WKIP (AM)

WKIP is a talk radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York and serving the immediate Poughkeepsie area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. broadcasts on 1450 kHz at 1 kilowatt daytime and nighttime from a two tower array adjacent to its studios in the Arlington section of the Town of Poughkeepsie.

It is unique from most AM radio stations in the US as it broadcast with a directional antenna daytime, non-directional antenna night time.

History

Originally owned by Poughkeepsie Newspaper Incorporated, WKIP signed on in 1940 with 250 watts of power, the first radio station in Dutchess County since the move of WOKO in Beacon to Albany a decade earlier. Like many other "local" frequency stations the FCC approved in the period leading to and after the NARBA treaty and realignment, WKIP began its life with a full-service locally based format and from the outset had an affiliation with the NBC Blue network which later evolved into today's ABC. WKIP's involvement with ABC would last for the remainder of the 20th Century.