WHUD Westchester County Reduces Staff

[MTNProductions]

No baseball tonight anyway on WHUD.
I could be mistaken, and something could have changed, but this March press release from the baseball team itself says nothing about carriage on WHUD:
Hudson Valley Renegades-Pamal Broadcasting partnership
The FM mentioned is "WBPM 96.5" (sic). The 96.5 frequency is actually a translator for WBNR (AM). WBPM is at 92.9 FM.
In fact, the HVR game last Friday evening WAS broadcast on WBPM (92.9 FM), along with AM-ers WBNR, WGHQ and WLNA. That group of AM stations each have an FM translator, and the AM's mentioned ALL normally are simulcasting the WBPM "classic oldies" program.
Fast forward to TONIGHT's Renegades game:
92.9 WBPM is doing its usual "classic hits" presentation. WHUD is running John Tesh's program.
The Renegades game is being broadcast on the 3 above-mentioned AMs, and the WLNA translator. The rest of the translators are out of range for me, so can't say for certain what they're doing.
But no baseball on WHUD.

You’re talking about John Tesh’s “Intelligence For Your Life” show? It’s also being heard on WKXP’s “Lite-FM” at 94.3 and on WROW’s “Magic 590/100. 5” up in Albany, NY. They’re all running Josh Tesh’s show on all three stations, except WKXP’s “Lite-FM” at 94.3 is not owned by Pamal, it’s owned by Townsquare.

And the Hudson Valley Renegades baseball has been carried on WBPM for about 6 months now, and now, they’re carrying New York Knicks and New York Rangers games from WMTR in Morristown, NJ (and on WEPN/WHSQ’s “ESPN Radio” on both 1050 & 880) where they are pre-empting “Doo-Wop Drive” with Allan David Stein, and both games are now on WBPM, and pre-empting a doo-wop show for Knicks and Rangers games for the 2nd year in a row won’t be a “rama-lama-ding-dong” time.

And speaking of doo-wops, Jimmy Howes from WALL will be covering for Allan David Stein on Fridays at 7PM for a limited time due to a sporting event that is going on. And “Doo-Wop Dream Machine” with Bob Trivero will only be heard on WRCR every Friday night without a “Doo-Wop Double Feature”. It will return eventually if there is no game, or right after the regular season and the playoffs.

 

[MTNProductions]

WLIT Chicago is not desperate but it starts today too, that's how things go now.

WRNQ’s “Q92” at 92.1 in Poughkeepsie is going all-Christmas as of 5PM today, which was a week after WHUD went all-Christmas on Halloween and WLIT’s “Lite-FM “ at 9.39 in Chicago.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

WLIT Chicago is not desperate but it starts today too, that's how things go now.

both stations im on start it the day after thanksgiving with 2 songs per hour.

We both ramp it up to 3 songs per hour about a week to 10 days later, 4 songs per hour another week later

The AK station adds in local radio plays between about the 14th and 25... we go all christmas december 24th at 7 or 8am, havent made up my mind... and stay all christmas music till 9am the 26th. only one local show on the 24th, likely the first hour of the morning show. no local shows on the 25th and only one local show, a shortened afternoon show on the 26th.

 

[bilvihur]

I'm just rediscovering this forum after being away for years. When I got an IBM job and moved to Peekskill in 1968, WLNA was my goto radio station. A few years later WHUD began broadcasting a clear, strong signal with DJ's Joe O'Brien (and later Ed Baer), two of the WMCA "Good Guys" that I grew up with in Brooklyn. The music was great, even all the way up to Kingston where I eventually moved. I looked forward to Jim Witt's weather forecasts. It breaks my heart that the station (and radio in general) has fallen on hard times.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@bilvihur
In '68 I was a kid working out on Long Island at my first job that lasted long enough to earn a paid vacation week (at Beautiful Music daytimer WLIX). One of the P/T staffers was a good-voice'd, free-spirited adult guy (Bob Gleason) who mentioned that some 'new, big FM station just North of NYC in Westchester' was going to 'start broadcasting'.
I looked them up in a DX station logbook and thought, 'Sheesh, how could they MISS being huge, what with 50,000 watts.'
Whenever I see the letters 'WHUD' nowadays I always wonder what it would have been like to work at a station that had such a good, long A/C ride. And what sticks in mind is their steady, independent Westchester emphasis, hearing Ed Baer doing a show one Sunday morning at kid sister's place in Sullivan County shortly before he left us, Arbitron deciding to shed (shred ?) its public Westchester book (60th in population but a quite well-off 60th), and Bob Gleason's 'big new station' vision.
Coulda, shoulda been bigger, methinks. But they did it their way.