49-504: WGL may refer to: WGL, the original (1927–1928) call sign of the New York City radio station that has since evolved into WADO WGL (AM) , a radio station (1250 AM) licensed to Fort Wayne, Indiana WGL (software) a window management interface for OpenGL on Windows platforms WGL-FM, a former (2007-2014) call sign of a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to Huntington, Indiana, which
98-446: A construction permit (CP) for daytime operation at 50,000 watts. While planning the rebuilt site, engineering director David Stewart hit on the idea of a night power increase using the proposed four-day towers (the licensed night site was two of those four towers). The night CP was granted for 7,200 watts. The new system went on air in 2000 using a Harris DX-50 transmitter for days and a DX-10 for nights. The phasing and coupling equipment
147-454: A Spanish tropical format. WADO remained News and Talk. In 2002, Hispanic Broadcasting was sold to Univision , making WADO and 96.3 WXNY-FM both Univision-owned and operated stations. On December 20, 2016, Univision announced that WADO would be one of the charter network affiliates of Univision Deportes Radio , the company's new Spanish-language sports network launched on April 19, 2017. On June 3, 2022, Univision announced it would sell
196-481: A formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard. On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32 , which notified 164 stations, including WGL, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it." However,
245-849: A four- tower array . The transmitter is on New Jersey Route 120 in Carlstadt, New Jersey . WADO currently broadcasts all games of the New York Jets , and certain games for the New York Yankees , New York Knicks and New York Islanders . It previously aired the New York City FC soccer team. WGL was first reported in December 1926, owned by the International Broadcasting Corporation in New York City. WGL's start occurred during
294-414: A late morning show on WOR called Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick . WOR's morning show Rambling with Gambling aired every weekday morning on the station, from March 1925 to September 2000, across three generations of hosts: John B. Gambling , his son John A. Gambling , and his grandson John R. Gambling . After John R. Gambling's edition of the show was dropped, he moved to 770 WABC , where he hosted
343-723: A late-morning show until January 2008. He returned to WOR mornings in May 2008. Although never aimed at young listeners, WOR was this group's radio station of record in the New York metropolitan area during bad winter weather. Students of all ages dialed up 710 AM on their radios as the Gamblings dutifully announced a comprehensive list of school closings for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, in strict alphabetical order. John R. Gambling later hosted middays on 970 WNYM for several years, after retiring from WOR in December 2013. For many years
392-608: A new location. Circa 1966, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a construction permit for a new location in Lyndhurst, New Jersey . That location features three full half-wave (692 feet) guyed antennas in a triangular array. WOR was within one mile of both AM 1190 WLIB and AM 1010 WINS . Thus each WOR tower hosted AM detuning apparatus to prevent adverse distortion of WINS and WLIB radiation patterns. Built on hydraulic landfill,
441-431: A package of 18 radio stations across 10 of its markets, primarily AM outlets in large cities (including WADO) and entire clusters in smaller markets such as McAllen, Texas , and Fresno, California , for $ 60 million to a new company known as Latino Media Network (LMN); Univision proposed to handle operations for a year under agreement before turning over operational control to LMN in the fourth quarter of 2023. The sale
490-509: A period when the U.S. government had temporarily lost its authority to assign transmitting frequencies, and at the end of 1926 the station was reported to be on a non-standard frequency of 678 kHz. On January 30, 1927, the station signed on , with International Broadcasting president Colonel Lewis Landes stating on the inaugural broadcast, "The International Broadcasting Corporation's aim is to adhere to truth, to be free of partisanship, religious or political." Full government regulation of radio
539-430: A radio station on the air to help promote receiver sales, as well as for general publicity. Effective December 1, 1921, the U.S. Department of Commerce set aside a single wavelength, 360 meters (833 kilohertz), for radio stations to broadcast "entertainment" programs. The store applied for a license which was granted on February 20, 1922, with the randomly assigned call sign of WOR. The station's original city of license
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#1732772106177588-629: A schedule of daytime to 6 pm. WOV's initial programming was aimed at a general audience, but by the mid-1930s, it strengthened its ethnic ties and expanded its Italian-language programming to fill the daytime hours. WOV soon became the dominant Italian voice in the Northeast through its affiliation with share-time station WBIL and Iraci's WPEN in Philadelphia . During this time, the Italian-American accordionist John Serry Sr.
637-627: A short distance to Rutherford, New Jersey , near the Western Spur of the New Jersey Turnpike . On August 13, 2012, it was announced that WOR was to be purchased by Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia ), pending FCC approval. A local marketing agreement began on August 15, 2012. On December 20, 2012, the day Clear Channel officially took ownership of the station, The Dr. Joy Browne Show , The Gov. David Paterson Show , and The Mike Huckabee Show were removed from
686-697: A total of ten regional stations were using 360 meters. This restricted the number of hours available to WOR, which was now limited to just a few hours per week. In September 1922 the Department of Commerce set aside a second entertainment wavelength, 400 meters (750 kHz), for "Class B" stations that had quality equipment and programming. In the New York City region, WOR, along with two New York City American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) stations, WBAY and WEAF (now WFAN ), were assigned to this new wavelength. Additional "Class B" broadcasting frequencies were announced in May 1923, including three for
735-399: Is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York . It is owned by Uforia Audio Network , and broadcasts a Spanish-language sports radio format . By day, WADO is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum permitted for American AM stations. But to protect other stations on 1280 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 7,200 watts. It uses a directional antenna with
784-546: The Mutual Broadcasting System and became its New York City flagship station. Mutual was one of the "Big Four" national radio networks in the United States during the 1930s–1980s. In 1941, the station changed its city of license from Newark to New York City. In 1957, WOR ended its relationship with Mutual and became an independent station. However, the station continued to carry Mutual's "Top of
833-490: The 9th floor of Chickering Hall at 27 West 57th Street. It relocated to 1440 Broadway, two blocks from Times Square . WOR was a charter member of the CBS Radio Network (CBS), acting as the flagship of the 16 stations that aired the first Columbia Broadcasting System network program on September 18, 1927. In 1934, WOR in partnership with Chicago radio station WGN , and Cincinnati radio station WLW , formed
882-536: The Mets lasted through the 2018 season, after which the team announced a new seven-year agreement with Entercom to air games on WCBS 880. McCarthy's show was also discontinued. WOR was once the flagship station of the now-defunct WOR Radio Network. The network distributed nationally syndicated programming, all from the WOR studios at 111 Broadway in New York. Following the sale of WOR to Clear Channel Communications, what
931-581: The Morning show, simulcast from iHeart alternative rock station WWDC in Washington, D.C., former WNBC sportscaster Len Berman and Tampa Bay area radio host Todd Schnitt were hired as the station's morning hosts. Schnitt left WOR in October 2017, while Berman continued with guest co-hosts in the 6:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. slot. A new co-host, NY Post Broadway columnist, Michael Riedel ,
980-630: The Newark/New York City area. WOR moved to 740 kHz, where it shared time with WDT (which shut down by the end of the year) and a new RCA station, WJY . WJY rarely used the time periods assigned to it, and by the summer of 1926, WOR began operating full-time, stating that the silent WJY was considered to have forfeited its hours. In June 1927, the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) moved WOR to 710 kHz, which it has occupied ever since. On November 11, 1928, under
1029-813: The News" with Fulton Lewis for 15 minutes each evening, Monday–Friday at 7:00 p.m. for several more years. On April 30, 2005, WOR moved from its offices and studios at 1440 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, where it had been based for 79 years. It relocated to a new facility at 111 Broadway near Wall Street in the Financial District . After the station was acquired by Clear Channel Communications in 2012, it moved to its current location at Clear Channel's studios on Avenue of The Americas in Tribeca . In 1941, WOR put an FM radio station, W71NY, on
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#17327721061771078-485: 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. WOR's original owner was Bamberger's Department Store in Newark, New Jersey . In the early 1920s the store was selling radio receivers and wanted to put
1127-512: The WOR helicopter crashed into an apartment building in Astoria, Queens as he was broadcasting a traffic update. The building caught fire and McDermott's body was found nearby. Beginning in October 2011, WOR extended its partnership with NBC News beyond hourly national news updates to include live simulcasts of NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press . Beginning in 1935, WOR's transmitter
1176-409: The WOR program schedule. On January 2, 2013, WOR added former WABC weekend host Mark Simone to its weekday morning line up. WOR offers ten hours of live and local programming on weekdays, with syndicated programs heard the rest of the day. Weekends feature mostly paid brokered programming on health, money, real estate and other topics. In late 2014, after WOR cancelled the hot talk Elliot in
1225-476: The WOV call letters were now used on the station at 1280 kHz. The station was owned by WOV Broadcasting until 1959, when it was sold to Bartell Broadcasters , at which time the station's call sign was changed to WADO. During the day, WADO broadcast Top 40 and R&B music. At night, it ran Italian programming. By 1962, some Spanish programming was run on weekends. By 1963, the only English programming found on WADO
1274-600: 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 at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan , 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
1323-769: The air in the region transmitting on 360 meters: WJZ , also in Newark, operated by the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ); WNO, operated by The Jersey Journal newspaper in Jersey City ; and WDT , owned by the Ship Owners Radio Service in the Stapleton section of Staten Island . The use of the common wavelength required a time-sharing agreement between the stations designating transmitting hours. This soon became complicated, for by June
1372-581: The air. WOR had been experimenting with FM broadcasts as W2XWI from its Carteret, New Jersey , transmitter site from 1938. For most of its first two decades, W71NY, later WOR-FM, largely simulcast the same programming as WOR. In 1949, WOR signed on a sister television station, Channel 9 WOR-TV. It started as an independent station , showing mostly movies and reruns of network shows, with some local children's and talk programs. In 1952, WOR-AM-FM-TV were sold to RKO General . The TV station later became WWOR-TV , relocated to Secaucus, New Jersey , after it and
1421-478: The call sign and programming of WOV moving from 1130 to WNEW's 1280 kHz assignment, while WNEW did the reverse, with its call sign and programming moving from 1280 to WOV's 1130 kHz assignment. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the call sign changes on November 12, 1941, and the transfer was finalized on December 1, 1941, consisting of an "exchange of power, call letters and transmitting equipment between WOV and WNEW". Thus, following this exchange,
1470-415: The case. In June 1927, WGL moved to 1020 AM, sharing this frequency with a Paterson station, WODA. In August 1927, studio manager Charles Isaacson announced one of the city's first attempts at local news coverage. WGL was organizing listeners to volunteer as radio reporters and call the station with breaking news stories. Stations were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file
1519-416: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WGL&oldid=1224102892 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WADO WADO (1280 AM )
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1568-555: The mid-1970s. Italian programming was dropped in 1971. Four full-time Spanish stations battled for listeners during the 1980s: WADO along with WKDM 1380, WSKQ 620, and WJIT 1480. Only WADO remains as a secular Spanish-language station. WKDM airs Spanish Christian radio programming, and the other two have ethnic programs in Russian and Mandarin Chinese. The station was sold to Command Broadcasting in 1979. In 1986, Heftel bought
1617-465: The provisions of the FRC's General Order 40 , this assignment was designated a " clear channel " frequency, with WOR the dominant station. In December 1924, although still licensed to Newark, WOR opened a second studio in Manhattan to originate programs, so that stars of the day based in New York City would have better access to the station. Later in 1926, WOR left its original New York City studio on
1666-445: The radio stations, 710 WOR and 98.7 WOR-FM, were sold to separate companies in 1987 (due to an FCC regulation in effect then that forbade TV and radio stations with different owners from sharing the same call letters). WOR-FM today is WEPN-FM . From the 1930s to the early 1980s, WOR was described as a full service radio station, featuring a mix of music, talk and news. There was an emphasis on news reports and talk programs, but music
1715-551: The show was succeeded by the duo of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in June 2021. On November 4, 2013, WOR and the New York Mets announced the team's games would be broadcast on 710 AM, as well as advertised on all local Clear Channel radio stations, beginning with the 2014 baseball season. To act as a lead-in to the Mets, sportscaster Pete McCarthy was given an early evening show called "The Sports Zone". The relationship with
1764-478: The site provides excellent ground conductivity for daytime groundwave radiation. At night when conditions are favorable, WOR could be picked up, using very sensitive radio receivers, in parts of Europe and Africa. It shares Class A status on 710 kHz with KIRO in Seattle . WOR and KIRO must protect each other against interference by using directional antennas. On September 8, 2006, WOR moved its transmitter
1813-572: The station aired detailed, 15-minute news reports on the hour. Newscasters Henry Gladstone , Harry Hennessey, Jack Allen, John Wingate, Lyle Vann, Peter Roberts, Ed Walsh, Shelly Strickler, Sam Hall and Roger Skibenes were some of the on-air members of the news department. Joe Bartlett is WOR's current news director and morning news anchor, having held that position since 1986. WOR introduced live, on-air, helicopter traffic reports with pilot-reporters "Fearless" Fred Feldman and George Meade. On January 10, 1969, fill-in pilot/reporter Frank McDermott died when
1862-483: The station successfully convinced the commission that it should remain licensed. On September 16, 1928, WGL changed its call sign to WOV and was sold to Sicilian -born importer John Iraci. (The WGL call letters were then picked up by a station in Fort Wayne, Indiana.) On November 11, 1928, with the implementation of the FRC's General Order 40 , WOV was moved to 1130 kHz, with an authorization that limited it to
1911-528: The station, and over the next three years, moved to a Spanish language adult contemporary music and talk format. By the early-1990s, WADO was a Spanish language news and talk station. In March 1996, the company bought WPAT and put a Spanish MOR format there, which would later grow to cover additional languages such as Korean . In 1997, Heftel restructured into Hispanic Broadcasters. The company sold WPAT to Multicultural, and acquired WNWK from them]. The brokered shows from WNWK went to WPAT and WCAA went to
1960-470: Was Newark. The station made its debut broadcast on February 22, 1922, from a studio located on an upper floor of the store. A 250-watt De Forest transmitter was constructed on the roof of the department store. The station's first broadcast was made with a homemade microphone constructed by attaching a megaphone to a telephone mouthpiece. Al Jolson 's " April Showers " was the first record played on WOR. Three other broadcasting stations were already on
2009-556: Was added in 2018. Riedel had been a regular contributor to the "Imus In the Morning" show. On January 1, 2014, both the Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity shows were transferred from rival talk radio station WABC, owned by Cumulus Media . Since Premiere Networks, owned by iHeartMedia, syndicates both shows, the shows were brought in-house to WOR to boost the station's ratings and retain revenue. Limbaugh died in February 2021, and
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2107-458: Was consummated on December 30, 2022. Associated with the "Rio" treaty on AM broadcast standards, the FCC began to entertain the idea of power increases on formerly regional channels like 1280. Application was made to raise day power from 5,000 watts on two towers to 50,000 watts on a four-tower system. This remained on file, and was periodically amended as the ownership changed. In 1998, the FCC granted
2156-473: Was designed by Ron Rackley at duTreil, Lundin and Rackley. WOR (AM) WOR (710 AM ) is a 50,000-watt class A clear-channel AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to New York, New York . 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
2205-626: Was featured as a soloist in several broadcasts on WADO early in his professional career in 1931. In early 1940, WOV made a major upgrade in facilities, when stations WPG and WBIL on 1100 kHz were deleted, and WOV moved to this vacated frequency. The next March, with the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement , stations on 1100 kHz were moved as a group to 1130 kHz, meaning WOV returned to its previous assignment. Later in 1941, stations WOV and WNEW traded identities, with
2254-500: Was in Carteret, New Jersey. The site used two steel lattice towers and a steel cable as a third radiating element. The cable hung from a catenary connected to the top of each of the towers. This created a lopsided figure-8 pattern intended to cover both the New York City and Philadelphia markets, making WOR the first 50,000 watt directional station in the U.S. Over the years, construction affected WOR's signal strength and WOR sought
2303-520: Was its Sunday religious broadcasts. In 1964, WADO began broadcasting completely in Spanish from 5 a.m. to 8 pm, and Italian from 8 p.m. to Midnight. Overnight, Asian programming was run. By 1970, Spanish had replaced the Asian format. In terms of music, the station played a blend of Spanish MOR and Spanish oldies . WADO evolved to a Spanish adult contemporary music and oldies format by
2352-852: Was played as well, usually a blend of pop standards and adult contemporary tunes, often described as middle of the road music (MOR). WOR played several songs per hour weekday mornings from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and again afternoons from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. WOR also featured music on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. In ratings reports, WOR was classified as an "MOR/Talk" station until 1984. From 1983 to about 1985, WOR gradually eliminated music altogether, evolving into its current talk format. Past notable hosts include Ed and Pegeen Fitzgerald , Arlene Francis , Long John Nebel , Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy , Bernard Meltzer , Barry Farber , Jean Shepherd , Bob and Ray , Bob Grant and Gene Klavan . From April 15, 1945, to March 21, 1963, newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Dick Kollmar co-hosted
2401-468: Was restored with the formation of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC). Stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927, which assigned WGL to 720 kHz. The station also moved to Secaucus, New Jersey. WGL's assignment was changed to 1170 kHz, with WOR in Newark moving to 710 kHz. WGL's owners wanted to remain on 720 kHz, and after WOR was awarded 710 kHz, both stations went to court, with WOR eventually winning
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