WABC (medium wave transmitter)
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| Radio station | |
| Program type | Talk radio |
| reception | analog , digital terrestrial & web radio |
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New York City , New York United States
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| Start of transmission | 1921 |
| Broadcaster | Cumulus Media |
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Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 57 " N , 73 ° 59 ′ 32" W.
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WABC (Branding: 77 WABC Radio ; Slogan: Breaking News, Stimulating Talk ) is an American talk radio broadcaster from New York City in the US state of the same name . The radio station cooperates with ABC News Radio , the former owner of the station. Today WABC belongs to Cumulus Media , number 2 in the US radio market. The biggest competitor in the segment of traditional talk radio stations on medium wave in New York WOR-AM of iHeartMedia . WABC can be received on the medium wave frequency 770 k Hz .
WABC's 50k W transmission system reaches the New York Metropolitan Area over a large area and can be received in 38 US states and at night in large parts of Canada .
history
Two years after it started broadcasting in 1921, the station, which was still known as WJZ at the time, moved in May 1923 from a small studio in New Jersey to a larger one in the US state of New York .
As the "flagship" of the American Broadcasting Company , the station's callsign was changed to WABC in 1953 . With “The Sound of New York” (German: The New Yorker Sound ) - also known as “Top 40” in common parlance - WABC introduced an innovative format ten years later. The station's audience increased to over five million weekly listeners by 1976.
On May 10, 1982, WABC changed its broadcast format from music to talk radio .
In February 1996 , WABC and The Walt Disney Company merged .
The conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity has been hosting his show on WABC since 2006 .
program
In addition to Sean Hannity, one of the most famous local talk shows is Curtis & Kuby with the citizen militia founder Curtis Silva and the lawyer Ronald L. Kuby.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b News Talk Radio 77 WABC New York ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Musicradio77.com (with recording of the last minutes as a music station)
- ^ Curtis and Kuby | WABC-AM | Cumulus . In: WABC-AM | Cumulus . ( wabcradio.com [accessed December 6, 2016]).
- ^ The 50 Most Influential Local Talk Radio Shows in America . In: Newsmax . ( newsmax.com [accessed December 6, 2016]).
