WRWD-FM

WRWD-FM
City	Highland, New York
Broadcast area	Hudson Valley, eastern Catskills
Branding	Country 107.3
Slogan	Hudson Valley's Country Station
Frequency	107.3 MHz
First air date	September 1, 1989
Format	Country
ERP	330 watts
HAAT	295 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	70719
Callsign meaning	children : Rachel, William Jr, and David
Affiliations	Premium Choice iHeartRadio
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (AMFM Radio Licenses, L.L.C.)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wrwdfm.com

WRWD-FM (107.3 FM, "Country 107.3") are the call letters of a country music radio station licensed to Highland, New York and primarily serving the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. The station broadcasts at 330 watts ERP from a tower near Illinois Mountain in Marlborough, New York shared with sister station WBWZ. The station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc..

History

WRWD was put on the air in September 1989 by apple orchard owner William H. ("Bud") Walker who used the call letters to pay tribute to his children, Rachel, William Jr, and David. WRWD took on the country format long avoided by area stations at a time when past failures daunted existing owners and out-of-market stations from New York City, Albany and Hartford were garnering significant shares in the Hudson Valley. At the outset, most programming on the station was satellite fed with former WEOK personality Ken Gonyea at the helm for Mornings.

1990 saw a major change as Walker gave control of the station to Thom Williams who replaced Ken Gonyea in mornings and as program director while taking the station in a new country direction. WRWD at this time added an AM simulcast in 1170 WWLE, a daytime station licensed to Cornwall-on-Hudson which would soon take on the WRWD calls with the FM becoming suffixed. Also added were FM translators in Newburgh, Middletown, and Kingston, all of which either signed off or took on simulcasting new stations by 2000. By 1992, WRWD added former WBPM personality Mike Vincent to their afternoon roster, who later left WRWD by February 1996 for middays/Production Director for 103.1 WGNY,Newburgh, NY.

In 1996, WRWD AM/FM and WBWZ were sold by Walker to Hudson Valley Radio Partners, a short-term holding company. The new ownership relieved morning man Terry Donovan of his duties and took the station to an all-local, current-leaning mainstream format and returned Mike Vincent to mornings from WGNY. Vincent would stay with WRWD until August 1999.

Former logo

After WWLE was sold in 2000, Roberts sold the remnants of their group to Clear Channel Communications which assumed operational control in November. Under Clear Channel, WRWD became #1 in Dutchess and Ulster counties for the first time in 2002 - a feat repeated several times since then.

In 2005, WRWD added an AM simulcast when the former WELV changed format from standards to WRWD's country music format. Following the announcement of the proposed Clear Channel decision to be acquired by a private equity group, WRWD (AM) ended its simulcast, which has moved to WRWB-FM (99.3 MHz) in Ellenville.

In 2011, Clear Channel Radio of the Hudson Valley, fired all local air talent outside of morning drive time and switched to the Premium Choice programming format (pre-recorded announcers from other markets), removing live jocks and locally programmed music.

In March 2012, CJ and Dee in the Morning were fired from their position in morning drive. They then hired Tommy Lee Walker, a former DJ to take over morning drive.

External links

WRWD website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WRWD

Radio-Locator information on WRWD

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WRWD

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

Country radio stations in the state of New York

Stations	WBBI – Endwell WBBS Fulton WBEE-FM – Rochester WBGK – Newport Village WBKT – Norwich WBKX – Fredonia WBNR – Beacon WBRV-FM – Boonville WBUG – Fort Plain WCJW – Warsaw WCKR – Hornell WDBY – Patterson WDLA-FM – Walton WDLC – Port Jervis WDNB – Jeffersonville WDOS – Oneonta WFRG – Utica WFRY – Watertown WGNA-FM – Albany WHUG – Jamestown WHWK – Binghamton WINR – Binghamton WJVC – Center Moriches WKBE – Warrensburg WKLI-FM – Albany WKPQ – Hornell WKXP – Kingston WLFK – Gouverneur WLLG – Lowville WLNA – Peekskill WLSV – Wellsville WNBL – South Bristol Township WNCQ-FM – Canton WNSH – Newark/New York¹ WOKN – Southport WOLF-FM - Baldwinsville WPDM – Potsdam WPGI – Horseheads WPIG – Olean WQNY – Ithaca WRCE – Watkins Glen WRWB-FM – Ellenville WRWD-FM – Highland WUUF – Sodus WVNV – Malone WVTT – Portville WXRL – Lancaster WYRK – Buffalo WZKZ – Alfred

¹ = Although WNSH is licensed to Newark, NJ, it also serves the New York City area, with it's studios in New York City.

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

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Coordinates: 41°42′00″N 74°00′11″W / 41.700°N 74.003°W / 41.700; -74.003

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