WOR 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 Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. The independently syndicated Dave Ramsey Show is heard at night. Since 2016, the station has served as the flagship station 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 in February 1922 and is one of the oldest 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 continually used call letters in the New York City area.
WABC – branded on-air as, Talkradio 77 WABC; is a commercial conservative talk radio station licensed to New York, New York. Owned by John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Media, the station currently serves as the flagship station for syndicated hosts Mark Levin and John Batchelor; it is the radio home for Bernard McGuirk, Sid Rosenberg, Curtis Sliwa and Juliet Huddy; and is the New York City affiliate for Brian Kilmeade. Weekends feature oldies music programming from Bruce Morrow, and Tony Orlando as well as a standards block by Joe Piscopo. The station's studio facilities are located at Red Apple Media headquarters on Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is located in Lodi, New Jersey. Its 50,000-watt non-directional clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada, and it is the primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System in the New York metropolitan area. WABC simulcasts on 107.1 WLIR-FM in Hampton Bays, New York.
WNYW, virtual channel 5, is the flagship station of the Fox television network, licensed to New York, New York, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation, as part of a duopoly with Secaucus, New Jersey-licensed MyNetworkTV flagship WWOR-TV. The two stations share studios at the Fox Television Center on East 67th Street in Manhattan's Lenox Hill neighborhood; WNYW's transmitter is located at One World Trade Center.
WNBC was a commercial AM radio station licensed to New York City from 1922 to 1988. For most of its history, it was the flagship station of the NBC Radio Network. It was a Class A clear-channel station broadcasting at the maximum power for AM radio, 50,000 watts. WNBC left the air on October 7, 1988. Its former frequency has since been occupied by Entercom-owned all-sports WFAN.
David Allan "Kid" Jensen is a Canadian-born British radio DJ and television presenter. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began as a radio DJ on Radio Luxembourg. Jensen was later a broadcaster for the BBC from 1976 to 1984, as a host on BBC Radio 1 and presenter on the TV music programme Top of the Pops from 1977 to 1984. Jensen has also hosted and presented for Capital FM and ITV among other stations.
WBBR is a Class A clear-channel radio station licensed to New York City. It serves as the flagship station of Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg L.P.'s radio service. The station offers general and financial news reports 24-hours a day, along with local information and interviews with corporate executives, economists and industry analysts.
Joey Reynolds is the pseudonym of Joey Pinto, long-time radio show host and disc jockey. Reynolds' broadcasting career started on TV in Buffalo at WGR TV 2 and he worked at various stations, including at WNBC.
Faction Talk is a subscription-based channel on the satellite radio service Sirius XM Radio. The channel first aired on XM on August 6, 2004 as xL High Voltage in preparation for the launch of the American radio show Opie and Anthony several months later, and required subscribers to purchase the channel as a premium, until 2005.
Robert Ciro Gigante, known as Bob Grant, was an American radio host. A veteran of broadcasting in New York City, Grant is considered a pioneer of the conservative talk radio format and was one of the early adopters of the "combat talk" format. Grant's career spanned from the 1950s until shortly before his death at age 84 on December 31, 2013.
WKFB is an AM radio station licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania that serves the greater Pittsburgh area. The station also broadcasts on 97.5 FM. Known as "97.5 770 KFB", the station airs an oldies format featuring music from the 1950s, 1960s, and the early to mid 1970s. The station is very popular with the audience that prefers the older music and is the only station in southwestern Pennsylvania that plays an oldies format. WKFB is owned and operated by Broadcast Communications, Inc.
WXPK, branded as 107.1 The Peak, is an adult album alternative music formatted radio station licensed to Briarcliff Manor, New York and broadcasts from studios in White Plains, New York. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and transmits from a tower in the Westchester County Correctional Facility with an effective radiated power of 1,900 watts.
Saturday Night Oldies was a Saturday-night music and talk show on WABC Radio in New York City.
Andrew Steven Wilkow is a conservative political talk radio host on the Sirius XM Patriot channel on SIRIUS channel 125 and XM channel 125. Until July 2006, Wilkow had been on WGY in Schenectady, New York, and WABC in New York City. He calls himself the "next generation of great talk radio", a nickname given to him by Mark Levin. Wilkow is also a contributor to the website Conservative Punk. He has a television show on TheBlaze.
Lynn Margaret Samuels was an American radio personality and blogger, based in New York City.
WCBM is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, serving the Baltimore metropolitan area. Owned by WCBM Maryland, Inc., WCBM serves as the Baltimore affiliate for Fox News Radio, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Buck Sexton Show and Coast to Coast AM. The WCBM studios are located in the Baltimore suburb of Pikesville, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Randallstown. Besides its main analog transmission, WCBM is available online.
Ray Heatherton was an American singer, Broadway musical theatre performer, and a New York City television personality in the early days of the medium.
Stephen D. Malzberg is an American television and radio host, syndicated columnist, as well as a prominent pro-zionist political commentator. He hosted The Steve Malzberg Show, a cable news and opinion show on Newsmax TV. He has also hosted The Steve Malzberg Show and various other radio shows on WABC Radio in NYC and on WOR Radio, also in NYC where his show was syndicated on the WOR Radio Network.
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WGAM and WGHM are simulcasting radio stations broadcasting an oldies format named "Oldies Radio WGAM". WGAM is licensed to Manchester, New Hampshire, WGHM to Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. The stations serve southern New Hampshire. The stations are locally owned by Absolute Broadcasting, LLC.
Fred Ronald "Ron" Lundy was a popular radio announcer in New York City, heard on WABC 770 AM from 1965 to 1982 and on WCBS-FM 101.1 from 1984 until his retirement in 1997.
