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News 12 Networks's logo used from 2007 until 2019. The first of the channels, News 12 Long Island, was launched by Cablevision on December 15, 1986, to customers on its Long Island system, as the first 24-hour regional cable news service in the United States. Over the years Cablevision expanded the reach of News 12 by adding additional networks ...
Upon receiving nighttime authorization in 1987, WNYG dropped the 14 Gold format and became "Long Island's Good Time Oldies" on January 1, 1988. The playlist was tightened to focus on pre-Beatles rock and roll and doo-wop. When cross-town rival WGLI flipped from oldies to a simulcast of WADO in late 1989, WNYG began to add more 1960s records.
WJVC (96.1 FM, "My Country 96.1") is a country music radio station, licensed to Center Moriches, New York and serving eastern Long Island. The station is owned by JVC Media LLC with studios located in Ronkonkoma, New York and transmitter located in Manorville, New York .
News 12+ (formerly News 12 Traffic & Weather) is an American cable news television channel owned by the Altice USA News subsidiary of Altice USA. The channel provides 24-hour live reports on traffic conditions and weather forecasts for the New York City metropolitan area, updated every 5 minutes. The channel is headquartered in Woodbury, New York.
The majority of the network's playlist is from the 1960s and 70s with scattered tunes from the 50s and 80s. Jones Radio Networks was purchased by Triton Media Group, and "Good Time Oldies" was merged to Dial Global's "Kool Gold" network and then quickly brought back as Good Time Oldies due to affiliate demand. It is also available through the ...
As "The Voice Of Long Island", the station became the dominant local station in Nassau County with a decent signal into Suffolk and Queens Counties. By the early 1950s, WHLI's "Commuter's Time" was the top-rated morning show. [citation needed] The rest of the broadcast day was filled with "familiar good music and local news." The station aired ...
A dispute with the all-sports chain led WGNY to switch back to oldies (simulcasting WGNY-FM) on March 17, 2014. Less than a month later, on April 16, 2014, WGNY re-joined ESPN. In February 2017, WGNY switched to a country music format simulcasting sister station 103.1 WJGK HD-2 as "Today's Best Country: Fox Country 1220 and Fox Country 103.1 HD2."
In 1998, on the occasion of the station's 35th anniversary on the air, and president Paul Sidney's 34th year there, he stated "The key to staying around for 35 years is pretty simple: Be local, in news, sound and music." [12] The station's target market is the Hamptons and eastern Long Island, [13] though the station has been noted as being ...