WHMP

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WHMP
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Broadcast area
Pioneer Valley
[[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]]1400 kHz
BrandingNewsTalk WHMP
Programming
Formatnews/talk
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Ownership
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  • Saga Communications
  • (Saga Communications of New England, LLC)
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History
First air date
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Call sign meaning
Hampshire County
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
46962
ClassC
Power1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates
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WebcastListen live
Websitewww.whmp.com

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WHMP (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Northampton, Massachusetts, it serves the Pioneer Valley, with studios on Hampton Avenue. It is owned by Saga Communications, and operates as part of its Northampton Radio Group.

WHMP is powered at 1,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. Its programming is also heard on FM translator station W268CZ at 101.5 MHz in Northampton, and on an HD Radio digital subchannel of WRSI (93.9 FM) in Turners Falls.

Programming

Weekdays begin with news, talk and information shows hosted by Jess Tyler, Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg. The rest of the schedule is nationally syndicated talk programs: The Stephanie Miller Show, The Thom Hartmann Show, The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, Armstrong & Getty, John Batchelor, America at Night and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.

Weekends feature specialty shows on health, pets, technology, travel, cars and gardening. Syndicated programs include The Kim Komando Show, The Car Doctor with Ron Ananian, World Travel with Rudy Maxa, Rich DeMuro on Tech, The Lars Larson Show, along with a Sunday morning polka music show and a Sunday evening old-time radio show. Most hours begin with an update from CBS News Radio.

History

WHMP signed on the air in December 4, 1950, as Northampton's first radio station.[2] For much of its early decades, it aired a full service format of middle of the road (MOR) music, news, talk and sports. It had been an affiliate of the ABC Information Network. In 1965, it added an FM sister station, WHMP-FM 99.3.[3]

During the 2000s and 2010s, WHMP was simulcast on WHMQ (1240 AM) in Greenfield and WHNP (1600 AM) in East Longmeadow. WHNP and WHMQ previously simulcast sister FM stations; WHNP was a simulcast of WAQY-FM (as WAQY,[4][5] WMRE,[4][5] and WPNT[6]) until 2000[7][8] (it carried a promotional loop for Six Flags New England for several months after dropping the WAQY simulcast[7][9]), while WHMQ repeated WHAI-FM (as WHAI) until 2001.[10]

WHMP's network of stations constituted part of a network of progressive talk stations throughout the northeastern United States that were owned by Saga Communications (others included WNYY in Ithaca, New York, and WKVT in Brattleboro, Vermont); these, in turn, were among the last progressive talk stations still on the air in early 2017. Because of the migration of most progressive talk shows to off-air platforms, Saga announced plans to drop the format from WNYY in Ithaca effective February 1, 2017;[11] WHNP received WNYY's translator under a policy that allows translators to be moved up to 250 miles from their original city of license.[12] On February 3, 2017, following the translator's move, WHNP dropped out of the simulcast with WHMP and became WLZX, a simulcast of WLZX-FM (the former WHMP-FM).[13]

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Logo used with 96.9 translator

WHMP was previously carried on translator W245BK (96.9 FM) in Amherst. Following the launch of W268CZ, the 96.9 facility was repurposed as an oldies station, fed by the HD3 channel of WLZX-FM, in June 2018.[14] Until February 1, 2021, WHMQ in Greenfield had its own translator, W298CA (107.5 FM); that facility then launched a soft adult contemporary format originating from the HD2 channel of WPVQ-FM.[15]

Saga Communications surrendered WHMQ's license to the Federal Communications Commission on March 20, 2023, and it was deleted the same day.

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WHMP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'Hamp's First Radio Station Takes To Air". The Springfield Union. Springfield, Massachusetts. December 4, 1950. p. 5. Retrieved October 5, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Broadcasting Yearbook 1975. 1975. p. C-90.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fybush, Scott (January 18, 1997). "New England RadioWatch". Retrieved January 1, 2008.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fybush, Scott (February 28, 1997). "The Big Get Bigger". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved January 1, 2008.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fybush, Scott (May 21, 1999). "NHPR Goes North". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved January 1, 2008.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fybush, Scott (October 23, 2000). "WNSS Gets Funny, Utica Gets Buggy, Dodge Gets Arrested". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved January 1, 2008.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fybush, Scott (October 30, 2000). "Martin-Trigona -- He's Back!". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved January 1, 2008.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fybush, Scott (June 2, 2000). "What "Cooperation" Means". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved January 1, 2008.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fybush, Scott (February 5, 2001). "River Flows to New Home". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved January 1, 2008.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Reynolds, Nick (January 11, 2017). "A Progressive Talk Station Goes Off Air. No, It's Not A Conspiracy". Ithaca Times. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  12. ^ Fybush, Scott (January 16, 2017). Prog Talk Fades Away. NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  13. ^ Laser 99.3 Adds Second Signal Radioinsight - February 3, 2017
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Venta, Lance (June 4, 2018). "Saga Launches Pure Oldies In Amherst MA". RadioInsight. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Venta, Lance (February 21, 2021). "Saga Gets EZ In Greenfield MA". RadioInsight. Retrieved March 27, 2023.

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