WRWD at 99.3 Is Now "News/Talk 99.3"

[disney fanatic]

According to Scott Fybush this week that WRWC has dropped it's simulcast from country WRWD at 107.3 to make a flip to a talk station. That's a great move from the people at the CC Joker switchboard. Now that the "Solid Gold Jukebox" is over, Rick McCaffery is gone, now they flipped to a WKIP simulcast on 99.3 and BOOM! There you go! I have never heard a talk station in the Hudson Valley on an FM dial before, and this is first Hudson Valley talk station on an FM dial where they carry Don Imus, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Curtis Sliwa all on FM.

They did the same thing with KIRO in Seattle when they dropped oldies to a news/talk station at 97.3. That was a year. Here we go again! I hope the call letters will be WKIP-FM since it hasn't been on 104.7 since the 60's when it was Top 40 under Tom Shovan before it went to rock in the 70's as WSPK and then back to Top 40 as "K104" back in the early 80's.

I hope the talk station at 99.3 would do a lot better than WKIP on the AM side due to interference issues. WGHQ hasn't been a talk station since Pamal took over back in February 2007 when it was standards & oldies, but it is a talk station with over 10 hours of Cheap Channel's Fox Sports Radio on these three stations like WGHQ, WBNR and WLNA all carried the brand "Hudson Valley Talk Radio".

Are they going to compete with these two talk stations which is FM Vs. AM? Stay tuned! 

[disney fanatic]

In addition to that as of yesterday, I checked through my Time Warner Cable on channel 597, it shows WRWD, and instead of country music, guess what they played, nothing but news/talk and that's why they dropped it's simulcast from WRWD, but it's on 99.3 on channel 597. Let's hope if WRWD ends up at 107.3, it should not be on 99.3 anymore.

And by the way, the voiceover announcer for this station on "News/Talk 99.3" is none other than Ziggy, the voiceover guy who does the liners on CBS-FM and WKLI's "Magic 100.9" and formerly of WBPM's "Cool 92.9".

I just want to say one thing about channel 597 on my cable box from Time Warner Cable, please put on 107.3 and put country back to normal, it should not be on 99.3 anymore. Thank you!   

[MHVRadiofan]

I thought 1370 WELG , Ellenville  was a simulcast of  talk radio WKIP. A check of the FCC data base shows 1370 has already changed  their call letters to WKIP-FM from WRWC and  1370 WELG has switched back to WRWD -AM that they had a 3 years  ago when they    simulcast WRWD. So presumably they put country music on AM and talk on 99.3 FM. Granted 99.3 has a much larger coverage area especially at night , since WELG is basically a daytimer , this seems counter intuitive . WKIP actually tried this back in the when 1991  they took over 96.9 Poughkeepsie from the defunct, short lived WNXT , calling it WKIP-FM,  a simulcast of WKIP’s previous talk format .  True there was tremendous overlap It added little to their ratings and in just 2 years 96.9 was a simulcast  of WDST(WDSP)before it finally was successful as WRRB.

 

[Beavis]

Also noticed on rt 9 in wappingers 99.3 WKIP fm has a translator at 105.7 although im not sure where its coming from?

[MHVRadiofan]

Also noticed on rt 9 in wappingers 99.3 WKIP fm has a translator at 105.7 although im not sure where its coming from?

That apparently is DIGITAL RADIO Broadcasting’s W289BE  Middletown . That is the closest translator on 105.7 to Wappingers that I found in the FCC data base . The Radio Locater http://radio-locator.com/ web site lists it as retransmitting WKIP-FM Ellenville . However , Obviously Wappengers is way beyond their expected  service area, but these things sometimes happen.

[disney fanatic]

The other day, I tuned to channel 597 on my Time Warner Cable and guess what? WRWD is back on the air after a few days of dumping it's 99.3 simulcast to "News/Talk 99.3" for a few days. I hope the Time Warner Cable people will not be putting on WRWD at 99.3 anymore, it belongs to 107.3. Thank you TWC for this correction.

[disney fanatic]

There is another one in this week's NERW from Scott Fybush that WRWD moved its country format back to 1370 AM for the first time in three years after the former WELG when it was originally adult standards and then talk until it moved to 99.3 last week under the call letters WKIP-FM. I hope WRWD would do better on AM for now, but it will sound a lot like the old WHN when it was a country station in New York City at 1050 AM back in the 70's and 80's. 

[Robert Rodriguez]

   I think that the new 105.7 translator must be closer to Poughkeepsie.  It's putting a solid signal into POK. route 9 area with WKIP-FM.
I thought that the Middletown translator W289BE used to relay WCBS-FM, but I was never able to pick up that one in Poughkeepsie, instead getting DX signals in Endicott and Boston area (WROR).  Now I have no chance of getting those.  Was there a new translator call assigned in Poughkeepsie recently?

[THE_KNICKMAN]

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