WDRE (FM)
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, see WPTY-TVWPTY-TVWPTY-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for west Tennessee that is licensed to Memphis. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 25 from a transmitter in the Brunswick section of Arlington. Owned by Newport Television, the station is sister to CW affiliate WLMT and Fox...
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WPTY, "Party 105", is a gold based rhythmic AC station serving the Long Island market, mostly throughout Eastern Suffolk County
Suffolk County, New York
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. The JVC Media LLC outlet broadcasts at 105.3 MHz with their antenna based in Manorville, New York
Manorville, New York
Manorville is a census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 11,131 at the 2000 census.Manorville is served by the Eastport-South Manor Central School District...
at an effective radiated power
Effective radiated power
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...
of 660W and is licensed to Calverton-Roanoke, New York
Calverton, New York
Calverton is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 5,704 at the 2000 census.The community is on the border of the Town of Riverhead and the Town of Brookhaven.-History:...
. Until March 25, 2011, WPTY simulcast its signal via a 10 watt translator at 101.5 MHz based in Plainview. (The 101.5 translator had simulcast sister station WBON
WBON
WBON, also known as "La Nueva Fiesta", is a Spanish-language FM radio station licensed to Westhampton, New York and operating at 98.5 MHz and 96.9 MHz with a Tropical format. Its transmitter is located in Manorville, New York. The station is licensed to JVC Media LLC.Until March 2007, the...
"La Nueva Fiesta" during the period when Party FM was relayed on WNYZ-LP TV channel 6 and 87.7 FM in New York City.)
On November 2, 2009 at 6 AM, "Party 105.3" began a simulcast broadcast on 87.7 FM New York, and was reimaged as "PartyFM - Your Party Music Leader". JVC Media LLC replaced Mega Media Group, whose lease from Island Broadcasting on the former "Pulse 87" WNYZ-LP was terminated on October 30 due to Mega Media Group's financial difficulties, but officially ended on January 21, 2010.
History
The station signed on the air on May 27, 1998 as WXXP under the leadership of Skyy (WKTU, BPM). Their studio was based in the same building as WLIRWLIR
WLIR-FM is a Christian radio station as part of the WLIX Voice of Hope Radio Network. WLIR-FM broadcasts in the Hamptons-Riverhead area. Its transmitter is currently located near East Quogue, New York....
in Garden City, New York
Garden City, New York
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. At first, the station sounded similar to New York
New York City
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's rhythmic AC WKTU
WKTU
WKTU is a radio station based in New York City that plays an upbeat, gold-based CHR format. The station's broadcast transmitter is located on the top of the Empire State Building and its city of license is Lake Success, New York, with offices formerly in the "Newport" section of Jersey City, New...
in format as they were playing older dance material. However as time went on, Party 105's playlist began to add on newer, cutting-edge dance music (house music
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
, trance
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
, freestyle
Freestyle music
Freestyle or Latin freestyle, sometimes referred to as Latin hip hop, is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. Mostly popular during the mid 80s to the early 90s...
), at times being ahead, and began serving the area with a cutting-edge dance direction, which would prove popular with listeners in the area and gave them an alternative to similarly formatted WKTU, which is also heard in the area. Despite being a Dance station it also ventured into the Rhythmic Top 40 arena as well but kept the Dance product intact.
At one time, as WLIR an alternative rock station was experimenting with dance music sounds on their 92.7 frequency, that a grass roots campaign was created, by dance music fans, to have Party 105 simulcast the station on 92.7 since both stations were owned by Jarad and those that lived west of the weak 105.3 signal in New York City could hear the cutting edge station. However, on January 9, 2004, Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
brought the 92.7 frequency to create WZAA
WZAA
WBQH is a radio station in the Washington, D.C. region, licensed to Silver Spring, Maryland. It broadcasts a Regional Mexican format.-History:...
, which simulcasts New York radio station WCAA
WCAA
WXNY-FM is a radio station that broadcasts a Spanish language format. It is licensed to Univision Radio at 96.3 FM, and airs in the New York City metropolitan area.-History:...
, otherwise known as La Kalle, with an urban Spanish format, mainly consisting of reggaeton
Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...
. Interestingly enough, in early February 2008, WNYZ
WNYZ
WNYZ was a low-power television station licensed to New York City, owned by the Island Broadcasting Company. WNYZ's television signal broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 6 and later, digital channel 6 with a virtual channel of 1.1....
of New York City reformatted, becoming "Pulse 87". WNYZ at the time was the only FM station in New York City carrying a Rhythmic/Dance format. It played some of the newer, cutting-edge dance music not normally heard on WKTU.
On January 12, 2004 the station picked up the call letters of the former WDRE
WLIR
WLIR-FM is a Christian radio station as part of the WLIX Voice of Hope Radio Network. WLIR-FM broadcasts in the Hamptons-Riverhead area. Its transmitter is currently located near East Quogue, New York....
, but kept the Dance format intact.
In late 2004, as WBEA
WBEA
WBEA is a Top 40 Mainstream radio station licenced to Southold, New York and serving the east end of Long Island plus southern Connecticut...
changed format to become "Blaze 101.7", Long Island's first hip-hop station, Party 105.3 added more hip-hop, R&B and reggaeton to the format while removing the majority of the dance music aspect, which infuriated the dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
fan base that relied heavily on the station for dance music since the New York City stations weren't cutting edge. In May 2005, Party 105.3 reversed this trend and began playing more dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
than they had in the past. In 2008 WBEA returned to a Top 40/CHR direction, leaving WDRE as Long Island's lone Rhythmic/Dance outlet.
On September 15, 2005 owners The Morey Organization (TMO) changed the format of its stations (along with 107.1 WLIR
WLIR
WLIR-FM is a Christian radio station as part of the WLIX Voice of Hope Radio Network. WLIR-FM broadcasts in the Hamptons-Riverhead area. Its transmitter is currently located near East Quogue, New York....
and 98.5 WBON
WBON
WBON, also known as "La Nueva Fiesta", is a Spanish-language FM radio station licensed to Westhampton, New York and operating at 98.5 MHz and 96.9 MHz with a Tropical format. Its transmitter is located in Manorville, New York. The station is licensed to JVC Media LLC.Until March 2007, the...
). 105.3 became Top 40 "FM Channel 105, Party Hits". The on-air staff was fired and the new format ran with limited commercials, with each programming hour sponsored by an individual advertiser. But the switch did not generate adequate revenue and by December 19, 2005 TMO returned to the Dance format and the "Party 105.3" moniker.
After the return to Dance, the station became more dance music intensive often playing material that New York City Station WKTU
WKTU
WKTU is a radio station based in New York City that plays an upbeat, gold-based CHR format. The station's broadcast transmitter is located on the top of the Empire State Building and its city of license is Lake Success, New York, with offices formerly in the "Newport" section of Jersey City, New...
did not play or added late. After WKTU changed their format to Rhythmic Adult Contemporary
Rhythmic Adult Contemporary
Rhythmic adult contemporary is a format used on stations in the United States and Canada. It usually gears toward an older audience, ages 25 to 54. Stations using this format play disco from the 1970s and early 1980s, dance/pop music, adult-friendly hip hop/old school tracks, R&B, dance/freestyle...
on September 9, 2006, Party 105.3 changed their promos stating that they were "New York's ONLY Dance Music Station", but by September 2007 they decided to cut back on the heavy amount of Dance product by balancing the current music mix with Rhythmic Hip-Hop fare under new operations manager Vic Latino
Vic Latino
Vic Latino is an American radio and television personality of Puerto Rican descent. Latino can be heard on WPTY weekdays from 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m...
, an alumnus of WKTU
WKTU
WKTU is a radio station based in New York City that plays an upbeat, gold-based CHR format. The station's broadcast transmitter is located on the top of the Empire State Building and its city of license is Lake Success, New York, with offices formerly in the "Newport" section of Jersey City, New...
and BPM
BPM (XM)
BPM is one of four Dance/Electronic music satellite channels offered by Sirius XM Radio, operating on XM channel 51 , Sirius channel 51 and Dish Network channel 6036. DirecTV carried this channel on channel 859 until February 9, 2010...
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On December 26, 2006 BusinessTalkRadio.net President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Metter announced the purchases WLIR, WBON, and WDRE for an undisclosed price http://www.musicradio77.com/wwwboard/messages/303513.html but the sales were never completed.
On January 1, 2008, a simulcast was added via a translator at 101.5 MHZ in Plainview, New York
Plainview, New York
Plainview is a hamlet located on Long Island in the town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, USA. The population of the CDP as of 2010 was 26,217. The Plainview post office has the ZIP code 11803....
. This simulcast covered parts of Nassau and Western Suffolk counties not reached by the 105.3 signal.
On March 9, 2009 WDRE was added to the R&R
R&R (magazine)
R&R was a weekly music trade publication that followed the radio industry and tracked the monitoring of current songs by format, station and audience cumes...
Rhythmic Airplay Panel
Rhythmic Airplay Chart
The Rhythmic Airplay Chart is an airplay chart that is featured weekly in Billboard Magazine. The chart tracks and measures the airplay of songs played on Rhythmic stations, whose playlist includes mostly hit-driven R&B/Hip-Hop, Rhythmic pop, and some Dance tracks...
, making them the only reporter on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay panel to be a dual reporter.
On October 7, 2009, WDRE was sold to JVC Media LLC by the Morey Organization. The station adopted the WPTY callsign shortly afterward on October 28, 2009. On October 30, 2009, it was revealed that JVC took over the audio programming lease of low power TV channel 6, WNYZ-LP, after Mega Media's contract with WNYZ owner Island Broadcasting was terminated due to financial difficulties. This resulted in the end of WNYZ's Dance music format. WPTY began simulcasting the 105.3 signal over WNYZ-LP TV channel 6 and its 87.7 FM audio frequency on November 2, 2009 and adopted the new slogan "Party FM - Your Party Music Leader." Five years after dance music fans had campaigned for the relaying of Party 105 for New York City via the 92.7 frequency, the simulcast of the station finally became a reality, albeit on a different frequency. On January 21, 2010, JVC terminated the WNYZ-LP simulcast arrangement due to financial differences with WNYZ-LP's owner. On March 25th, 2011, the 101.5 signal was dropped in Nassau and was replaced by a broadcast signal owned by WLTW.
On October 18, 2011 WPTY changed their format to gold based rhythmic adult contemporary, reverting back to the "Party 105.3" branding..
On-air
- Vic LatinoVic LatinoVic Latino is an American radio and television personality of Puerto Rican descent. Latino can be heard on WPTY weekdays from 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m...
- Goldapper
- "Goumba" Johnny Sialiano
- Alfredo
- Miss Stacy
- Christina Kay
- Jae Boogz
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(traffic)
Former DJs
- Abel Sanchez
- AG
- Andre "The Dre Dog" Ferro
- Astra
- Ballistic Bob
- Bernardo
- Chris X.
- Leeana
- Lynda LopezLynda LopezLynda López is an Emmy Award-winning Puerto Rican American journalist and the youngest sister of actress and singer Jennifer Lopez.-Early years:...
- Natalia
- Nikki
- Pulido
- Syke
- DJ Deuce
- DJ Lil G.
- DJ Mike Sarkus
- Glenn FrisciaFriscia & LamboyFriscia & Lamboy are an electronic music duo. In 2003, they did a remix for Cher's single "Love One Another", in 2004 they remixed Britney Spears's single "Outrageous" and in 2007 remixed Ashley Tisdale's single "He Said She Said"...
- Eutopia
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- DJ Serg
- Jason G.
- Seff Jones
- Phat Head
- Humpty
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- J. Martinez
- The B-Man
- Chris Cruise
- DJ Dimitri
- DJ Loki
- DJ Spanky
- DJ Uch
- Frankie Vasquez
- Razor N' Guido
- Jump Smokers