WRHV (88.7 FM) is a

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-formatted

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licensed to

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and serving the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York state. The station is owned by WMHT Educational Telecommunications and is a satellite of

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WMHT-FM WMHT-FM (89.1 Hertz, MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Schenectady, and serving the Capital District, New York, Capital District of New York (state), New York. It has a classical music radio ...

. WRHV transmits from the main

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tower in the town of

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. WRHV, which signed on in November

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as WMHX-FM (sharing the calls of WMHT's secondary television station for the first year of its existence), is involved in one of the few remaining timeshare arrangements on radio in the United States. The 88.7 frequency is shared between WRHV and

SUNY New Paltz The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an a ...

-owned

WFNP WFNP (88.7 MHz FM) is a college radio station licensed to Rosendale, New York. The station, which is run by students at State University of New York at New Paltz, broadcasts at 6 kilowatts ERP from a tower on Illinois Mountain in nearby Lloyd, ...

. Currently, WRHV is on the air at the following times from September 1 to December 1, and February 1 to May 1: * Weekdays: 5:00 a.m-7:00 p.m. * Saturdays: 5:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. * Sundays: 5:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. When SUNY New Paltz is either not in session, in exams, or in start-of-semester preparation, WRHV is heard around the clock. Nevertheless, the timeshare arrangement has had its critics on both sides and as a result WFNP-FM has proposed a move to 98.9 MHz where its programming would be heard full-time with WRHV becoming the sole occupant of the 88.7 MHz frequency.

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