| Simulcast ofWKIP,Poughkeepsie | |
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| Broadcast area | Southeastern Catskill Mountains |
| Frequency | 1370kHz |
| Branding | News Radio 1450/1370 WKIP |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/talk |
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| History | |
First air date | 1964; 61 years ago (1964) (as WELV) |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 63528 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 5,000 watts day |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°44′19.3″N74°23′46.6″W / 41.738694°N 74.396278°W /41.738694; -74.396278 |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | 1450wkip |
WJIP (1370AM) is a radio station broadcasting anews/talkradio format. The station is owned byiHeartMedia, through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC, and islicensed toEllenville, New York, United States. The station broadcasts with a power of 5,000 watts,daytime only, from a single tower located off Irish Cape Road in the hamlet ofNapanoch.[2]
The stationsimulcasts the programming ofWKIP in nearbyPoughkeepsie. Weekdays begin with a local morning show,Hudson Valley Focus Live with Tom Sipos. The rest of the day featuresnationally syndicated shows, mostly from co-ownedPremiere Networks, includingRush Limbaugh,Sean Hannity,Glenn Beck,Mark Levin andThis Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. Weekends feature shows fromKim Komando,Joe Pags,Gary Sullivan,Leo Laporte,Ric Edelman,Bill Handel andThe Jesus Christ Show. Some weekend hours are paidbrokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news fromFox News Radio.
The station was known as WELV for 40 years. WELV first went on the air in 1964 with afull service format featuring a variety of local programming. The format was a broad based free-flowingmiddle of the road music format leaningadult contemporary.
In 1975, Robin Cohen became the first female DJ at WELV. Using her on-air name Julie Russell (after a character from daytime TV dramaDays of Our Lives) she hosted her weekend show Friday to Sunday until moving to California in 1976. As Raven West, she publishedRed Wine For Breakfast,[3] a novel centered around her radio experiences.
Itssister station 99.3 (nowWRWB-FM) shared the WELV call letters from 1970 to 1981 and 1984 to 1989. In the early part of 1985, WELV and WELV-FM were sold to Straus Communications and flipped to anadult standards format mixing in limited amounts of soft rock and baby boomer pop hits. Initially, thesyndicated "Unforgettable" format was aired. By 1986, standards format was programmed in-house. 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, andWHUC. 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's facilities in theArlington section ofPoughkeepsie in 1997.
The station changed itscall sign to WRWD, on November 11, 2004, to simulcast itscountry music sister station, 107.3WRWD-FM. On December 4, 2006, the station changed its call letters to WELG.[4] By 2006, the station's original call letters were no longer available, as they were in use by Ellenville Central School District'sWELV-LP.
In November 2009,[5] 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 asWKIP-FM.
On March 8, 2012, WRWD changed its format to news/talk, simulcastingWKIP 1450 AM in Poughkeepsie.[6] The call letters were switched to WJIP the next day (March 9).