WALK-FM
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| City | Patchogue, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Long Island, New York |
| Branding | WALK 97.5 |
| Slogan | Real Variety from the '90s, 2K and Today! Long Island's Holiday Music Station (Nov.-Dec.) |
| Frequency | 97.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | December 1952 |
| Format | FM/HD1: Hot Adult Contemporary Christmas Music (Nov.-Dec.) HD2: WWSK simulcast |
| ERP | 39,000 watts |
| HAAT | 169 meters (554 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 10137 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°50′41.00″N 73°02′1.00″W / 40.8447222°N 73.0336111°W |
| Callsign meaning | Derived from its sister AM station |
| Owner |
Connoisseur Media (Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WALK, WBZO, WHLI, WKJY, WWSK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WALK-FM (97.5 FM, "WALK 97.5") is a radio station on Long Island with a hot adult contemporary format. The station is licensed to Patchogue, New York. Its transmitter is located on Telescope Hill in Farmingville, New York. The station's signal reaches most of Long Island as well as much of Connecticut reaching into the greater Hartford area.
The station, initially owned by the Suffolk Broadcasting Corporation, went on the air in December 1952 as a sister station to co-owned WALK. For years WALK played nothing but classical, big-band, and jazz. Originally at 15kw, it was purchased in 1963 by the Island Broadcasting System along with its sister stations, WALK Patchogue & WRIV Riverhead. Island Broadcasting was owned in part by NBC News anchorman Chet Huntley. WALK-FM was one of the first stations on Long Island to run a full schedule of Christmas music during the holiday season. The Holiday format began in 1995 on sister station WALK (1370 AM). In later years it was run on both WALK AM & FM. It continues to run on WALK-FM annually from around Thanksgiving through Christmas.
One of WALK-FM's longest running shows was "Klein til 9 and again til 10" hosted by Bob Klein.
The WALK Breakfast Club, the weekday morning show hosted by Mark Daniels and Cindy, was featured on ABC's Good Morning America in December 2005. It was a live report from the WALK-FM studios as the host of GMA asked Mark and Cindy about Holiday music on radio stations. After the report, Cindy accused Mark of paying off the cameraman since the camera was only focusing on Mark.
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