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WDBY (105.5 FM, "Kicks 105-5") is an American country music radio station licensed to Patterson, New York. The station primarily serves the Greater Danbury listening area. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts from a tower located in Patterson, NY near the Putnam/Dutchess county line. WDBY also operates a booster, WDBY-FM1 in Brookfield, Connecticut, which broadcasts with 1.2 kilowatts. Though it's the only FM station in Putnam County, WDBY's primary target market is Danbury, Connecticut. Even though the hills in and around Danbury limits the main 105.5 signal, the Danbury booster has the ability to cover the primary coverage area. WDBY also targets eastern Putnam County as well as southern Dutchess County, where it regularly rates in the Poughkeepsie market. Due to its tower height, WDBY's signal covers most of the RT-22/I-684 corridor. The WDBY studios are located at 1004 Federal Road in Brookfield, CT 06804. ==Early history and Majic 105== The 105.5 frequency first signed on (as a Docket 80-90 station) in the spring of 1981 in Patterson, NY as WRVH, airing a beautiful music/classical music hybrid format in competition with WHUD and WEZN. Richard Novick(also former owner of WKIP-AM/WRNQ-FM 92.1 Poughkeepsie) was WRVH's first owner/operator. The station's building was constructed with the beautiful music format in mind as all three studios (Production, FM & AM) had very high ceilings. The production studio's ceiling was also acoustic and at one time chamber music was both played and recorded there. In later years, the large room also doubled as a jock lounge. WRVH was an early success in Putnam County and got better-than-expected numbers in both Dutchess County and Danbury, CT because for many listeners it was one of the few well-signaled stations in the area. In the mid-1980s, beautiful music began to decline. Listeners were aging out of the format and stations were playing more vocals. Dick Novick then sold WRVH to Ron Graiff and that led the station to switch to Adult Contemporary and become WMJV ''(MAJIC 105)'' on July 21, 1986. The call letters stood for Majic (MJ) and the Roman numeral for 5 (V). The station's new main competitor was then Contemporary-formatted WVIP-FM and later WHUD and WDAQ. 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 Joe Thomas), Hank Tuttle and Jim Hartman (nights), John Harrison, Cutler Whitman and Langdon Towne (overnights) and weekenders Joe Rondini, JJ, Jed Taylor and Rob Deldin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WDBY」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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