WJIP (1370
AM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting a
news/talk
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radio format
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. The station is owned by
iHeartMedia
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, through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC, and is
licensed to
Ellenville, New York, United States. The station broadcasts with a power of 5,000
watt
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s,
daytime only, from a single tower located off Irish Cape Road in the hamlet of
Napanoch.
The station
simulcast
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s the programming of
AM 1450 WKIP in nearby
Poughkeepsie
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. Weekdays begin with a local morning show, ''Hudson Valley Focus Live with Tom Sipos''. The rest of the day features
nationally syndicated shows, mostly from co-owned
Premiere Networks
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, including
Rush Limbaugh
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,
Sean Hannity
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,
Glenn Beck
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,
Mark Levin
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and ''
This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal
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''. Weekends feature shows from
Kim Komando
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,
Joe Pags
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Biography
Born in Amityville, New York, Pagliarulo later lived in nearby C ...
,
Gary Sullivan,
Leo Laporte
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,
Ric Edelman
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,
Bill Handel and ''
The Jesus Christ Show
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''. Some weekend hours are paid
brokered programming
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. Most hours begin with world and national news from
Fox News Radio
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History
In 2003, ...
.
History
The station was known as WELV for 40 years. WELV first went on the air in 1964 with a
full service format featuring a variety of local programming. The format was a broad based free-flowing
Middle Of The Road music format leaning adult contemporary. In the early part of 1985, WELV and its FM station were sold to Straus Communications and flipped to an
Adult Standards
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Adult standards started in the 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly tho ...
format mixing in limited amounts of soft rock and baby boomer pop hits. Initially, the
syndicated "Unforgettable" format was aired. By 1986, standards format was programmed in-house. Its
sister station
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99.3 (now
WRWB-FM
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) shared the WELV call letters from 1970 to 1981 and 1984–1989. In 1991, WELV flipped to a news/talk format with mostly syndicated programming.
Bob Mangels was the morning host for several decades, through the late 1990s. In the late 1990s, Mangels hosted "The Breakfast Club," with Ken Gonyea, which aired on Straus Media's four AM stations: WELV,
WKIP,
WCKL, and
WHUC
WHUC (1230 AM) is a radio station simulcasting the country music format of WRWD-FM (107.3). Licensed to Hudson, New York. The station is owned by iHeartMedia (as iHM Licenses, LLC). WHUC's studios are in Arlington, New York, and its transmitte ...
. By 1999, Mike Winters hosted this quad cast morning show. The quad cast continued until 2002, when the AM programming was broken up into several different formats.
Studios were originally on Canal Street in Ellenville, above Matthews Pharmacy, and in the early 1980s, moved to 22 N. Main Street, where they remained until moving to Straus Media (now Clear Channel) facilities in the
Arlington section of
Poughkeepsie
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in 1997.
The station changed its
call sign
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to WRWD, on November 11, 2004, to simulcast its
country music
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sister station, 107.3
WRWD-FM
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. On December 4, 2006, the station changed its call letters to WELG. By 2006, the station's original call letters were no longer available, as they were in use by Ellenville Central School District's
WELV-LP.
In November 2009, the station and FM sister 99.3 swapped formats: 1370 AM reverted to WRWD, carrying a country format, while the news/talk format went to 99.3 FM as
WKIP-FM.
On March 8, 2012, WRWD changed its format to news/talk, simulcasting
WKIP 1450 AM in Poughkeepsie. The call letters were switched to WJIP the next day (March 9).
In 1975, Robin Cohen became the first female DJ at WELV. Using her on-air name Julie Russell (after a character from daytime TV drama ''
Days of Our Lives
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'') she hosted her weekend show Friday to Sunday until moving to California in 1976. As Raven West, she published ''Red Wine For Breakfast,''
a novel centered around her radio experiences.
References
External links
WJIP website
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