WUPE (1110

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. It is owned by

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and it

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format of 100.1 WUPE-FM. WUPE serves the Berkshire Mountains area. The station is a

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and must

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the air at sunset, according to

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rules. By day, WUPE transmits with 5,000

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s, using a

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, but because 1110 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for

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and WBT

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, WUPE must be off the air at night, when radio waves travel further. Programming is also heard in Pittsfield on

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W277CJ at 103.3

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. That gives listeners three spots on the dial to hear WUPE, AM 1110, FM 100.1 and FM 103.3.

History

The station first

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the air on . It was

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WGRG. WGRG became

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WUPE in 1977. WUPE became WUHN, playing adult standards in the early 1980s. The format was flipped to

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in 1990, and then to

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in 1996. The WUPE call letters were restored along with the oldies format in 2006. In August 2013, Gamma Broadcasting reached a deal to sell its Berkshire County radio stations, including WUPE, to Reed Miami Holdings; the sale was canceled on December 30, 2013. In August 2015, WUPE added an FM translator in the Pittsfield area. In October 2016, Gamma agreed to sell its stations to

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; that sale also fell through, and in 2017 the stations were acquired by Townsquare Media.

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