WDRE (1570
AM) is a radio station
licensed to
Riverhead, New York
Riverhead is a town in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the north shore of Long Island. Since 1727, Riverhead has been the county seat of Suffolk County, though most county offices are in Hauppauge. As of the 2020 census, the popul ...
. The station is owned and operated by
JVC Broadcasting.
History
WDRE began as
top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "To ...
WAPC on August 8, 1963, to continue the signal of
WPAC (1580 AM) to the east. It would later become WHRF as "Wharf Radio" and then the AM side of
WRCN-FM in 1974 as WRCN.
Five Towns College (2001–2024)
The station occasionally broadcast live music performances from the Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts and the other performance venues on the college campus. It also had a program called "Theatre of the Air," where students re-enacted the old days of radio through old radio dramas. The first of these events had so many on-line listeners, the station's server crashed.
The station briefly went
silent in January 2017 and resumed operations in January 2018.
References
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1963 establishments in New York (state)
Mass media in Suffolk County, New York
Radio stations established in 1963
DRE DRE may refer to:
* ''Dre'' (album), 2010 by American rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, 2010
* Dre (given name)
**Dr. Dre
Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, recor ...
Riverhead (town), New York