The WHUD storm center which covers Westchester, The Hudson Valley, and some of its neighboring locales announced today the School closings along with WSPK-FM, WBNR-WLNA, WXPK-FM, and WBPM-FM.
WHUD Storm Center
WHUD (100.7 WHUD) is an Adult Contemporary radio station authorized to Peekskill, New York. The station is claimed 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.
In early 1957, Highland Broadcasting, owner of WLNA, started appealing to the Federal Communications Commission to grant a class B FM allocation to the City of Peekskill, New York. In the petition, Highland noticed that there were no class B FM allotments between Poughkeepsie and New York City, that the far-flung northern rural areas were fairly vigorously populated, and not the greater part of the zone was secured by FM signs, and it was socially novel from New York City.
At first, it was suspected that 106.7 MHz would fit in with the stations effectively authorized to New York City. However, by March 1957 that frequency had just been connected by the Riverside Church in New York City. After some frequency rearranging between the urban communities of New Haven, Connecticut, and Waterbury, Connecticut, 100.7 MHz was dispensed to Peekskill, New York on May 24, 1957.
WLNA-FM was marked out of the blue on October 24, 1958, as the second FM station between New York City and Albany, New York. The configuration was a 100% simulcast of WLNA. During this time, the FM station’s primary wellspring of income was a Muzak Subcarrier.
The first major changes to the station happened in late 1971. On October 14, 1971, the call sign was changed to WHUD. In December 1971, WHUD expanded its power from 20 KW to 50 KW ERP. In February 1972, the simulcast with WLNA finished, and WHUD started broadcasting in Stereo and propelled a Beautiful music format.
The Bonneville format comprised to a great extent of instrumental fronts of pop tunes with some vocal benchmarks. Some Adult Contemporary artists were blended into the music turn with one vocal track for every 15 minutes crafted by Program Director (and morning identity) Joe O’Brien. Preceding his work at WHUD, O’Brien was one of the WMCA Good Guys and had been doing mornings on the New York City station since the early 60s.
During this early period, WHUD marked its configuration as Music From the Terrace, a term named for the area of WHUD’s studios on Radio Terrace, (41°18′46.04″N 73°54′58.2552″W) an open road 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 the long-lasting New York City radio character Ed Baer. Baer spent an aggregate of 18 years broadcasting in the New York City advertising, also as one of the WMCA good guys then on country station WHN and later on WYNY. He stayed toward the beginning of the day demonstrate position until the point when he resigned for the second time in 2000. Ed Baer was supplanted by long-term news chief Mike Bennett who got his beginning at Hudson Valley radio station WHVW in the mid-1970s.
1986 was also the year that WHUD started to measure up to out the vocal/instrumental proportion to the point that by mid-1990 it was an even part. 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. All through the principal half of the 1990s, WHUD would keep advancing to a wide playlist Adult Contemporary format.
In 1997, WHUD was sold to Albany, New York-based Pamal Broadcasting. The studios were moved from Radio Terrace to the recently recreated “Broadcast Center” on NY Route 52, in the town of Fishkill, New York.
After the ownership transfer, Pamal modified the format with a slight recurrent lean to the playlist and the addition of the Delilah show in the evening time slot in spite of the same program being cleared on the Poughkeepsie-based WRNQ. This geographic escape clause additionally prompted the stations to share a Jingle bundle for quite a long while. Regardless, WHUD dropped Delilah in September 2006 and replaced her with a live and nearby night program called Night Rhythms facilitated by Catherine Michaels (the program would resurface on WLTW two months later and continues to air there although in a localized format).
WHUD is one of the few stations in the Hudson Valley (along with co-owned WSPK) that is live 24/7. This enables the station to keep up a nearby programming component including breaking news, traffic, and weather updates that voice tracked/automated stations cannot. WHUD serves as the primary (LP-1) Emergency Alert System (EAS) station for Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, and Orange Counties.
As such it is the first media outlet in the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant public warning system. Prior to the studio move to Fishkill, New York these duties fell to WABC (AM) in New York City because WHUD’s studio was located within the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone around the Indian Point Energy Center.
In July 2007 Pamal spent around $500,000 to update WHUD’s transmitter site and add redundancies to its technical facility to ensure that the station could meet its public warning responsibilities.
WHUD’s flag achieves the greater part of the Hudson Valley and suburbia of New York City with a usable flag in a great part of the Five Boroughs (particularly in the Bronx). Altogether, WHUD’s flag achieves parts of five states. The essential target market of WHUD is that of Westchester and Rockland Counties in addition to the Mid-Hudson Valley. In all of these areas, WHUD is at or close to the highest point of the evaluations even with more confined rivalry in those markets and is by far the highest rated Westchester County station in Nielsen’s New York City book.
Official Website: WHUD Storm Centre