As 1220 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A station XEB Mexico City, WGNY reduces power at night to 180 watts to avoid interference.

Newburgh briefly had a radio station in the early 1920s, using the call sign WCAB, but it was off the air within a few years.

WFMN, owned by brothers Wilbur and Donald Nelson, broadcast at 103.1 MHz and moved into 104 Broadway in Newburgh—just down the street from the old WGNY studios.

Starting in February 26, 2011, a new WGNY-FM in Rosendale, New York, began duplicating WGNY's AM signal on 98.9 MHz.

In 1968, Hudson Horizons (Kenneth Cowan, president) acquired WGNY; the following year, the station's lock on Orange County was loosened with the signing-on of WTBQ in Warwick, New York.

In 1987, WGNY-AM-FM Newburgh was purchased from Philip A. Newman by Kelly Guglielmi, who also owned LPTV in Ventner, NJ.

In June 1990, it was reported by the M Street Journal that WGNY had been transferred from Kelly Guglielmi to CVC Capital Corp.

In March 2005, WGNY-AM-FM began a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Port Jervis' WDLC and WTSX, with the four stations combining air staffs.

[4] A dispute with the all-sports chain led WGNY to switch back to oldies (simulcasting WGNY-FM) on March 17, 2014.