WJIP

WJIP (1370 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format, simulcasting WKIP 1450 AM. Licensed to Ellenville, New York, USA. The station broadcasts with a power of 5,000 watts, daytime only, from a single tower located off of Irish Cape Road in the hamlet of Napanoch. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee CC Licenses, LLC.

History

The station was known as WELV for 40 years. WELV first went on the air in 1964 with a full service format featuring a variety of local programming. The format was a broad based free-flowing Middle Of The Road music format leaning adult contemporary. In the early part of 1985, WELV and its FM station were sold to Straus Communications and flipped to an Adult Standards format mixing in limited amounts of soft rock and baby boomer pop hits. Initially, they used the Unforgettable format. By 1986 they went to an in house standards format. Its sister station 99.3 (now WRWB-FM) shared the WELV call letters from 1970–1981 and 1984-1989. In 1991, WELV flipped to a news/talk format with mostly syndicated programming.