 It broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format, with its HD2 subchannel carrying an urban contemporary format branded as "Hot 99.1," also heard on 250-watt FM translator W256BU on 99.1 MHz.After the passage of Federal Communications Commission Docket 80–90 in 1983, several broadcasters considered putting a new FM station in the Glens Falls-Lake George region.Around 1990, WENU owner Donald Heckman successfully petitioned the FCC to grant a 25,000-watt radio station to his hometown of Queensbury.