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WXPK (107.1 FM) – better known 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WXPK Facility Record )〕 ==History== On April 8, 1960, WRNW got its start at 454 Main St 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 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Howard Stern and the Satellite wars )〕 Meg Griffin, later of WNEW-FM, WPIX, WXRK (K-rock), 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. In 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WXPK Call sign Record )〕 In 2002, The quadcast adopted a Spanish Contemporary music format branded ''Rumba 107''. 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). In 2003, Pamal changed the call letters to WXPK and used 107.1 to relay the signal of their CHR station WSPK Poughkeepsie. WXPK became known on-air as ''K-107''. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WXPK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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