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WKIP
WKIP (1450 AM) is a commercial talk radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and broadcasts at 1,000 watts by day and 910 watts at night from a single tower adjacent to its studios in the Arlington section of the Town of Poughkeepsie. It uses a non-directional antenna at all times. Programming is also heard on FM translator W253BV at 98.5 MHz and on WJIP (1370 AM) in Ellenville, New York.
Most of the schedule features nationally syndicated programs, largely from co-owned Premiere Networks. Weekdays begin with Your Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno. He's followed by The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. Weekends feature specialty programs including The Kim Komando Show, At Home with Gary Sullivan, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Rich DeMuro on Tech, Bill Handel on the Law, Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell and The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra. Some weekend hours are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio.
To supplement coverage, WKIP programming is also heard on an FM translator station on 98.5 MHz.
Originally owned by Poughkeepsie Newspaper Incorporated, WKIP signed on the air on June 5, 1940 as the first radio station in the area. It had 250 watts of power on 1420 kilocycles. It was the first radio station in Dutchess County since the move of WOKO from Beacon to Albany a decade earlier. Like many other "local" frequency stations, the Federal Communications Commission had it move to a new frequency in 1941, after the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) treaty took effect. The new frequency was 1450 kHz.
WKIP began as an NBC Blue Network affiliate, carrying its schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts during the Golden Age of Radio. In 1945, the Blue Network became today's ABC Radio Network. WKIP's involvement with ABC would last for the remainder of the 20th Century.
With the shift of network programming from radio to TV, WKIP evolved into a full service Middle of the Road and news format in the 1950s. WKIP gained a sister station when it purchased the former WHVS at 104.7 MHz in 1958. Rechristened WKIP-FM, the station was sold a decade later and is now WSPK.
WKIP maintained its original format and ownership until late 1967 when the station was sold to Star Broadcasting. Star changed the format the next year to Top 40. Around the same time, the ABC Radio Network switched to four sub-networks. WKIP signed up with the Top 40-leaning American Contemporary Network feed. The station was not successful with its new format against competitor 950 WHVW and that October returned to its prior MOR format.
In 1970, WKIP was sold again, this time to Olympian Broadcasting (to whom Star had sold WKIP-FM to two years earlier and who would resell that station to WBNR owner Lance Broadcasting). Modifying the format to full service adult contemporary, WKIP rose from being in last place to first place with a combination of increased local involvement and help from format changes at WHVW and WEOK. This continued until the mid-1980s.
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WKIP
WKIP (1450 AM) is a commercial talk radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and broadcasts at 1,000 watts by day and 910 watts at night from a single tower adjacent to its studios in the Arlington section of the Town of Poughkeepsie. It uses a non-directional antenna at all times. Programming is also heard on FM translator W253BV at 98.5 MHz and on WJIP (1370 AM) in Ellenville, New York.
Most of the schedule features nationally syndicated programs, largely from co-owned Premiere Networks. Weekdays begin with Your Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno. He's followed by The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. Weekends feature specialty programs including The Kim Komando Show, At Home with Gary Sullivan, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Rich DeMuro on Tech, Bill Handel on the Law, Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell and The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra. Some weekend hours are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio.
To supplement coverage, WKIP programming is also heard on an FM translator station on 98.5 MHz.
Originally owned by Poughkeepsie Newspaper Incorporated, WKIP signed on the air on June 5, 1940 as the first radio station in the area. It had 250 watts of power on 1420 kilocycles. It was the first radio station in Dutchess County since the move of WOKO from Beacon to Albany a decade earlier. Like many other "local" frequency stations, the Federal Communications Commission had it move to a new frequency in 1941, after the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) treaty took effect. The new frequency was 1450 kHz.
WKIP began as an NBC Blue Network affiliate, carrying its schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts during the Golden Age of Radio. In 1945, the Blue Network became today's ABC Radio Network. WKIP's involvement with ABC would last for the remainder of the 20th Century.
With the shift of network programming from radio to TV, WKIP evolved into a full service Middle of the Road and news format in the 1950s. WKIP gained a sister station when it purchased the former WHVS at 104.7 MHz in 1958. Rechristened WKIP-FM, the station was sold a decade later and is now WSPK.
WKIP maintained its original format and ownership until late 1967 when the station was sold to Star Broadcasting. Star changed the format the next year to Top 40. Around the same time, the ABC Radio Network switched to four sub-networks. WKIP signed up with the Top 40-leaning American Contemporary Network feed. The station was not successful with its new format against competitor 950 WHVW and that October returned to its prior MOR format.
In 1970, WKIP was sold again, this time to Olympian Broadcasting (to whom Star had sold WKIP-FM to two years earlier and who would resell that station to WBNR owner Lance Broadcasting). Modifying the format to full service adult contemporary, WKIP rose from being in last place to first place with a combination of increased local involvement and help from format changes at WHVW and WEOK. This continued until the mid-1980s.