WJIP (1370 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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. The station is owned by

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, through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC, and is

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, United States. The station broadcasts with a power of 5,000

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s, daytime only, from a single tower located off Irish Cape Road in the hamlet of

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. The station

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s the programming of AM 1450

WKIP 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 Poughkeep ...

in nearby

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. Weekdays begin with a local morning show, ''Hudson Valley Focus Live with Tom Sipos''. The rest of the day features

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shows, mostly from co-owned

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, including

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and ''

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''. Weekends feature shows from

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, Gary Sullivan,

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and ''

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''. Some weekend hours are paid

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. Most hours begin with world and national news from

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History

The station was known as WELV for 40 years. WELV first went on the air in 1964 with a

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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

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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

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99.3 (now

WRWB-FM WRWB-FM (99.3 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station licensed to Ellenville, New York, and serving an area including much of the Hudson Valley and the eastern parts of the Catskills. WRWB-FM is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and broadcasts with 115 watts ef ...

) 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,

, 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

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section of

in 1997. The station changed its

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to WRWD, on November 11, 2004, to simulcast its

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sister station, 107.3

WRWD-FM WRWD-FM (107.3 Hertz, MHz, "Country 107.3") is a country music radio station licensed to Highland, Ulster County, New York, Highland, New York, and primarily serving the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. The station broadcasts at 330 watts effective ...

. 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

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 ''

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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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