WALL (AM)
| City | Middletown, New York |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Newburgh-Middletown |
| Branding | WALL Radio |
| Slogan | Orange County and the Hudson Valley's Hometown Station |
| Frequency | 1340 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 94.1 W231BP (Chester) 94.9 W235BI (Middletown) 105.7 W289BE (Ellenville) |
| Repeater(s) | 101.5-2 WPDH-HD2 |
| First air date | August 2, 1942 |
| Format | Classic hits |
| Power | 1,000 watts |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 3137 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°27′25.00″N 74°26′24.00″W / 41.4569444°N 74.4400000°WCoordinates: 41°27′25.00″N 74°26′24.00″W / 41.4569444°N 74.4400000°W |
| Owner | Charles Williamson (Digital Radio Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WCZX, WEOK, WKNY, WKXP, WPDA, WPDH, WRRV, WZAD |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WALL (1340 AM) is a radio station licensed to Middletown, New York, that serves Orange County, New York. WALL is owned by Charles Williamson, through licensee Digital Radio Broadcasting, Inc., and broadcasts at 1340 kHz with 1,000 watts, daytime and nighttime, both nondirectional.
WALL came to air on August 2, 1942, the first radio station in the western part of Orange County, part of a series of low-powered local stations that took to the air in the period after the 1941 North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement and realignment.
WALL signed on with a full-service popular music format with a heavy amount of local news, and with only newspapers as competition, were successful. The station was owned by the Community Broadcasting Corporation whose partners were Roger Clipp, an executive with Triangle Publications (WFIL in Philadelphia) and John Morgan Davis, who ultimately served as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania.
In 1950, WALL hired Jim Patt from WNBH in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as General Manager; he ran the station until 1972. On-air personalities included Bill Swanwick ("Breakfast With Beaming Billy"), Jerry Wax ("The Wax Works"), longtime staffer Joe Ryan and Big Jim Pappas; Al Larson served as news director, with Johnny Zaimes in charge of sales.
The station was sold to R. Peter Straus, owner of WMCA in New York City ("home of the Good Guys"). Straus, who had aspirations to become a United States Senator, bought WALL as well as stations in Utica and Geneva, New York, so his editorials could be heard throughout the state. In 1964, however, Robert F. Kennedy decided to run for the Senate, ending Straus's political plans. Patt stayed on to run WALL for Straus, putting WALL-FM on the air, but when Straus sold his stations, Patt decided it was time to retire to Fort Myers, Florida, where he teamed up again with Roger Clipp to put a station on the air in that market.
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