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WZAD
WZAD "(The Wolf)" is country music radio station licensed to Wurtsboro, New York that serves the Catskill Mountains region, Orange County, New York, and Pike County, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts on 97.3 MHz with 620 watts ERP from a tower between Wurtsboro and Monticello. Its studios are in Poughkeepsie, New York.
WZAD's programming is a simulcast of sister station 94.3 WKXP Kingston, an arrangement that began in March 2006. Prior to this, WZAD
which led to the push of WCZX/WZAD to change format. In February 2002 WCZX/WZAD began a gradual evolution away from oldies. Initially they added some 1980s music. By the Summer the pre 1964 oldies were nearly gone and they were known as "Oldies 97 The Hudson valley's Best Mix". By August 2002, the station began focusing on the 1970s and played music from 1964 to 1989. Labor Day weekend in 2002 saw the name change to "Mix 97", which at that time was a