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WMHT-FM (89.1 FM broadcasting) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, and serving the Capital District of New York. Co-owned with PBS member station WMHT (channel 17), the station has a classical music format along with some assorted public radio shows from NPR, APM and PRX. WMHT-FM's transmitter is located on the Helderberg Escarpment antenna farm on Pinnacle Road in New Salem, New York. WMHT-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology.http://www.wmht.org/radio/classical/hd-radio/ WMHT HD
WMHT-FM programming is also heard on a part-time basis on WRHV in Poughkeepsie, which is involved in one of the last radio timeshare arrangements in the United States alongside State University of New York at New Paltz-owned WFNP. From October 2005 to March 2006, WMHT-FM programming was also heard on co-owned WEXT in Amsterdam. That station now airs an adult album alternative format, also heard on WMHT-FM's HD2 digital subchannel.
WMHT decided to go in a different direction by launching a classical station. WMHT paid Siena College-owned WVCR-FM to vacate its 89.1 frequency, switching to 88.3 MHz. On June 8, 1972, WMHT-FM officially signed on the air. Because the WMHT call sign, which stood for "Mohawk–Hudson Television", was already established for Channel 17, the FM station took the same call letters. The Mohawk-Hudson Council on Educational Television was the original name of the organization that put Channel 17 on the air.
WMHT-FM's signature program is "Bach's Lunch," a program originally conceived by Pam Mittendorff and Chris Wienk of WSHU-FM in Fairfield, Connecticut. Wienk brought the program to WMHT-FM after it stopped airing on WSHU-FM.
In July 2007, WMHT launched Amsterdam-licensed WEXT (97.7), branded as "Exit 97.7", after the purchase of the commercial license for WBKK, which removed the station's main competitor in the market. WEXT currently runs a non-commercial adult album alternative (AAA) format, along with a focus on local Capital Region artists.
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