westchester county new york new york city new york branding 107.1 the peak slogan world class rock for new york s backyard frequency 107.1 mhz first air date april 8 1960 1960 04 08 format adult album alternative erp 1 900 watts haat 180 meters 590 ft class a facility id 50056 transmitter coordinates 41 4 49.55 n 73 48 24.4256 w 41.0804306 n 73.806784889 w 41.0804306 ; 73.806784889 callsign meaning similar to wspk adopted during k 104 k 107 simulcast or wxpeak former callsigns wrnw 1960 1982 wzfm 1982 1991 wxps 1991 1994 wrgx 1994 1997 wwxy 1997 1998 wyny 1998 2003 owner pamal broadcasting 6 johnson road licenses inc. sister stations wbnr wbpm wghq whud wlna wspk webcast listen live website 1071thepeak . com wxpk 107.1 fm branded as 107.1 the peak is an american adult album alternative music formatted radio station in white plains new york . the station is owned by pamal broadcasting and transmits from a tower in the westchester county correctional facility with an effective radiated power of 1 900 watts . 1 contents 1 history 2 programming 3 references 4 external links history edit on april 8 1960 wrnw got its start at 454 main street in mount kisco playing a mixture of light classical and easy listening music and it went stereo in 1964 . founder and broadcast engineer richard burden was instrumental in the development fm stereo broadcasting . by 1967 the station had moved to the second floor at 78 lexington avenue and in june of that year program director don bayley adopted an album rock format making wrnw one of the very first fm stations in the new york city area to play rock music . new york s wor fm went rock in 1966 but was hampered by an aftra strike ; wnew fm started their progressive rock format in october 1967 . in 1969 the station was sold to lake champlain broadcasting company which shared owners with 105.9 whbi in newark . wrnw then played big band music during the day and sold block time from 10pm 2am weekdays and all day weekends to clients shared with whbi . according to wrnw s founder the letters rnw stood for radio of northern westchester . in 1971 wrnw changed to an easy listening format and then to top 40 . in 1972 the station transitioned to a progressive rock format . on monday july 9 1973 wrnw inaugurated transmissions from its new briarcliff manor studio on the second floor of a small house at 55 woodside avenue . the new transmitter was in irvington blanketing white plains yonkers and lower westchester . it was there in 1976 that howard stern obtained his first paying radio job as a dj and program director . 2 3 meg griffin later of wnew fm wpix wxrk wfuv and sirius satellite radio was also music director of the station during the mid 70s . ted utz also began his professional career at the station in 1976 and went on to program and manage pioneering stations like wmmr in philadelphia and wnew fm . earle bailey wlir wnew fm wmmr philadelphia sirius xm radio s deep tracks manned a shift at the station during the progressive rock era as did doug berman now producer of national public radio programs car talk and wait wait ... don t tell me . in 1982 the station moved to an adult contemporary ac format first known as magic 107 . it soon adopted the wzfm call letters and became known on air as z 107 . the ac format was in place until 1991 . wzfm was perhaps best known as the home of the saturday night special a freewheeling five hour request n contest good time oldies comedy series which over a nine year run became the station s highest rated program . co hosts gary theroux and kerin mccue also developed spinoff specials which were syndicated to other outlets such as the halloween spooktacular and the 12 hour christmas through the years . a three cd adaptation of the latter was released by reader s digest records and ultimately sold over six million box sets . the saturday night special remained on the air through a call letter change to wxps the express until the station was sold to new owners . in the early 90s the new owners flipped the station to an alternative rock format as today s rock x 107 with the wrgx call letters . on december 7 1996 the station became part of the big city radio trimulcast and eventual quadcast with other 107.1 stations on long island in northern new jersey and later the allentown lehigh valley pennsylvania area . wrgx and the other two multicast stations switched formats to country as y 107 . wrgx became known as wwxy and later adopted the call letters of former new york city country station wyny . 4 on may 9 2002 after a day of stunting with construction noises the quadcast adopted a tropical music format branded rumba 107 . 5 the format was ill suited to the quadcast suburban signals and at the end of the year big city radio filed for bankruptcy and sold the quadcast to nassau broadcasting . nassau broke up the quadcast leasing wyny to pamal broadcasting under a local marketing agreement lma . on april 3 2003 at 3 p.m. 107.1 flipped to a simulcast of wspk in poughkeepsie cobranded as k104 and k107 . the first song under the simulcast was ignition by r. kelly . 6 in 2004 pamal ended the wspk simulcast and debuted the adult album rock format wxpk has today as the peak . pamal completed the purchase of wxpk from nassau at the end of 2004 . programming edit the peak adopted the moniker world class rock for new york s backyard in april 2004 . staffed by veteran broadcasters from new york city and around the country the peak is the only commercial triple a radio station in the new york city area . the program director is chris herrmann whjy providence ; wcsx detroit ; wbos boston who doubles as the midday host . the morning peak is the morning drive show and is currently hosted by chris coach rodriguez . previously the morning slot was hosted by caroline corley sirius satellite radio ; wlir garden city ; wyny new york . until her death on november 25 2013 . longtime new york radio personality jimmy fink whfs bethesda ; wxrk new york ; wplj new york is the afternoon host . weekends are branded as the weekend peak . current weekend lineup includes veteran broadcasters pam landry bruce figler and dina dessner . the peak dedicates minimal airtime to syndicated programming ; the bluesmobile hosted by elwood blues airs 8 9pm on sunday and anything anything hosted by rich russo airs 9 10pm on sunday . the peak performance series brings artists to what the station calls the world s most intimate performance venue the acme recording and mastering studio in mamaroneck new york . select members of the station s listener rewards program the peak listener advisory board are invited to attend . the sessions are recorded and played back on the air . the resulting tracks are exclusive to the peak and are generally not available for purchase or download although the station has released compilation albums . like format leaders kbco in denver colorado and kfog in san francisco the peak airs a locally produced 10 at 10 weekdays at 10 am and 10 pm . the program features 10 songs from a single year peppered with snippets of popular movies television shows and commercials from that year . in 2006 the editors of westchester magazine named the peak s 10 at 10 hosted by rob arrow the best local radio show . in the annual best of westchester 2007 issue readers voted the peak best radio station . 7 in 2008 jimmy fink was named best radio personality by the readers of westchester magazine . 8 in 2011 caroline corley was named best radio personality by the readers of westchester magazine . 9 corley repeated as best radio broadcaster winner again in 2014 a posthumous tribute to her legacy . 10 anything anything with rich russo airs on sunday nights . references edit wxpk facility record . united states federal communications commission audio division . stern howard ; larry ratso sloman 1993 . mein kampf my struggle . in judith regan . private parts 1st ed . . simon & schuster . p. 119 . isbn 978 0 671 88016 3 . oclc 28968496 . so i went up there and the radio station was in an old house in the middle of a residential area of briarcliff manor . one of the bedrooms was the radio station studio the other was a production studio . i was doing this show and i was fucking nervous and my voice was horse and i was croaking wrnw and talking soft like an fm disc jockey . cite uses deprecated parameter coauthors help howard stern and the satellite wars . cond nast publications wired.com . wxpk call sign record . united states federal communications commission audio division . http www.bostonradio.org nerw nerw 020513.html wyny becomes k107 .1 best radio station 2007 . today media inc westchester magazine . best radio personality 2008 . today media inc westchester magazine . best of westchester arts & leisure 2011 . today media inc westchester magazine . best of westchester arts & leisure 2014 . today media inc westchester magazine . external links edit official website query the fcc s fm station database for wxpk radio locator information on wxpk query nielsen audio s fm station database for wxpk v t e radio stations in the hudson valley westchester rockland putnam and orange counties new york market by am frequency 910 1110 1150 1 1170 1220 1230 1260 1310 1340 1420 1460 1700 new jersey 1500 by fm frequency 88.1 88.9 mount kisco 88.9 port jervis 89.3 90.1 stamford 90.1 north salem 90.3 91.7 92.7 93.5 new rochelle 93.5 warwick 94.1 96.7 97.3 100.7 101.5 103.1 103.9 104.7 105.5 106.3 107.1 107.3 by callsign w209cj w228cg w231bp wall wanz wary wbnr wdby wwes wfas wfme fm wght wgny whud wjgk wklv fm wljp wlna wnbm wosr wpdh wput wqxw wrcr wrkl wrpj wrrv wrvp wrwd fm wspk wtbq wvip wvox wwle wxpk wzad defunct stations wput 1510 new york radio markets albany schenectady troy binghamton buffalo niagara falls elmira corning hudson valley nassau suffolk long island new york city olean plattsburgh poughkeepsie rochester syracuse utica rome watertown other new york radio regions ithaca jamestown dunkirk north country saratoga nyc metro markets long island hudson valley partial poughkeepsie middlesex somerset union monmouth ocean morristown bridgeport danbury new haven stamford norwalk see also list of radio stations in new york 1 construction permit v t e radio stations in the new york city market by am frequency 570 660 1 710 1 770 1 820 880 1 1010 1050 1130 1 1190 1280 1330 1380 1480 1560 1 1600 1620 new jersey 620 930 970 1430 1500 1530 1660 westchester county n.y. 1460 by fm frequency 87.7 88.9 89.12 89.9 90.3 new york 90.3 brooklyn 90.7 91.5 92.3 93.9 95.5 96.3 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 104.3 105.1 106.7 107.5 new jersey 88.3 89.12 89.5 90.3 91.1 93.1 94.7 99.1 100.3 102.3 105.5 105.9 106.3 107.1 westchester county n.y. 88.1 88.9 90.3 93.5 96.7 100.7 103.9 106.3 107.1 long island n.y. 92.7 103.5 via fm subcarrier 67 khz chinese radio new york gatewave radio reading service radio maria stati uniti italian 92 khz chung wah chinese broadcasting company icn radio radio maria estados unidos spanish rbc radio digital radio 710 880 1010 1280 1560 88.3 1 88.3 2 89.5 1 89.5 2 89.9 1 89.9