Hot 99.1

Upon WQSH's move into the Albany market in 2006, the station was licensed for HD Radio operations. WQSH currently operates one HD sub-channel, WQSH-HD2, which is also carried on translator W256BU, located at 99.1 FM. The translator signed on March 6, 2012, by stunting first with construction sounds, then with protest songs as "Occupy 99.1". On March 9, at Midnight, the translator debuted a soft rock format, branded as "Sunny 99.1" (the launch was promoted with a Facebook page). However, that turned out to also be a stunt; later that day, at 3 PM, the station adopted its present urban contemporary format as "Hot 99.1."