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Station Information for WFAN-AM
AM Frequency 660
Station Address 345 Hudson Street,
New York, NY 10014
Classification and Power A, 50,000W
Transmitter Location High Island, NY
Contact office: 718-706-7690
call-in: 808-808-1019
email: fanmail@wfan.com
Website http://www.wfan.com
Station Staff General Manager - Ryan Hurley
General Sales Manager - Sean Argaman
Format Sports/Sports Talk
Sports Coverage NY Yankees, NY Giants, NY Nets
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Owner Audacy, Inc.
History

  First operated by AT&T`s Western Electric subsidiary, WEAF began broadcasting on August 16, 1922 from lower Manhattan. The station was sold to the newly-formed NBC in 1926, becoming the flagship station of the NBC Red Network and moving to 660 kc in 1928. On November 12, 1946, the call letters were changed to WNBC. The name of the station was changed to WRCA in October, 1954 and changed back to WNBC on June 1, 1960. An all-talk format was introduced in 1964, with various music formats airing beginning in 1970; Don Imus and Howard Stern were first heard in NYC on WNBC.  The station was sold by General Electric to Emmis in 1988; all-sports WFAN moved to this frequency from 1050 AM on 10/7/88.   WFAN was sold to Infinity Broadcasting in 1992 and came under the ownership of CBS Radio in 1997.

Comments

  CBS Radio merged with radio group Entercom in 2017, which was rebranded as Audacy in March, 2021.

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