WKIP (AM)

WKIP
City	Poughkeepsie, New York
Broadcast area	Poughkeepsie and vicinity
Branding	"NewsRadio 1450 WKIP"
Slogan	Hudson Valley's News, Traffic and Weather
Frequency	1450 kHz
First air date	June 6, 1940
Format	News/Talk
Power	1,000 watts
Class	C
Facility ID	73163
Callsign meaning	W PoughKIPsie [sic]
Affiliations	Fox News Radio
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (CC Licenses, LLC)
Website	1450wkip.com

WKIP is a talk radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York and serving the immediate Poughkeepsie area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. broadcasts on 1450 kHz at 1 kilowatt daytime and nighttime from a two tower array adjacent to its studios in the Arlington section of the Town of Poughkeepsie.^[1]

It is unique from most AM radio stations in the US as it broadcast with a directional antenna daytime, non-directional antenna night time.

History

Originally owned by Poughkeepsie Newspaper Incorporated, WKIP signed on in 1940 with 250 watts of power,^[2] the first radio station in Dutchess County since the move of WOKO in Beacon to Albany a decade earlier. Like many other "local" frequency stations the FCC approved in the period leading to and after the NARBA treaty and realignment, WKIP began its life with a full-service locally based format and from the outset had an affiliation with the NBC Blue network which later evolved into today's ABC. WKIP's involvement with ABC would last for the remainder of the 20th Century.

Like similar stations, WKIP would evolve to a local news-heavy Middle of the Road format in the 1950s, a time where WKIP also added FM coverage when they purchased the former WHVS at 104.7 MHz in 1958. Rechristened WKIP-FM, the station would see many upgrades and 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 which saw the imminent flip of ABC Radio into four sub-networks as a new beginning for the station. Affiliating with the Top 40-leaning American Contemporary Network feed, WKIP would flip at the start of 1968 to a Top 40 format. The station was not successful with its new format against competitor WHVW and that October returned to its prior MOR format. In 1970, WKIP would be sold again 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 a forerunner to adult contemporary, WKIP would rise from being last place to first place with a combination of increased local involvement and help from format changes at WHVW and WEOK that had it at or near the #1 position until the mid-1980s.

When Richard Novick purchased WKIP from Olympian in 1987, assorted changes started to take place starting with Novick allowing veteran morning host Van Risthie to leave for WHVW. This move plus the imminent decline of full-service AM formats led WKIP to go through a short-lived Fun and Games (hybrid oldies/talk) format with the station going to a talk radio format in 1989. At that time, Novick launched FM station WRNQ, which had the spirit of WKIP's former format, as well as Van Risthie. WRNQ was an automated station.

The talk radio format would last for the entire 1990s, surviving a simulcast attempt with the Novick-controlled 96.9 MHz which also sported the WKIP-FM calls. After Straus Media purchased Novick's stations in November 1996, elements of WKIP's programming began to be heard on sister stations in Ellenville, Hudson, and Catskill. WKIP and all of Straus's stations would be sold to Clear Channel Communications in June 2000 with Clear Channel taking control of the stations that October. With the ownership change came a new format, the Music of Your Life adult standards format, as part of the Hudson Valley Nostalgia Network (a simulcast, minus commercials, with WELV in Ellenville, WGHQ in Kingston, and WHUC in Hudson). The "Nostalgia Network" was dismantled in 2004 with WKIP keeping the standards format until October 2007 when the station returned to talk radio programming.

On June 10, 2008 WKIP dropped Quinn and Rose and began running controversial jock Don Imus until October 1, 2012 when he was replaced by Hudson Valley Focus Live with Tom Sipos.

WKIP's current programming includes Hudson Valley Focus Live with Tom Sipos, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, America Now with Meghan McCain and on Sunday mornings, Café Italia. Assorted local programs air during the weekend with local news and weather all week long.

References

↑ "WKIP Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "1943 Broadcasting Yearbook" (PDF). Broadcasting Publications, Inc. p. B-120.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WKIP

Radio-Locator Information on WKIP

Radio stations in the Poughkeepsie, New York market

By AM frequency	920 950 1260 1390 1450 1490

By FM frequency	88.7 (WFNP) 88.7 (WRHV) 89.7 90.9 91.3 92.1 92.9 93.3 94.3 95.1 96.1 96.9 97.7 98.9 100.1 100.7 101.5 104.7 105.5 106.3 107.3

By callsign	WAMK WBNR WBPM WBWZ WCZX WDBY WDST WEOK WFGB WFME-FM WFNP WGHQ WGNY-FM WHUD WHVW WKIP WKNY WKXP WPDH WPKF WRHV WRKI WRNQ WRRB WRWD-FM WSPK WVKR-FM plus some New York City AM radio stations

Defunct stations	WJDI

New York radio markets Albany–Schenectady–Troy Binghamton Buffalo–Niagara Falls Elmira–Corning Hudson Valley Nassau–Suffolk (Long Island) New York City Olean Plattsburgh Poughkeepsie Rochester Syracuse Utica–Rome Watertown Other New York radio regions Ithaca Jamestown–Dunkirk North Country Saratoga NYC Metro Markets Long Island Hudson Valley [partial] Poughkeepsie Middlesex-Somerset-Union Monmouth-Ocean Morristown Bridgeport Danbury New Haven Stamford-Norwalk See also List of radio stations in New York

News/Talk radio stations in the state of New York

All-News	WCBS – New York WINS – New York

News & Talk	WABC – New York WACK – Newark WATN – Watertown WAUB – Auburn WBEN – Buffalo WECK – Cheektowaga WENI – Corning WENY – Elmira WFLR – Dundee WGDJ – Rensselaer WGVA – Geneva WGY – Schenectady WGY-FM – Albany WHAM – Rochester WHCU – Ithaca WIBX – Utica WJIP – Ellenville WJJF – Montauk WKAL – Rome WKIP – Poughkeepsie WLEA – Hornell WLVL – Lockport WNBF – Binghamton WNYY – Ithaca WOR – New York WRCN – Riverhead WSYR – Syracuse WSYR-FM – Solvay WXXI – Rochester

Defunct	WUTI – Utica

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia

Radio networks	Fox News Radio Fox Sports Radio NBC News Radio Premiere Networks Premium Choice Total Traffic and Weather Network

Miscellaneous	Clear Channel Outdoor Clear Channel UK iHeartRadio List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia Mediabase Radio Computing Services

Coordinates: 41°42′18″N 73°53′16″W / 41.70500°N 73.88778°W / 41.70500; -73.88778

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