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WIPS (AM)

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After losing thousands of dollars per month, WIPS went silent on February 29, 2008. According to reporter Scott Fybush, WIPS went back on the air shortly before its license was scheduled to be deleted in April 2009. WIPS was eventually deleted two years later, on August 4, 2011, as Bisiblue, LLC
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stations, featuring six music formats and local news for Ticonderoga. However, the project failed six weeks after launch owing to financial mismanagement, and fraud. A criminal investigation into Robert Streeter and the WIPS operation was launched by the Ticonderoga Police Department.
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in Ticonderoga. The studio and its transmitter were both located on the shores of Lake Champlain. In 1981, a fire burned the original studios to the ground. Limestone Communications ran WIPS for a while, eventually adding an FM station on 103.9 MHz (WXTY, now
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asked to cancel the license; in its request, Bisiblue noted that the station had been silent since October 30, 2009, and that under federal law the WIPS license had effectively expired on October 30, 2010.
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In January 2018, the WIPS name was reused by J. Walter Broadcasting (a company controlled by Robert Streeter) for a group of
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WIPS started in July 1955 as an AM station located on
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This article about a radio station in New York is a
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Ticonderoga, New York
North Country, New York
Frequency
kHz
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classic hits
ABC Radio
1955
2009
Call sign
Facility ID
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43°51′16″N 73°23′24″W / 43.85444°N 73.39000°W / 43.85444; -73.39000
AM
radio station
classic hits
Ticonderoga, New York
Essex County, New York
Addison County, Vermont
Lake Champlain
Fort Ticonderoga
Route 74
WANC
Crown Point, New York
Timeless Favorites
ABC Radio
Internet radio

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