WHUD

WHUD

City	Peekskill, New York
Broadcast area	Hudson Valley, New York City area
Branding	100.7 WHUD
Slogan	"Westchester & The Valley's Music Station" (Primary) "One Great Song After Another" (Secondary)
Frequency	100.7 MHz
First air date	October 24, 1958 (as WLNA-FM)
Format	Adult Contemporary
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	152 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	54854
Transmitter coordinates	41°20′17.69″N 73°53′38.0898″W / 41.3382472°N 73.893913833°W / 41.3382472; -73.893913833
Callsign meaning	W HUDson
Former callsigns	WLNA-FM (1958–1971)
Affiliations	CNN Radio
Owner	Pamal Broadcasting (6 Johnson Road Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	WBNR, WBPM, WGHQ, WLNA, WSPK, WXPK
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	whud.com

WHUD (100.7 WHUD) is an Adult Contemporary radio station licensed to Peekskill, New York. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts on 100.7 MHz at 50 kW ERP from a tower site in Philipstown, New York, and has studios at 715 Rt.52 in Beacon, New York.^[1]

History

In early 1957, Highland Broadcasting, owner of WLNA, began petitioning the Federal Communications Commission^[2] to grant a class B FM allocation to the City of Peekskill, New York. In the petition, Highland noted that there were no class B FM allotments between Poughkeepsie and N.Y. City, that the far flung northern suburbs were rather heavily populated, not all of the area was covered by FM signals, and it was culturally unique from N.Y. City.

Initially, it was thought that 106.7 MHz would fit in with the stations already licensed to N.Y. City. However, by March 1957 that frequency had already been applied for by the Riverside Church in N.Y. City. After some frequency shuffling between the cities of New Haven, Connecticut and Waterbury, Connecticut, 100.7 MHz was allotted to Peekskill, New York on May 24, 1957.^[3]

WLNA-FM signed on for the first time on October 24, 1958 as the second FM station between N.Y. City and Albany, New York. The format was a 100% simulcast of WLNA.^[4] During this time, the FM station's main source of revenue was a Muzak Subcarrier.^[5]

The first major changes to the station occurred in late 1971. On October 14, 1971, the call sign was changed to WHUD.^[6] In December 1971, WHUD increased its power from 20 KW to 50 KW ERP.^[7] In February 1972, the simulcast with WLNA ended, WHUD began broadcasting in Stereo, and launched a Beautiful music format.

The Bonneville format consisted largely of instrumental covers of pop songs with some vocal standards. Some Adult Contemporary artists were mixed into the music rotation with one vocal track per 15 minutes under the work of Program Director (and morning personality) Joe O'Brien. Prior to his work at WHUD, O'Brien was one of the WMCA Good Guys and had been doing mornings on the N.Y. City station since the early 60s.

During this early period, WHUD branded its format as Music From the Terrace, a term named for the location of WHUD's studios on Radio Terrace, (41°18′46.04″N 73°54′58.2552″W / 41.3127889°N 73.916182000°W / 41.3127889; -73.916182000) a public street in the town of Cortlandt, New York.

In 1982, Highland Broadcasting sold WHUD and WLNA to Radio Terrace, Inc. The format remained unchanged, however, more resources were diverted away from WLNA in favor of WHUD as AM radio began to decline.

In 1986, Joe O'Brien retired and was replaced by longtime N.Y. City radio personality Ed Baer. Baer spent a total of 18 years broadcasting in the New York market, also as one of the WMCA good guys then on country station WHN and later on WYNY^[8] He stayed in the morning show position until he retired for the second time in 2000. Ed Baer was replaced by longtime news director Mike Bennett who got his start at Hudson Valley radio station WHVW in the early 1970s.

1986 was also the year that WHUD began to equal out the vocal/instrumental ratio to the point that by early 1990 it was an even split. However, the declining demographics and audience of the beautiful music format led WHUD to eliminate instrumental covers with little fanfare, evolving into a Soft Adult Contemporary format. Throughout the first half of the 1990s, WHUD would continue evolving to a wide play list Adult Contemporary format.

In 1997, WHUD was sold to Albany, New York based Pamal Broadcasting. The studios were moved from Radio Terrace to the newly reconstructed "Broadcast Center" on NY Route 52, in the town of Fishkill, New York.

Programming

After the ownership transfer, Pamal altered the format with a slight recurrent lean to the play list and the addition of the Delilah show in evening time slot in spite of the same program being cleared on the Poughkeepsie-based WRNQ. This geographic loophole also led to the stations sharing a jingle package for several years. Regardless, WHUD dropped Delilah in September 2006 and replaced her with a live and local evening program called Night Rhythms hosted by Catherine Michaels (the program would resurface on WLTW two months later and continues to air there although in a localized format).

Indian Point warning Siren at WHUD transmitter site

WHUD is one of the few stations in the Hudson Valley (along with co-owned WSPK) that is live 24/7. This allows the station to maintain a local programming element including breaking news, traffic and weather updates that voice tracked/automated station cannot. WHUD serves as the primary (LP-1) Emergency Alert System (EAS) station for Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, and Orange Counties.^[9] As such it is the first media outlet in the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant public warning system.^[10] Prior to the studio move to Fishkill, New York these duties fell to WABC (AM) in N.Y. City because WHUD's studio was located within the 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone around the Indian Point Energy Center.^[11] In July 2007 Pamal spent approximately $500,000 to upgrade WHUD's transmitter site and add redundancies to its technical facility to ensure that the station could meet its public warning responsibilities.^[12]

WHUD's signal reaches most of the Hudson Valley and the suburbs of N.Y. City with a usable signal in much of the Five Boroughs (especially in the Bronx). In total, WHUD's signal reaches parts of five states.^[13] The primary target market of WHUD is that of Westchester and Rockland Counties plus the Mid-Hudson Valley. In all of these areas, WHUD is at or near the top of the ratings even with more localized competition in those markets and is by far the highest rated Westchester County station in Arbitron's N.Y. City book.

References

↑ "WHUD Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ Federal Communications Commission Docket Number 12032, April 23, 1957
↑ Notice of Proposed Rule Making FCC 57-538, May 24, 1957
↑ "1959 Broadcasting Yearbook page 299". Broadcasting Publications, Inc.
↑ Subcarrier authorization, FCC form 318, September 12, 1959
↑ Authorization/license change telegram, from FCC to Highland Broadcasting, December 24, 1971
↑ Construction Permit WLNA-FM 100.7 MHz Peekskill, New York Federal Communications Commission File number BPH-6827, October 31, 1969
↑ "Whud.com". Pamal Broadcasting, Ltd. 2009.
↑ "New York State EAS Plan". New York State Emergency Communications Committee, December 16, 2004.
↑ "Westchester County Emergency Planning Guide". Westchester County Government.
↑ "Emergency Planning Guide, Westchester County". Entergy Corporation. External link in |work= (help)
↑ "Emergency Broadcast Upgrade". Times Herald-Record of Middletown, NY. (News Corporation) November 30, 2007.
↑ "WHUD 54 dBu coverage map". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WHUD

Radio-Locator information on WHUD

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WHUD

Radio stations in the Hudson Valley (Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Orange Counties, New York) market

By AM frequency	910 1110 1150 ¹ 1170 1220 1230 1260 1310 1340 1420 1460 1700 New Jersey 1500

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 (Mount Kisco) 88.9 (Port Jervis) 89.3 90.1 (Stamford) 90.1 (North Salem) 90.3 91.7 92.7 93.5 (New Rochelle) 93.5 (Warwick) 94.1 96.7 97.3 100.7 101.5 103.1 103.9 104.7 105.5 106.3 107.1 107.3

By callsign	W209CJ W228CG W231BP WALL WANZ WARY WBNR WDBY WWES WFAS WFME-FM WGHT WGNY WHUD WJGK WKLV-FM WLJP WLNA WNBM WOSR WPDH WPUT WQXW WRCR WRKL WRPJ WRRV WRVP WRWD-FM WSPK WTBQ WVIP WVOX WWLE WXPK WZAD plus varying levels of New York City stations, depending on location

Defunct stations	WPUT/1510

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 ¹ = Construction permit

Radio stations in the New York City market

By AM frequency	570 660¹ 710¹ 770¹ 820 880¹ 1010 1050 1130¹ 1190 1280 1330 1380 1480 1560⁴ 1600 1620 New Jersey 620 930 970 1430 1500 1530 1660 Westchester County, N.Y. 1460

Apex / VHF FM	42.8

By FM frequency	87.7 88.9 89.1² 89.9 90.3 (New York) 90.3 (Brooklyn) 90.7 91.5 92.3 93.9 95.5 96.3 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 104.3 105.1 106.7 107.5 New Jersey 88.3 89.1² 89.5 90.3 91.1 93.13 94.7 99.1 100.3³ 105.5 105.9³ 106.3 Westchester County, N.Y. 88.1 88.9 90.3 93.5 96.7 103.9 106.3 107.1 Long Island, N.Y. 92.7 103.5³

Via FM subcarrier	67 kHz Chinese Radio New York Gatewave radio reading service Radio Maria Stati Uniti (Italian) 92 kHz Chung Wah Chinese Broadcasting Company ICN Radio Radio Maria Estados Unidos (Spanish) RBC Radio

Digital Radio	710 880 1010 1280 1560 88.3-1 88.3-2 89.5-1 89.5-2 89.9-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 89.9-3 90.7-1 90.7-2 90.7-3 92.3-1 92.3-2 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.5-1 93.5-2 93.5-3 93.5-4 93.9-1 93.9-2 93.9-3 94.7-1 94.7-4 95.5-1 95.5-2 95.5-3 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.9-1 98.7-1 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 101.1-3 102.7-1 102.7-2 102.7-3 103.5-1 103.5-2 103.5-3 103.9-1 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1 107.5-2

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	KWO35 WA2XMN WABC¹ WADO WARY WAWZ WAXQ WBAI WBBR¹ WBGO WBLS WBMP WCBS¹ WCBS-FM WEPN WEPN-FM WFAN¹ WFAN-FM WFDU² WFME¹ WFME-FM WFMU WFUV WGHT WHCR-FM WHTZ WICR WINS WJDM WKCR-FM WKDM WKLV-FM WKMK WKRB WKTU WLIB WLTW WMCA WMSC WNBM WNEW-FM WNSH WNSW WNYC WNYC-FM WNYE WNYM WNYU-FM² WNYZ-LP WOR¹ WPAT WPAT-FM WPLJ WQBU-FM WQHT (HD2) WQXR-FM WQXW WSIA WSKQ-FM WSNR WSOU WVIP WVOX WWES WWPR-FM (HD2) WWRL WWRU WWRV WWZY WXNY-FM WXPK WZRC

Defunct	WHN⁴ WNBC WNBC-FM⁴ WNEW WYNY⁴

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 ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = Stations share time on the frequency. ³ = Station is licensed to a community in their respective sub market (e.g. New Jersey), but transmits from atop the Empire State Building or Freedom Tower. ⁴ = Technically still active, but on a different frequency with new call letters and different intellectual property.

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

Radio stations in the Danbury, Connecticut market

By AM frequency	800 850 940

By FM frequency	91.7 93.3 95.1 96.7 98.3 99.9 105.5 107.3

By Callsign	W297AN WAXB WDAQ WDBY WEZN-FM WFAR WINE WKLV-FM WLAD WRKI WXCI

Connecticut radio markets Bridgeport Danbury Hartford–New Britain–Middletown New Haven New London Stamford–Norwalk 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 Connecticut

Adult Contemporary radio stations in the state of New York

Stations	WAVR – Waverly WBAZ – Bridgehampton WENI – Big Flats WENY – Elmira WHUD – Peekskill WIRY – Plattsburgh WIRY-FM – Plattsburgh West WJKE – Stillwater WKJY – Hempstead WKNY – Kingston WLTB – Johnson City WLTW – New York WLZW – Utica WMRV – Dansville WMXW – Vestal WNYR – Waterloo WNYV – Whitehall WRCR – Spring Valley WRIP – Windham WRMM – Rochester WRNQ – Poughkeepsie WTOJ – Carthage WVIN-FM – Bath WVLF – Norwood WVOR - Canandaigua WWSE – Jamestown WYJB – Albany WYVS – Speculator WYXL – Ithaca WYYY – Syracuse

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

Pamal Broadcasting

AM Radio Stations:	WBNR WENU WGHQ WLNA WMML WROW WSYB

FM Radio Stations:	WAJZ WBPM WDVT WFFG-FM WFLY WHUD WINU WJEN WJJR WKBE WKLI-FM WNYQ WSPK WXPK WYJB WZRT

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