WABC (AM)
WABC (770 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York City, carrying a conservative talk radio format known as "Talkradio 77". Owned by John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Media, the station's studios are located in Red Apple Media headquarters on Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is 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 Eastern Canada. It is the primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System in the New York metropolitan area and New Jersey. WABC simulcasts on WLIR-FM in Hampton Bays, New York, on eastern Long Island.[4]
This article is about the radio station currently using the call letters WABC. For the station known as WABC from 1926 to 1946, see WCBS (AM).
- New York, New York
- United States
- New York, New York
- United States
770 kHz
Talkradio 77 WABC
- John Catsimatidis[1][2]
- (Red Apple Media, Inc.)
October 1, 1921
WJZ (1921–1953)
- 833 kHz (1921–1923)
- 660 kHz (1923–1928)
- 760 kHz (1928–1941)
formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company
70658
A (Clear channel)
50,000 watts
107.1 WLIR-FM (Hampton Bays)
Listen live (via iHeartRadio)
Owned and operated by the American Broadcasting Company for much of its history, it is one of the country's oldest radio stations. WABC began broadcasting in early October 1921, originally as WJZ in Newark, New Jersey. From 1943 through 2007, the station served as the flagship for the original ABC Radio Network (and its direct predecessor, the Blue Network) and ABC's radio news service. While WABC has been a talk radio station since 1982, the station broadcast a Top 40 music format from 1960 to 1982. Starting in the 1960s to 1978, WABC was not only the dominant contemporary music station in New York City, but was also among the most listened-to radio stations in North America, serving as a template for many other Top 40 stations around the country.
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The station features a lineup of conservative talk shows, including WABC personalities Sid Rosenberg, Rudy Giuliani, Rita Cosby, Dominic Carter, Bo Snerdley,[69] and station owner John Catsimatidis.[70] The station also airs Brian Kilmeade, Greg Kelly, Curtis Sliwa, Bill O'Reilly and The Mark Levin Show. Fox News Radio top-of-the-hour newscasts are also heard.
