as Pulse 87. Joel Salkowitz, the station's program director and a former employee of WQHT during, told the online website All Access about Pulse 87's musical direction: "The station is a top 40/rhythmic, leaning away from rock and rap and more towards club and dance sounds in their place. Familiar, rhythmic hits mixed with the very best new music. This is a current/recurrent-based radio station. The station's format, which features more cutting-edge dance music, is unique in New York City as WKTU currently plays a more classic rhythmic adult contemporary dance format. The format is also rarely seen in the US as only a handful of stations carry this format in America." The station transmitted from the Citigroup Building in Long Island City, and Pulse 87.7 IDs alluded to it as "...that big blue building in Queens." Streaming relaunch Pulse 87 has since been relaunched as a streaming station, still operated by Salkowitz, who has purchased the Pulse 87 automation equipment and the intellectual property in a bankruptcy auction. Financial troubles and bankruptcy Mega Media had been in serious financial trouble long before it launched Pulse 87. This came to a head on August 12, 2009, when Mega Media filed for bankruptcy, reporting $3.5 million in liabilities against assets of just $180,000. Mega Media said it had hoped to continue operating Pulse while it restructured under Chapter 11. On October 30, 2009, the lease between Mega Media Group and Island Broadcasting ended because Island Broadcasting did not receive the $500,000 it was owed according to the stipulation and order regarding the time-brokerage agreement. Island Broadcasting was under no obligation to continue allowing Pulse 87 to use their signal without payment for the lease. Pulse 87 went off the air on October 30, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. Party 105 era On November 2, 2009, JVC Broadcasting's WPTY "Party 105" took over the 87.7 frequency. The same programming airing on WPTY, branded Party 105 (in Suffolk County) was heard on 87.7. The music, however, was not the same as the Pulse 87 audience had grown accustomed to. It was a hip-hop based format, with some dance music, but mostly nostalgic 1980s and 1990s rhythmic hits and current R&B and hip-hop. The studios and programming originated on Long Island, while WNYZ served as a simulcast to WPTY. Pulse 87's audience, which had grown to over 1 million listeners per week before they went