WKBE

WKBE (107.1 The Point) is the callsign of an Rock leaning Hot Adult Contemporary radio station licensed to Corinth, New York and serving the Glens Falls-Lake George, New York area plus Saratoga County, the Capital Region, and western Vermont. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts on 107.1 MHz at 6 kilowatts ERP from a transmitter located outside Corinth.

History

The 107.1 frequency signed on in June 1967 as a beautiful music station with the call letters WXQL-FM. Its original owner was Harry Barker, who already owned WBZA-AM, a daytime station that broadcast on 1410 kHz. The station was originally licensed to Glens Falls, NY and was the local market's first FM station. Both stations were later sold to Soundcasters, Inc. Later, the calls were changed to WBZA-FM, in the early '70s, when it simulcasted Top 40 WBZA-AM 1410, but went back to Country during the evening hours after WBZA's sunset sign off in those days, since 1410 was originally a daytimer. Eventually WBZA-FM, completely separated its programming from WBZA-AM, and programmed Beautiful music full-time for a few years in the mid-1970s. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, the station generally did a variation of what would now be considered Hot Adult Contemporary. After WBZA-FM, numerous call letters appeared on 107.1 including WNIQ from 1979 to 1986, WAYI from 1986 to 1993, and WMJR from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, it flipped to Top 40 as WHTR (Hot 107.1), licensed to Hudson Falls and owned by Bradmark Communications, owner of several other stations in the market. At its outset, the station had a locally run Top 40 going against several out-of-market stations. WHTR's most famous alumni of this period was a young Joe Rosati, now better known as "Joey Kidd" of WHTZ (with stops at WFLY, WKKF, and WQSX along the way, who made his debut at the station.