1999, Bendat sold his stations to Tele-Media, Inc., which switched the AM side to an all-news format by day with simulcasting of WABY-FM (the former WEMX, which itself would flip to adult contemporary as WKLI that summer) on nights and weekends.
This arrangement remained through Tele-Media's ownership of the station, the company's sale of WABY and WKLI to Galaxy Communications in August 2001, and the flip of 94.5 FM to classic rock as WRCZ.