WRHV is a classical music

Classical music

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-formatted radio station

Radio station

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 licenced to Poughkeepsie, New York

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 and serving the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York state. The station is owned by WMHT Educational Telecommunications and is a satellite of Schenectady

Schenectady, New York

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's WMHT-FM

WMHT-FM

WMHT-FM is the callsign of a classical music and NPR radio station licenced to Schenectady, New York, broadcasting on 89.1 MHz with 11 kW ERP from the Helderberg Mountains antenna farm in New Scotland, New York...

. WRHV transmits from the main Illinois Mountain tower in Marlborough

Marlborough, New York

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WRHV, which signed on in November 1989

1989 in radio

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 as WMHX-FM (sharing the calls of WMHT's secondary television station

WCWN

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 for the first year of its existence), is involved in one of the few remaining timeshare arrangements on radio in the United States. The 88.7 frequency is shared between WRHV and SUNY New Paltz

State University of New York at New Paltz

The State University of New York at New Paltz, known as SUNY New Paltz for short, is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It was founded in 1828 as the School for teaching of classics. In 1885, the New Paltz Normal and Training School was established as a school to prepare teachers for the...

-owned WFNP-FM

WFNP-FM

WFNP is a college radio station licensed to Rosendale, New York run by students attending the State University of New York at New Paltz, broadcasting on 88.7 MHz at 6 kilowatts ERP from the Illinois Mountain tower in Lloyd, New York....

. Currently, WRHV is on the air at the following times from September 1 to December 1, and February 1 to May 1:

• Weekdays: 5:00 a.m-7:00 p.m.
• Saturdays: 5:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
• Sundays: 5:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.

When SUNY New Paltz is either not in session, in exams, or in start-of-semester preparation, WRHV is heard around the clock. Nevertheless, the timeshare arrangement has had its critics on both sides and as a result WFNP-FM has proposed a move to 98.9 MHz where its programming would be heard full time with WRHV becoming the sole occupant of the 88.7 MHz frequency.