The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and broadcasts at 1,000 watts from a two-tower array adjacent to its studios in the Arlington section of the Town of Poughkeepsie.

The rest of the day features nationally syndicated programs, mostly from co-owned Premiere Networks, including Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Clay Travis & Buck Sexton, Jesse Kelly, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.

Weekends feature specialty programs including The Kim Komando Show, At Home with Gary Sullivan, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Rich DeMuro on Tech, Bill Handel on the Law, Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell and The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra.

WKIP began as an NBC Blue Network affiliate, carrying its schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts during the Golden Age of Radio.

With the shift of network programming from radio to TV, WKIP evolved into a full service Middle of the Road and news format in the 1950s.

At that time, Novick launched FM station 92.1 WRNQ, which had the spirit of WKIP's former format, as well as Van Ritshie.

The talk radio format continued through the 1990s, surviving a simulcast attempt with the Novick-controlled 96.9 MHz which also sported the WKIP-FM call sign.

Then in October 2007, the station returned to talk radio programming, carrying mostly shows from iHeart's Premiere Networks.

On June 10, 2008, WKIP dropped Quinn and Rose and began running the syndicated Don Imus morning show until October 1, 2012.