WOR (AM)
Clear-channel AM radio station in New York City / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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WOR (710 AM) is a 50,000-watt class A clear-channel AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to New York City. The station airs a mix of local and syndicated talk radio shows, primarily from co-owned Premiere Networks, including The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor, from CBS Audio Network is heard at night. Since 2016, the station has served as the New York outlet for co-owned NBC News Radio. The station's studios are located in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan at the former AT&T Building, with its transmitter in Rutherford, New Jersey. WOR began broadcasting on Wednesday, February 22, 1922, and is one of the oldest continuously operating radio stations in the United States with a three–letter call sign, characteristic of a station dating from the 1920s. WOR is the only New York City station to have retained its original three-letter call sign, making those the oldest continuously used call letters in the New York City area.
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Broadcast area | New York metropolitan area |
Frequency | 710 kHz |
Branding | 710 WOR |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Format | News–talk |
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WAXQ, WHTZ, WKTU, WLTW, WWPR-FM, WWRL | |
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First air date | February 22, 1922 (102 years ago) (1922-02-22) |
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Call sign meaning | randomly assigned, backronym "World of Radio"[1] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 7710 |
Class | A |
Power | 50,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°47′50″N 74°5′24″W |
Repeater(s) | 104.3 WAXQ-HD2 (New York) |
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Webcast | Listen live (via iHeartRadio) |
Website | 710wor |