Programming
Like its Clear Channel sister stations, WGY carries the standardized Clear Channel talker lineup of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Berry (radio host), Mark Levin and Coast to Coast AM. Newscasts air every 30 minutes with more frequent coverage in cases of breaking news or inclement weather. Top-of-hour newscasts are approximately six to seven minutes long and usually include two minutes of Fox News Radio, award-winning local news, traffic ("WGY All-Day Traffic"), and weather ("WGY Accuweather Forecast"); some weekend newscasts substitute sports for traffic. Bottom-of-the-hour updates, lasting around three minutes, usually consist of a lead national story, some local news, and a weather report. (On Monday, February 6, 2012, WGY began its affiliation with AccuWeather, severing its long-lived ties with The Weather Channel for its hourly and half-hourly weather reports.)
During Don Weeks and the WGY Morning News (weekdays 5:30-9:00 AM), this format is altered in that there are also local news updates at :20 and :50 past the hour, sports updates at :15 and :45, and "Traffic and Weather on the Eights" to go along with the normal news updates anchored by Chuck Custer and Ali Skinner. WGY carried ABC News Radio from July 1994 until August 2005, when Clear Channel Communications switched the majority of its news/talk radio stations to Fox News Radio as a boost to that network's launch. Paul Harvey would remain on WGY for an additional year though.
Another WGY weekday local show was hosted by Al Roney (9:00 AM-Noon); however, he was released and replaced by nationally syndicated talk show host Glenn Beck on February 25, 2010. Handling local talk on the weekends is WGY veteran Joe Gallagher (6:00-10:00 AM).
Three notable former WGY hosts are Mike Gallagher (who hosted afternoon drive in the mid-1990s before moving to WABC and is now part of the Salem Radio Network), Mark Williams, J. R. Gach (controversial shock jock) and Andrew Wilkow of Sirius Satellite Radio (who did part of afternoon drive and later late mornings from 2003–2006).
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