WDBY

WDBY (105.5 FM, "The Wolf") is an American country music radio station licensed to Patterson, New York.

The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts from a tower located in Patterson, New York, near the Putnam/Dutchess county line.

Even though the hills in and around Danbury limits the main 105.5 signal, the Brookfield booster has the ability to cover the primary coverage area.

Valentine was able to find a "gray area" at 105.5, at sufficient distance from WDHA-FM in Morristown, New Jersey, as to avoid short-spacing with that co-channel station.

When Valentine ran short of funds to complete building the station, he partnered with Richard Novik, owner of now-defunct WPUT (1510 AM) in Brewster, New York.

Valentine did manage to get some classical music on the station: an hour a day at 7:00 p.m. weeknights, called "Tableside Concert"; as well as a couple of specialty shows on Sundays.

The original staff consisted of Ron Wilson (from WPUT) in mornings; Jennifer Dudley in afternoons; Kenn Hayes (from WKTU and WTFM in New York City) at night; and Kevin O’Keefe on overnights.

Valentine and Novik sold WRVH to Ron Graiff, who changed the format to adult contemporary, and the call letters to WMJV-FM.

In the early 1990s, Majic 105's on-air staff included Bob Stanhope, Dick Farrell and Gary Peters (mornings), PD/MD Al Matthews (middays), Flora Whitelaw, Langdon Towne and Cutler Whitman (afternoons), "Rich Andrews" aka talk show host Joe Thomas, Hank Tuttle and Jim Hartman (nights), John Harrison, Cutler Whitman, Langdon Towne and Christian (Chris Chase) Switzer (overnights) and weekenders Joe Rondini, JJ, Jed Taylor, Rob "Robbie" Adams and Rob Deldin.

In late September 1993 in order to more effectively compete with WHUD and WFAS-FM in Westchester and Putnam County and WDAQ in Danbury, Majic 105's owner/manager Ron Graiff acted on impulse and purchased WVIP-FM in Mount Kisco, New York, from Martin Stone.

The station then signed off at midnight and was moved overnight from Radio Circle in Mount Kisco to the WMJV studios in West Patterson.

On September 25, the plan turned into reality as WVIP-FM became WMJU (the calls meant nothing, but was alphabetically before WMJV and looked similar).

The format was upgraded from AC to hot adult contemporary and in time it became Putnam County's Arbitron rated #1 radio station.

Super Station was locally programmed by multi-market PD (and former WVIP-AM-FM PD) Al Matthews (middays) with an air staff that included Gary Peters, Ray Graff and John Chipman (mornings), Cutler Whitman and Chris Cimmino (afternoons), APD/MD Jim Hartman (nights), Langdon Towne (overnights) and weekenders Jed Taylor, Alix Bragga, Colleen Brown, KC Kressu, Kyle Kelley, Steve Maiolo, Bobby West, Tim Court, Paul Hoch, Chris Todaro, Jim McCannon, Mike Cannavaro and Rob Deldin.

WVYB's new calls were WAXB (the B-105 brand was kept) with an oldies format via satellite from Westwood One except for its live morning show with John Chipman and Steve Maiolo.

In October 2008 Cumulus Media sold the West Patterson, New York, property and its new owners tore down the long unused studio building.

Due to economic conditions and signal issues, the 106.3 frequency has never been a stand-alone FM since its sale and split from WVIP back in late September 1993.

Though WAXB had good ratings in both Danbury and Dutchess County with oldies, listeners were aging out of the format and Cumulus management sensed a hole for a more contemporary competitor against market rival WDAQ.

WAXB flipped to Adult Top 40 on September 26, 2002, as Y-105 after two days of stunting and taking the new WDBY calls (for Danbury) that October.