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WSPK
WSPK (104.7 FM, "K104.7") is a contemporary hit radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York. Its studios are located on NY 52 Business in the town of Fishkill (with a Beacon address). It is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and transmits from a tower atop Beacon Mountain in Fishkill. WSPK's main coverage area is centered on the Mid-Hudson Valley, with secondary targeting into the eastern Catskills; Northern Westchester County; the Danbury, Connecticut, area; Sussex County, New Jersey; and Pike County, Pennsylvania. For many years, the station's top-of-hour ID mentioned its coverage of parts of five states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts) and "an itty-bitty piece of Vermont". WSPK reaches the Bronx and, until the launch of stations at adjacent frequencies in the early 1990s, Albany as well. In recent years illegal pirate broadcasters have begun broadcasting on 104.7 in the Bronx and Brooklyn which interfere with K-104's signal in Southern West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXPK
WXPK (107.1 MHz), branded ''107.1 The Peak'', is a commercial radio station licensed to Briarcliff Manor, New York, and serving Westchester County, New York. It is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts an Adult Album Alternative (AAA) radio format. The station's studios are in White Plains and its transmitter is off the Sprain Brook Parkway at the Westchester County Correctional Facility in Valhalla. History On April 8, 1960, WRNW got its start at 454 Main Street in Mount Kisco playing a mixture of light classical music and easy listening songs. It began broadcasting in FM stereo in 1964. Founder and broadcast engineer Richard Burden was instrumental in the development of FM stereo broadcasting. By 1967, the station had moved to the second floor at 78 Lexington Avenue, and in June of that year, program director Don Bayley adopted an album rock format making WRNW one of the first FM stations in the New York City area to play rock music full time. (New York's WOR-FM w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBNR
WLNA (1260 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Beacon, New York, and serving the Hudson Valley. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and calls itself "The Beacon." It simulcasts a conservative talk radio format with sister stations WLNA 1460 AM in Peekskill, New York, Peekskill and WGHQ 920 AM in Kingston, New York, Kingston. The studios are on New York State Route 52 in Beacon. WBNR is powered at 1,000 watts by day and 400 watts at night. It has a directional antenna using a two-tower array at 475 South Avenue in the city of Beacon. Programming is also hear on 100-watt FM translator W243EM at 96.5 Hertz, MHz. Programming Weekdays on "The Beacon" (WBNR, WLNA and WGHQ) begin with a local news and interview show, ''Hudson Valley Focus with Tom Sipos''. The rest of the day, radio syndication, nationally syndicated programs are heard: Brian Kilmeade, Dan Bongino, Charlie Kirk (activist), Charlie Kirk, Joe Pags, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBPM
WBPM (92.9 FM) is a classic hits radio station licensed to Saugerties, New York, serving the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskills. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts at 6,000 watts ERP from a tower in the Town of Kingston, New York, while its studios are in Beacon. The WBPM calls were previously on 94.3 MHz from 1975 to 2003, that station is today known as WKXP. History The allocation for 92.9 MHz in Saugerties, New York, was added to the FCC's Table of Allotments in June 1998. The allotment was applied for and won by then- WRNQ/ WKIP/ WTND owner Eric Straus. In its preparation to reach the air, its tower site changed from WDST's original tower in Lake Katrine to a defunct AT&T microwave relay tower site in the Town of Kingston, given that a feasibility study showed that from the former very little signal would reach the main target market of Poughkeepsie. On September 15, 1999, the allotment was assigned the call letters WRKW, signed on for test ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poughkeepsie, New York
Poughkeepsie ( ) is a city within the Poughkeepsie (town), New York, Town of Poughkeepsie, New York (state), New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson Valley, Hudson River Valley region, midway between the core of the New York metropolitan area and the state capital of Albany, New York, Albany. It is a principal city of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area, Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area which belongs to the New York combined statistical area. It is served by the nearby Hudson Valley Regional Airport and Stewart International Airport in Orange County, New York. Poughkeepsie has been called "The Queen City of the Hudson". Originally part of New Netherland, it was settled in the 17th century by the Dutch and became New York State's second capital shortly after the American Revolution. It was chartered as a city in 1854. Major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sussex County, New Jersey
Sussex County () is the northernmost county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its county seat is Newton.New Jersey County Map . Accessed July 10, 2017. It is part of the and is part of New Jersey's Skylands Region. As of the 2020 census, the county was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKIP (AM)
WKIP (1450 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and broadcasts at 1,000 watts from a two-tower array adjacent to its studios in the Arlington section of the Town of Poughkeepsie. During daytime hours it uses a directional antenna, and changes to a non-directional antenna at night. An unusual switch from standard practice where many AM stations are non-directional by day and directional at night. Programming is also heard on FM translator W253BV at 98.5 MHz and on WJIP 1370 AM in Ellenville, New York. Weekdays begin with a local morning show, "Hudson Valley Focus Live with Tom Sipos." The rest of the day features nationally syndicated programs, mostly from co-owned Premiere Networks, including Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Clay Travis & Buck Sexton, Jesse Kelly, ''Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' and '' This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal''. Weekends feature specialty progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOPG (AM)
WOPG (1460 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Albany, New York, and serving the Capital District. It is owned by Pax et Bonum, Inc. (Peace and Goodness in Latin) and has a Christian radio format aimed at Roman Catholic listeners, with much of its programming coming from the EWTN Radio network. WOPG simulcasts with WOPG-FM (89.9) in Esperance, New York. WOPG operates with 5,000 watts of power non-directional by day, and employs a directional antenna at night to protect other stations on AM 1460. The transmitter site is on Kenwood Avenue in Delmar, New York. History According to FCC records, WOPG only dates back to October 21, 1947, when it was authorized, as WOKO, to replace an earlier WOKO whose license had been revoked. However, the 1947 authorization inherited its predecessor's call letters, as well as its frequency. For these reasons, it is almost universally recognized as a direct continuation of the original WOKO, which dated to 1924. This makes WOPG the oldest st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLNA
WLNA (1420 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Peekskill, New York, and serving the Hudson Valley. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and calls itself "The Beacon." It simulcasts a conservative talk radio format with sister stations WBNR 1260 AM in Beacon, New York, Beacon and WGHQ 920 AM in Kingston, New York, Kingston. The studios are on New York State Route 52 in Beacon. WLNA is powered at 5,000 watts by day and 1,000 watts at night. To protect other stations on 1420 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a five-tower array. The transmitter is just north of Peekskill in the Town of Cortlandt, New York. (The day and night patterns use two different arrays of three towers, with only one tower shared by both arrays.) Programming is also heard on one-watt FM translator W232DQ at 94.3 Hertz, MHz. Programming Weekdays on "The Beacon" (WLNA, WBNR and WGHQ) begin with a local news and intervie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHUD
WHUD (100.7 FM) is an adult contemporary music radio station licensed to Peekskill, New York, United States. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts at 50,000 watts ERP. Its transmitter facility is located in Philipstown, New York. WHUD's studios are located on Route 52 in Beacon, New York, along with other Hudson Valley Pamal stations. WHUD is responsible for the activation of the Hudson Valley area Emergency Alert System. History In early 1957, Highland Broadcasting, owner of WLNA, began petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to grant a class B FM allocation to the City of Peekskill, New York. In the petition, Highland noted that there were no class B FM allotments between Poughkeepsie and New York City, that the far flung northern suburbs were rather heavily populated, not all of the area was covered by FM signals, and it was culturally unique from New York City. Initially, it was thought that 106.7 MHz would fit in with the stations al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGHQ
WGHQ (920 kHz) is a commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station City of license, licensed to Kingston, New York, and serving the Hudson Valley. WGHQ is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and it simulcasts a conservative talk radio format known as "The Beacon" with sister stations WLNA 1420 Peekskill, New York, Peekskill and WBNR 1260 Beacon, New York, Beacon. The studios are on New York State Route 52 in Beacon. By day, WGHQ is powered at 1,000 watts. But at night, to protect other stations on 920 AM from interference, power is reduced to 38 watts. It broadcasts a omnidirectional antenna, non-directional signal from a single radio masts and towers, tower located south of Port Ewen, New York. WGHQ also broadcasts on FM translator W223CR Port Ewen, at 92.5 Hertz, MHz. Programming Weekdays on "The Beacon" (WGHQ, WBNR and WLNA) begin with a local news and interview show, ''Hudson Valley Focus with Tom Sipos''. The rest of the day, radio syndication, nationally syndicated programs are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamal Broadcasting
Pamal Broadcasting, Ltd. is a family-owned radio group with twenty-three stations in medium-to-small markets in the Northeast. Based in the Albany suburb of Latham, New York, Pamal Broadcasting was founded in 1987 as Albany Broadcasting Company, when business man James J. Morrell entered broadcast ownership with the purchase of WFLY and WPTR from Five States Tower Company, a Poughkeepsie, New York–based broadcasting company that also owned radio stations WPDH and WEOK in the mid-Hudson valley. The Pamal name, a portmanteau of the names of Morrell's children, was adopted in 1996 though each cluster uses a unique name (such as Albany Broadcasting for the Albany cluster; the Pamal name is rarely used on-air, except in the Hudson Valley). In 2005, Pamal Broadcasting was the 27th-largest owner of radio stations in the United States. By mid-2011, the company has divested itself of 40% of its radio station licenses from its 2005 high-water mark. Pamal completed its exit from Florid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to List of classical and art music traditions, non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and Harmony, harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century, it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated music notation, notational system, as well as accompanying literature in music analysis, analytical, music criticism, critical, Music history, historiographical, musicology, musicological and Philosophy of music, philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
