The station's studios are in White Plains and its transmitter is off the Sprain Brook Parkway at the Westchester County Correctional Facility in Valhalla.
[3] On April 8, 1960, WRNW got its start at 454 Main Street in Mount Kisco playing a mixture of light classical music and easy listening songs.
By 1967, the station had moved to the second floor at 78 Lexington Avenue, and in June of that year, program director Don Bayley adopted an album rock format making WRNW one of the first FM stations in the New York City area to play rock music full time.
On Monday, July 9, 1973, WRNW inaugurated transmissions from its new Briarcliff Manor studio on the second floor of a small house at 55 Woodside Avenue.
It was there, that Howard Stern obtained his first full time paying radio job as a disc jockey and program director.
Earle Bailey (WLIR, WNEW-FM, WMMR, Sirius XM Radio's Deep Tracks) hosted a shift at the station during the progressive rock era as did Doug Berman, now producer of National Public Radio programs Car Talk and Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.
WZFM was perhaps best known as the home of "The Saturday Night Special", a freewheeling five-hour request 'n' contest good time oldies/comedy series which, over a nine-year run, became the station's highest-rated program.
Co-hosts Gary Theroux and Kerin McCue also developed spinoff specials which were syndicated to other outlets, such as "The Halloween Spooktacular" and the 12-hour "Christmas Through The Years".
"The Saturday Night Special" remained on the air through a call letter change to WXPS The Express until the station was sold to new owners.
[8] In 2004, Pamal ended the WSPK simulcast and debuted the adult album rock format WXPK has today as The Peak.
The Program Director is Chris Herrmann (WHJY, Providence; WCSX, Detroit; WBOS, Boston) who doubles as the midday host.
Previously the morning slot was hosted by Caroline Corley (Sirius Satellite Radio; WLIR, Garden City; WYNY, New York.)