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WGNY AM Early Roots

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HudsonValley1967

WGNY-AM started in Chester at Peter Goelets' house. The frequency in the 1930's was 1210 KHz and it ran 100 watts. Has anyone been to the house recently? Is there anything left of the original station or transmitter?

Update: I recall WGNY-AM's single stick near the then "new" New York State Thruway. Their studio in the 1950's near the Armory on Broadway.
 
Didn't WGNY broadcast from Goshen, New York in the 1960s ?

HudsonValley1967 said:
WGNY-AM started in Chester at Peter Goelets' house. The frequency in the 1930's was 1210 KHz and it ran 100 watts. Has anyone been to the house recently? Is there anything left of the original station or transmitter?

Update: I recall WGNY-AM's single stick near the then "new" New York State Thruway. Their studio in the 1950's near the Armory on Broadway.
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No. In the 1960's studio and transmitter of WGNY-AM was located in Newburgh, NY.
The original location of WGNY-AM was the Glenmere Mansion in Chester, NY. According to accounts, Goelet the
founder of WGNY-AM, requested WCNY-AM ("C" for Chester) from the Federal Government. WCNY was already issued. He settled
for WGNY.

The Glenmere Mansion is now an up-up scale hotel. Goshen never had an AM station, just a county court house
that looked like a space ship.
 
Not really on-topic, but a year and a half ago I was listening to WGNY while on a painting job around 1:30- 2PM. I had been tuning around during a bag-lunch break, and, Lo! 'Too Late To Turn Back Now' was playing. Imho, one of the greatest pop tunes ever penned.

Thing is, it was coming into a pretty good portable radio in St. Clair, PA, a spot listed as 125 miles away from Newburgh. The 'catch' had to be a form of that Mid-Winter Anomaly reception, where a random AM signal bounces back from the sky as though it were nighttime, and does so for long stretches of time. I guess I listened for the better part of an hour. At times of their signal crests they even were splashing a bit onto 1210 WPHT, a far closer station!

I believe WGNY always sent their signal east-west, with the same emphasis to the west, even back in the days when they were 5000 watts. But I never thought I'd hear a Hudson Valley station here, off a radio, and in the daytime at that. And it certainly was good to hear music on the AM dial.

Lol ; certainly I tried for WBNR 1260. This winter form of daytime reception is known to favor regions. But no luck with WBNR.
 
Just wondering as I don't remember to well, I moved to Orange Country in 1974 so wanted to know was WGNY a Top 40 station in the Spring/Summer of 1974 ? Also who were the DJs back then in 1974 ?
 
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