WIOD
News/talk radio station in Miami / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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WIOD (610 AM) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Miami, Florida, serving the Miami metropolitan area and much of surrounding South Florida. Owned by iHeartMedia, WIOD serves as the Miami affiliate for ABC News Radio, The Glenn Beck Program, The Sean Hannity Show, The Schnitt Show and Coast to Coast AM, and syndicated personalities Clyde Lewis and Bill Cunningham. The WIOD studios are located in Pembroke Pines, and the station transmitter is now in Western Miami-Dade County along Krome Avenue with four towers and 50kw day/20kw evenings. The former two tower array in North Bay Village, Florida has been removed. Besides its main analog transmission, WIOD simulcasts over the HD subchannel of co-owned WBGG-FM, and streams online via iHeartRadio.
Broadcast area | Miami metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 610 kHz |
Branding | Newsradio 610 WIOD |
Programming | |
Format | News–talk |
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WBGG-FM, WHYI-FM, WINZ, WMIA-FM, WMIB, WXBN, WZTU | |
History | |
First air date | January 19, 1926; 98 years ago (1926-01-19) |
Former call signs | WCKR (1959–1962) |
Call sign meaning | "Wonderful Isle Of Dreams" |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 14242 |
Class | B |
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Transmitter coordinates | 25°42′40″N 80°28′30″W |
Repeater(s) | 105.9 WBGG-HD3 (Fort Lauderdale) |
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Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wiod |