Station History
104.1FM located in the far corner of western New York State originally signed on in 1954 as WWOL, from Lackawanna, New York. Its transmitter is located on Dorrance Avenue near Abbott Road on the border between West Seneca and Lackawanna. The station also held the calls WWOR and WACJ. It would change call signs to WNYS in 1982. During the WNYS years, the station employed future progressive talker Stephanie Miller.
The station changed formats and call letters in the autumn of 1986 switching to classic hits with the moniker "Classic Hits 104.1 WHTT". The station was one of the first to take the "classic hits" moniker in the United States, and did so due to the lack of a classic rock station in Buffalo after WRLT switched to adult contemporary music. In May 1989, after WRLT went back to classic rock as WGRF, WHTT became an oldies music outlet playing hits from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s with the on air branding "Oldies 104".
In the late 1980s, the call letters and format were also heard on sister AM station 1120AM WHTT (now brokered Spanish language WBBF).
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