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'''WEPN-FM''' (98.7 [[FM broadcasting|FM]], "TJ 98.7") is a radio station in [[New York City]]. Owned by [[Emmis Communications]], it broadcasts a [[hot adult contemporary]] format. Its transmitter is located at the [[Empire State Building]].
The station originally began operations as an experimental FM station in 1939, spun off from 710 [[WOR (AM)|WOR]]. It then became one of the among the first licensed commercial FM stations in 1941. Until 1965, when the FCC prohibited this practice in larger markets, the station served as an FM simulcast of WOR. At that time, the station—by then owned by [[RKO General]]—flipped to one of New York's first [[Free-form radio|free-form]] [[radio format]]s, focusing on [[progressive rock (radio format)|progressive rock]]. In 1974, it adopted a [[Contemporary hit radio|top 40]] format. Amid declining listenership, the station briefly adopted an [[adult contemporary]] format modeled after Chicago sister [[WKSC-FM|WFYR]] in 1980.
Beginning in December 1980, after further declines in ratings under the format, the station began to transition to a format focused primarily on [[dance music]] (such as [[disco]]) and [[R&B]]; the format officially launched in August 1981, with the station becoming WRKS-FM, ''Kiss FM''. The new format was immediately successful; in 1983, the station became the first in New York City to regularly play [[hip hop]], further contributing to its success, a period as New York's highest-rated station, and a position as a prominent outlet for the [[golden age of hip hop]]. Amid RKO General's exit from the broadcasting industry in the late-1980s, the station was sold to Summit Communications Group.
WRKS was, in turn, acquired by Emmis Communications in 1994, forming the first [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] in New York City radio; prioritizing the urban contemporary format of new sister station [[WQHT]], Emmis flipped WRKS to [[urban adult contemporary]] while maintaining the ''Kiss'' branding. In 2012, Emmis leased the station to [[The Walt Disney Company]] under a 12-year [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA), flipping to [[sports radio]] as WEPN-FM, the flagship of the [[ESPN Radio]] network. In 2021, the LMA was transferred to [[Good Karma Brands]]. In August 2024, the LMA with Emmis expired; as a result, WEPN-FM's programming was migrated to the former [[WHSQ|WCBS]] under a new LMA with [[Audacy, Inc.|Audacy]], while WEPN-FM flipped to an automated hot adult contemporary format in the interim.
== History ==
=== Experimental operations (1939–1941) ===
In the late 1930s [[WOR (AM)|WOR]] (710 AM), then licensed to [[Newark, New Jersey]] and owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, Inc., a division of [[Macy's|R.H. Macy and Company]], became interested in the newly developed technology of FM radio. In the summer of 1939, WOR engineers, working with Bell Telephone engineers, set up an experimental 1,000-watt transmitter in Carteret, New Jersey, with the call sign W2XWI. In June 1940 experimental operations were moved to 444 Madison Avenue in New York City, now operating under the call sign W2XOR.<ref>[http://www.durenberger.com/documents/W71NY.pdf "W71NY New York, N. Y."], ''Pick-ups'', pages 18, 92 (durenberger.com)</ref>
=== As W71NY (1941–1943) ===
The [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) began permitting commercial operations by FM stations in 1941, and Bamberger's New York station was included among the first authorizations made for the original FM band.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/broadcasting20unse#page/n218/mode/1up "New FM Grants Bring Total to 29"], ''Broadcasting'', January 20, 1941, page 55.</ref> The station was given the call sign W71NY, which reflected its operation at 47.1 MHz.
=== As WBAM (1943–1948) ===
Effective November 1, 1943, the FCC updated its call letter policy to allow FM stations to have call signs similar to those used on the AM band. The station initially chose WOR-FM, but six weeks later changed it on December 14 to WBAM.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/broadcasting25unse#page/68/mode/1up "Decisions of the Federal Communications Commission"], ''Broadcasting'', December 20, 1943, page 68.</ref> In 1945 the FM band was moved to higher frequencies, and WBAM was initially reassigned to 96.5 MHz, before moving to 98.7 MHz in October 1947.<ref>[http://www.nyradioguide.com/cgi/info.cgi/WEPN-FM "Station Information for WEPN-FM"] (nyradioguide.com)</ref>
=== As WOR-FM (1948–1972) ===
[[File:WOR-FM 98-7 radio logo.jpg|thumb|150px|The WOR-FM logo from the late 1960s.]]
WBAM changed its call sign to WOR-FM on June 13, 1948.<ref>{{cite news|title=WBAM Now WOR-FM|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-06-14-BC.pdf#page=29|access-date=June 6, 2018|agency=Broadcasting|date=June 14, 1948|page=29}}</ref> Like most early FM stations, the station initially [[simulcast]] [[AM radio|AM]] [[sister station]] [[WOR (AM)|WOR]]. Macy's/Bamberger sold the WOR stations (which launched a [[WWOR-TV|television station]] in October 1949) to the [[General Tire and Rubber Company]] in 1952. General Tire reorganized its broadcasting division into [[RKO General]] in 1957. WOR-FM simulcast its AM sister station's [[full service (radio format)|full service]] Talk/MOR format.
In 1965, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] ordered AM stations in large markets to end continuous simulcasting on co-owned FM frequencies, a move made to spark development of FM stations as individual entities. On July 30, 1966, WOR-FM began running a [[freeform (radio format)|freeform]]-based [[progressive rock (radio format)|progressive rock]] format for most of its broadcast day, though the station continued to simulcast WOR radio's morning program ''[[Rambling with Gambling]]'' for a time afterwards. Under the leadership of legendary disc jockey [[Murray the K|Murray "the K" Kaufman]], and featuring other notable disc jockeys such as [[Scott Muni]] and [[William (Rosko) Mercer|Rosko]], the freeform format was the first of its kind in New York City radio. Later, Muni and Rosko departed for [[WNEW-FM]], where the same progressive format would become a huge success.
Initially, the [[Drake-Chenault]]-consulted, Top 40-formatted WOR-FM played new songs but in less of a rotation than [[WABC (AM)|WABC]], which was then New York's big Top 40 station. Some of the notable early personalities included Bill Brown (who was a holdover from the rock format and would leave for then-rock station [[WCBS-FM]] in 1969); Joe McCoy (who would later become general manager of WCBS-FM); [[Johnny Donovan]] (who would go to WABC in 1972 and remain there until his 2015 retirement); [[Tommy Edwards (announcer)]], later the longtime midday personality on Chicago Top 40 giant [[WLS (AM)]]; and Al Brady (who would program WABC in 1979), among others.
=== As WXLO (1972–1981) ===
{{Distinguish||text=Fitchburg, Massachusetts radio station [[WXLO]]}}
On October 23, 1972, RKO General changed the station's call sign to WXLO, and starting in April 1974, it became known as ''99X'', a reference to the WXLO frequency's close proximity on the FM dial to 99 MHz. This was a version of what was known as the "Q" format, so named because it was modeled after station KCBQ in San Diego. The format featured about 15-20 currents, with a heavy emphasis on constant contests and promotions.
In 1976, WXLO held a contest in which listeners had to guess the identity of six [[Beatles]] songs blended together in a sound montage. The Beatles montage was about three seconds in duration and contained one or two notes of each of the songs. They were "Hey Jude", "[[Got to Get You into My Life]]", "Day Tripper", "Come Together", "[[Do You Want to Know a Secret]]", and "Ticket to Ride". The station announced that the contest winner was from [[Tappan, New York]]. The prize was a [[Rock-Ola]] jukebox stocked with Beatles 45s. The station also once held an all-[[Elton John]] weekend. Listeners had to count how many Elton songs were played and win his ''[[Elton John's Greatest Hits|Greatest Hits Vol. 1]]'' album. Another weekend they held a "No Bee Gees" weekend, where they asked their listeners to request Bee Gee songs that they didn't want played. "I'll be sure to not get that on the air for you" a DJ said on that weekend.
WXLO evolved to a younger skewing Top 40 format and the "99X" moniker remained until late 1979, when it became "FM 99 WXLO". This iteration had decent ratings for a while, but by the spring of 1980, the ratings fell dramatically. RKO General phased out the Top 40 format, and brought in new program director Don Kelly from successful sister soft adult contemporary WFYR in Chicago in an attempt to duplicate that format's success on WXLO. The station at first attempted a call letter change back to WOR-FM, but an FCC challenge from competing crosstown WRFM (now [[WWPR-FM]]) prevented the call letter change from happening. Still, Kelly attempted to make the station the same adult contemporary format he had in Chicago. These changes did not gain any new listeners for WXLO, and ratings sank even lower. Later, Kelly adjusted the music and very slowly and gradually began mixing more disco and soul into the format. In the fall of 1980, Kelly, in consultation with RKO General, decided to go after [[WBLS-FM]]'s urban audience and WKTU's Rhythmic audience by bringing in new music director [[Barry Mayo]]. Mayo, shortly before his arrival, suggested a new format for the station to Kelly and then-general manager Lee S. Simonson after he received a surprising lambasting from his idol, WBLS Program Director [[Frankie Crocker]] (who would later become his rival). Mayo would later become WXLO's program director when Kelly left to start his own consultancy.
By December 1980, the station was leaning towards [[Disco]] and [[R&B]]. The station dropped [[American Top 40]] in January 1981. The evolution was gradual, and by May 1981, WXLO was nearly all rhythmic, playing almost all disco, soul, and rhythmic-friendly pop. Almost all the rock and AC crossovers were gone. By today's standards, this station would be called "[[Rhythmic contemporary|Rhythmic]] [[Contemporary hit radio|CHR]]", but that term did not exist back in 1981. Therefore, the station was classified as "[[Urban Contemporary]]" (which today would be considered as a strictly [[R&B]]-type format whether [[Hip hop music|Rap]] or [[Soul music|Soul]]).
=== As WRKS (1981–2012) ===
==== Enter "Kiss FM" (1981–1994) ====
[[File:WRKS-FM 1981 radio logo.png|thumb|WRKS logo from 1981 to 1994]]
In June 1981, the station was known on-air as "FM 99 WXLO making its move to 98.7". By the middle of July, the station had changed its call sign to WRKS-FM (the meaning of which originally referred to its being an RKO Station) and adopted the on-air brand ''98.7 Kiss FM'', as the station's transition to this new [[urban contemporary]] format was completed by that August. The first song on "Kiss FM" was ''Make That Move'' by [[Shalamar]].<ref>{{cite web |title=WXLO 98.7 New York – Launch of 98.7 Kiss FM – Charlie Burger / Mary Thomas – July 31 1981 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxbo7wJH6hs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/Sxbo7wJH6hs |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|via=YouTube |access-date=March 12, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Early on, WRKS played a great deal of [[R&B]] and [[dance music]], and became an almost instant hit with listeners, as its ratings skyrocketed from 22nd place to third. Notable Kiss FM Mixmasters at the time [[Shep Pettibone]] and, later, [[Tony Humphries (musician)|Tony Humphries]], were commissioned to create longer versions of current popular songs. Longtime [[urban contemporary]] leader [[WBLS]] was caught off-guard by the sudden rise of the new station, which represented its first direct competition in that format.
Around mid-1983, the station approached [[Afrika Bambaataa]] about an underground [[hip hop music]] show. He liked the idea and appointed [[DJ Jazzy Jay]], a fellow member of [[Universal Zulu Nation|Zulu Nation]]. He then passed the gig on to his cousin, [[DJ Red Alert]]. In Fall 1983, WRKS became the first station in the United States to play [[rap music]] in regular rotation. Also that year, non-R&B dance music and disco were phased out, as the station played strictly music catering mainly to an African-American audience. WBLS responded by hiring [[Mr. Magic]] to conduct a weekend rap show, which helped WBLS reach number-three in the ratings that year, beating out WRKS. Nevertheless, the station had made such strides in its first two-and-a-half years that it resulted in Barry Mayo being promoted as general manager, the first African-American to hold such a position in the RKO radio chain.
WRKS incorporated artists such as [[Kurtis Blow]], [[Whodini]], [[Run DMC]], [[Fat Boys]], [[LL Cool J]], and [[Public Enemy]] into the same rotation as such established acts as [[Ashford & Simpson]], [[Kool and the Gang]], and [[Gladys Knight]]. In 1986, [[Indianapolis]]-based [[Emmis Communications]] launched WQHT (then at 103.5 FM), which had an early emphasis on dance music, forcing WRKS and WBLS to add more dance music to their playlists again. In 1988, Mayo left to organize a new broadcasting company with Lee S. Simonson and Bill Pearson, and RKO appointed Charles Warfield (former general manager of WBLS) as the new general manager of WRKS. With Vinny Brown as the station's program director, WRKS became the No. 1 radio station in the largest media market in the world for six years right through the mid 1990s.
By the late 1980s, however, RKO General was forced out of the broadcasting business when the FCC began revoking its licenses to its radio and television stations in New York, [[Boston]] and Los Angeles because of gross misconduct and lack of candor on the part of its corporate parent, the [[General Tire]] and Rubber Company.<ref>[http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm RKO General, Inc. v. FCC (1981)-II. Invalid Bases of the FCC Decision; III. RKO's Lack of Candor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831093020/http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm |date=August 31, 2006 }}. Retrieved 11/27/06.</ref> Having already been stripped in 1982 of its license to [[WNAC-TV (defunct)|WNAC-TV]] in Boston, RKO was left with no choice but to break up its broadcasting unit.<ref>[http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm RKO General, Inc. v. FCC (1981)-(Intro) Opinion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831093020/http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm |date=August 31, 2006 }}. Retrieved 12/09/06.</ref> In New York City, RKO's three stations were sold to different companies during a two-year period beginning in 1987. Two years after WOR-TV went to [[MCA Inc.|MCA]] (and renamed [[WWOR-TV]]), on June 26, 1989, RKO sold WRKS to the Summit Communications Group of [[Atlanta]].<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1988/BC-1988-12-12.pdf#page=70 "Summit gets WRKS-FM for $50 million."] ''[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]]'', December 12, 1988, pg. 66.</ref> Around the same time, WOR radio was sold to [[Buckley Broadcasting]].
That same year, [[WBLS]] lured on-air personality Mike Love (formerly of the original ''Kiss Wake-Up Club'') to their morning drive show. WRKS immediately formulated a new morning show featuring Ken "Spider" Webb and Jeff Foxx along with then-unknown [[Wendy Williams]]. (Foxx and Webb would continue on for the next several years, while Williams held various shifts on the station.)
For many years, WRKS was number one in the [[Arbitron]] ratings due to its [[hip hop]]-influenced format. WRKS was also the first radio station in the United States to embrace [[dancehall]] and [[reggae]] music by adding Dahved Levy to do a Sunday night reggae show with Sting International. The battle between WRKS and WBLS continued into the 1990s, but a major turning point occurred in the spring of 1994, when WQHT changed formats from dance music to primarily hip-hop by luring "Funk Master Flex" away from WRKS, who, at the time, was a fill-in DJ for "DJ Red Alert" when Red Alert was out on tour or making appearances, thus competing directly with WRKS. WRKS responded by adding "The Bomb Squad Mix Show", hosted by "The N.O." (also known as "The Native One") featuring "DJ Enuff", "DJ Ace", and "Supernatural the Freestyle Fanatic". The Bomb Squad began "breaking" hot new hip-hop artists and ushering in the "Golden Era of Hip Hop". The Bomb Squad was the first hip-hop mix show in the country to play the records of [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], [[Wu Tang Clan]], and [[Mobb Deep]]. The Bomb Squad introduced its signature "bomb dropping" whistle sound effect as they played exclusive new hip-hop music and produced fresh remixes not heard on other urban stations across the country. Leaning towards a younger demographic, the station formulated a new morning show featuring Wendy Williams, who was replaced by "The Native One" during her former 6 p.m.-10 p.m. weeknights shift.
Based on WRKS's success, several radio stations in other markets began to use the "[[KISS-FM (brand)|Kiss FM]]" moniker for branding the station itself or its format. In the case of WRKS, the branding was grandfathered even as [[Clear Channel Communications]] trademarked "Kiss FM" for its use on its [[mainstream top 40]] pop stations in the late 1990s, largely based on [[KIIS-FM]] in Los Angeles, whose "KIIS" name was trademarked by prior owner [[Gannett Company]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | title = Trademark registration 1540895 | access-date = May 3, 2011 | url = http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=73585355}}</ref>
==== "Smooth R&B and Classic Soul" (1994–2012) ====
In December 1994, WQHT's parent Emmis Communications took advantage of newly relaxed FCC ownership regulations and agreed to purchase WRKS from Summit, forming the market's first FM [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]]. WRKS subsequently stopped playing hip-hop and flipped to [[urban adult contemporary]] format using the slogan "Smooth R&B and Classic [[Soul music|Soul]]". The shift in format resulted in notable personalities associated with the previous format, such as Wendy Williams and Red Alert, moving from WRKS to WQHT. The new sound on WRKS was introduced by the station during its annual "Twelve Days of Kiss-mas" promotion during the Christmas holiday, and was fully implemented in January 1995. Soul music legend [[Barry White]] became the station's imaging voice and promotional face, and would remain in this role until his death in 2003.
In September 1995, WRKS hired another deep-voiced [[bass singer]], [[Isaac Hayes]], as its new morning show host, and later added Ashford & Simpson to helm its afternoon drive program. Funk musician [[Roger Troutman]] (of the band [[Zapp (band)|Zapp]]) and former disc jockey-turned-motivational speaker [[Leslie C. Brown|Les Brown]] also hosted programs on WRKS around this time.
WRKS's playlist for its first year consisted almost exclusively of songs from the 1960s and 1970s; after 1996, the station began reintroducing current R&B back into rotation. But in 1999, WRKS switched from a classic soul-based Urban AC format to a mostly current R&B format. That same year, [[Frankie Crocker]] was hired as an announcer and a weekend DJ. The station slowly began to reintroduce rap in 2000. When [[WWPR-FM]] was launched in March 2002, the station shifted back to classic soul. In 2003, [[Barry Mayo]] briefly returned as general manager for WRKS, WQHT and jazz-formatted WQCD (now [[WFAN-FM]]), and WRKS returned to its full-fledged Urban AC format.
In April 2001, WRKS became the New York home for the nationally syndicated ''[[Tom Joyner]] [[Tom Joyner Morning Show|Morning Show]]'', as Isaac Hayes chose not to renew his contract with the station; he remained for a few months to host the local segments within the program (known on the station as ''The Tom Joyner Morning Show with Isaac Hayes''). Joyner's first stint on WRKS lasted only two years; the station picked up his program again in the spring of 2011. In 2003, author and "relationship expert" [[Michael Baisden]] became host of the afternoon show, which later became syndicated nationally in January 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.urbanradionation.com/2012/04/michael-baisden-says-farewell-to-kiss.html|title=Michael Baisden Says 'FAREWELL TO KISS' FM in New York}}</ref>
In early September 2010, the slogan for the station, "Old School & Today's R&B", changed to "'80s, '90s & Today's R&B", which included dropping most pre-1979 titles. This would later change to "Classic Soul & Today's R&B", which would last until the station's demise in 2012.
Notable station radio personalities during the KISS-FM years included:
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* [[Barry Mayo]] (1981)
* [[Jazzy Jay]] (1983)
* [[Shep Pettibone]] (Mastermixer) (1981–1984)
* [[DJ Chuck Chillout]] (1982–1989)
* [[Tony Humphries (musician)|Tony Humphries]] (1982–1994)
* [[Wendy Williams]] (1989–1994)
* [[Ashford & Simpson]] (1995–1999)
* [[Roberta Flack]] (1995–1999)
* [[Isaac Hayes]] (1996–2001)
* [[D. L. Hughley]] (2009–2010)
* [[DJ Red Alert]] (Mastermixer) (1983–1994; 2007–2012)
* [[Tom Joyner]] (2001–2003; 2011–2012)
* [[Michael Baisden]] (2003–2012)
* [[Lil Nat]] (2010–2012)
* [[DJ Cocoa Chanelle]] (Mastermixer) (2011–2012)
* [[Ed Lover]] (2011–2012)
While WRKS had a long-standing repertoire among listeners in the African-American community alongside WBLS, it suffered an advertising revenue setback in later years. This was due in part to Arbitron switching to the [[portable people meter]] system to monitor ratings around 2010, which caused controversy among urban radio advertisers in major markets. In addition, an increasing debt load at Emmis's corporate level which forced the company to sell 80 percent of WRXP to Merlin Media in 2011 was also a major factor.
=== ESPN Radio (2012–2024) ===
[[File:The logo of ESPN New York, 98.7 FM.png|thumb|Logo as "ESPN New York" (2012-2024)]]
On April 26, 2012, [[the Walt Disney Company]] and Emmis Communications agreed to a 12-year-lease of the 98.7 FM frequency for an undisclosed price. YMF Media (which acquired WBLS' parent [[Inner City Broadcasting Corporation]]) acquired the intellectual property and trademarks of WRKS, primarily the New York City market rights to "Kiss-FM". As a result, Kiss signed off on the 30th with a goodbye show featuring all of the remaining airstaff, and went off the air at midnight, with "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" by [[Willie Hutch]] being the last song on Kiss. Immediately after, [[ESPN Radio]] began broadcasting on 98.7 FM under a [[local marketing agreement]] with the Walt Disney Company. Inner City/YMF also moved WBLS and its AM sister station [[WLIB]] into WRKS's former office/studio space at Emmis' New York broadcast facility.
The 98.7 frequency simulcast [[WEPN (AM)|WEPN]], the ESPN owned-and-operated AM station until September 7, 2012, when the AM station switched over to [[ESPN Deportes Radio]] full-time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Terranova |first1=Justin |title=ESPN Radio confirms move to FM |url=https://nypost.com/2012/04/26/espn-radio-confirms-move-to-fm/ |access-date=August 1, 2022 |newspaper=[[New York Post]] |date=April 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hajela |first1=Deepti |title=Format Changes Bring End to NYC Radio Rivalry |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/wrks-987-fm-radio-lease-espn-sports-talk-radio-rivalry-wbls-1075-over/2096460/ |access-date=August 1, 2022 |publisher=[[WNBC]] |date=April 26, 2012}}</ref> After the closure of ESPN Deportes Radio in 2019, the AM station became a passthrough for overflow programming, including the national ESPN Radio weekday schedule.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last1=Marchand |first1=Andrew |date=September 19, 2023 |title=ESPN New York ditching 98.7 FM signal in 2024 |url=https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/espn-new-york-ditching-98-7-fm-signal-in-2024/ |access-date=September 19, 2023 |newspaper=New York Post |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Marchand |first=Andrew |title=WFAN parent company reaches deal to license 880 AM to ESPN NY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5695816/2024/08/12/wfan-espn-new-york-880-am/ |access-date=August 12, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
The station's call sign changed to WEPN-FM on May 14, 2012, to match the AM call sign. YMF Media then transferred the [[WRKS]] call sign to the ESPN Radio affiliate in the [[Jackson, Mississippi]] area.
In December 2021, [[Beaver Dam, Wisconsin]]-based [[Good Karma Brands]]—an operator of ESPN Radio affiliates in other markets—announced that it would acquire operational control of WEPN-FM from Disney/ESPN, with Good Karma assuming the remainder of Disney's lease agreement with Emmis Communications; Emmis maintains ownership of the station's license. In the same transaction, Good Karma purchased full ownership of WEPN (AM) and ESPN Radio-owned stations in [[WMVP|Chicago]] and [[KSPN (AM)|Los Angeles]] from Disney.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hauer|first=Sarah|title=Good Karma Brands is acquiring ESPN radio stations in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2021/12/14/good-karma-brands-acquiring-espn-stations-new-york-los-angeles-milwaukee/6506446001/|access-date=December 14, 2021|website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|language=en-US}}</ref>
=== End of ESPN Radio LMA, ''TJ 98.7'' (2024–present) ===
On September 19, 2023, GKB owner Craig Karmazin told the ''[[New York Post]]'' that it would not renew the LMA with Emmis when it expires and would thus relinquish the 98.7 FM frequency on August 31, 2024. GKB had made an offer to acquire WEPN-FM outright, but talks with Emmis were unproductive.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2023 |title=Ahead of Station Sale, Good Karma To End LMA Of WEPN-FM And Move 'ESPN New York' To AM Next Year. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/ahead-of-station-sale-good-karma-to-end-lma-of-wepn-fm-and-move-espn/article_63de8d96-5716-11ee-93b6-9fab41b97f18.html |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref> The original plan was to consolidate WEPN-FM's local programming onto 1050 AM, and direct users to the ESPN New York digital platform for overflow programming.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=August 1, 2024 |title=With No Sale Imminent, New York's 'ESPN 98.7' Will Give Way To Music In Weeks. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/free/with-no-sale-imminent-new-york-s-espn-98-7-will-give-way-to-music/article_1bc9f44e-4fce-11ef-9f2f-8b077aa4c2ad.html |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref> However, on August 12, 2024, GKB instead announced that it would enter into an LMA with [[Audacy, Inc.|Audacy]]'s 880 WCBS beginning August 26, replacing its all-news format with WEPN-FM's former programming as [[WHSQ]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Good Karma Brands To LMA 880 WCBS From Audacy Following 98.7 Sign-Off |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/277824/277824/ |access-date=August 12, 2024 |website=RadioInsight |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
After the expiration of the LMA, WEPN-FM's operations would be assumed by Emmis, with reported plans for the station to return to a music-based format, pending the search for a new operator or the outright sale of the station.<ref name=":2" /> At midnight on August 31, 2024, WEPN-FM dropped its ESPN Radio programming and flipped to [[hot adult contemporary]] as ''TJ 98.7.'' Its namesake is TJ Taormina—a former cast member and co-host of [[WHTZ]]'s [[Elvis Duran and the Morning Show|''Elvis Duran and the Morning Show'']]; his syndicated morning show ''The TJ Show'' made its New York premiere on the station. The format is being billed as a "[[Pop-up retail|pop-up]]" station, and is being [[Broadcast automation|automated]] and [[Voice-tracking|voice-tracked]] using a [[Cloud computing|cloud]] platform. It is not yet known if the ''TJ'' format is a short term [[Stunting (broadcasting)|stunt]], or will serve as a long-term interim format while Emmis shops the station.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2024 |title=Emmis Launches TJ 98.7 "The Pop Up Radio Station" New York |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/279594/emmis-launches-tj-98-7-the-pop-up-radio-station-new-york/ |access-date=September 4, 2024 |website=RadioInsight |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 3, 2024 |title=News Bites: TJ98.7,' RAB, Chris Broussard. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/free/news-bites-tj98-7-rab-chris-broussard/article_b16bb84c-6a32-11ef-924b-3f607a74344b.html |access-date=September 4, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 31, 2024 |title='TJ' Begins Stunting on Emmis' 98.7 NYC FM Following ESPN Exit |url=https://radioink.com/2024/08/31/tj-begins-stunting-on-emmis-98-7-nyc-fm-following-espn-exit/ |access-date=September 4, 2024 |website=Radio Ink |language=en-US}}</ref>
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{FM station data|63781|WEPN}}
* [https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=82973 FCC History cards for WEPN-FM] (covering W71NY / WOR-FM / WBAM / WOR-FM / WXLO / WRKS-FM from 1940 to 1981)
* [https://www.udel.edu/nero/Radio/readings/urban.html History of Urban Contemporary]
* [http://www.nyradioguide.com/cgi/info.cgi/WEPN-FM New York Radio Guide]
* [https://worfm.com/ Tribute site to WOR-FM and WXLO]
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'''WEPN-FM''' (98.7 [[FM broadcasting|FM]], "TJ 98.7") is a radio station in [[New York City]]. Owned by [[Emmis Communications]], it broadcasts a [[hot adult contemporary]] format. Its transmitter is located at the [[Empire State Building]].
The station originally began operations as an experimental FM station in 1939, spun off from 710 [[WOR (AM)|WOR]]. It then became one of the among the first licensed commercial FM stations in 1941. Until 1965, when the FCC prohibited this practice in larger markets, the station served as an FM simulcast of WOR. At that time, the station—by then owned by [[RKO General]]—flipped to one of New York's first [[Free-form radio|free-form]] [[radio format]]s, focusing on [[progressive rock (radio format)|progressive rock]]. In 1974, it adopted a [[Contemporary hit radio|top 40]] format. Amid declining listenership, the station briefly adopted an [[adult contemporary]] format modeled after Chicago sister [[WKSC-FM|WFYR]] in 1980.
Beginning in December 1980, after further declines in ratings under the format, the station began to transition to a format focused primarily on [[dance music]] (such as [[disco]]) and [[R&B]]; the format officially launched in August 1981, with the station becoming WRKS-FM, ''Kiss FM''. The new format was immediately successful; in 1983, the station became the first in New York City to regularly play [[hip hop]], further contributing to its success, a period as New York's highest-rated station, and a position as a prominent outlet for the [[golden age of hip hop]]. Amid RKO General's exit from the broadcasting industry in the late-1980s, the station was sold to Summit Communications Group.
WRKS was, in turn, acquired by Emmis Communications in 1994, forming the first [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] in New York City radio; prioritizing the urban contemporary format of new sister station [[WQHT]], Emmis flipped WRKS to [[urban adult contemporary]] while maintaining the ''Kiss'' branding. In 2012, Emmis leased the station to [[The Walt Disney Company]] under a 12-year [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA), flipping to [[sports radio]] as WEPN-FM, the flagship of the [[ESPN Radio]] network. In 2021, the LMA was transferred to [[Good Karma Brands]]. In August 2024, the LMA with Emmis expired; as a result, WEPN-FM's programming was migrated to the former [[WHSQ|WCBS]] under a new LMA with [[Audacy, Inc.|Audacy]], while WEPN-FM flipped to an automated hot adult contemporary format in the interim.
== History ==
=== Experimental operations (1939–1941) ===
In the late 1930s [[WOR (AM)|WOR]] (710 AM), then licensed to [[Newark, New Jersey]] and owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, Inc., a division of [[Macy's|R.H. Macy and Company]], became interested in the newly developed technology of FM radio. In the summer of 1939, WOR engineers, working with Bell Telephone engineers, set up an experimental 1,000-watt transmitter in Carteret, New Jersey, with the call sign W2XWI. In June 1940 experimental operations were moved to 444 Madison Avenue in New York City, now operating under the call sign W2XOR.<ref>[http://www.durenberger.com/documents/W71NY.pdf "W71NY New York, N. Y."], ''Pick-ups'', pages 18, 92 (durenberger.com)</ref>
=== As W71NY (1941–1943) ===
The [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) began permitting commercial operations by FM stations in 1941, and Bamberger's New York station was included among the first authorizations made for the original FM band.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/broadcasting20unse#page/n218/mode/1up "New FM Grants Bring Total to 29"], ''Broadcasting'', January 20, 1941, page 55.</ref> The station was given the call sign W71NY, which reflected its operation at 47.1 MHz.
=== As WBAM (1943–1948) ===
Effective November 1, 1943, the FCC updated its call letter policy to allow FM stations to have call signs similar to those used on the AM band. The station initially chose WOR-FM, but six weeks later changed it on December 14 to WBAM.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/broadcasting25unse#page/68/mode/1up "Decisions of the Federal Communications Commission"], ''Broadcasting'', December 20, 1943, page 68.</ref> In 1945 the FM band was moved to higher frequencies, and WBAM was initially reassigned to 96.5 MHz, before moving to 98.7 MHz in October 1947.<ref>[http://www.nyradioguide.com/cgi/info.cgi/WEPN-FM "Station Information for WEPN-FM"] (nyradioguide.com)</ref>
=== As WOR-FM (1948–1972) ===
[[File:WOR-FM 98-7 radio logo.jpg|thumb|150px|The WOR-FM logo from the late 1960s.]]
WBAM changed its call sign to WOR-FM on June 13, 1948.<ref>{{cite news|title=WBAM Now WOR-FM|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-06-14-BC.pdf#page=29|access-date=June 6, 2018|agency=Broadcasting|date=June 14, 1948|page=29}}</ref> Like most early FM stations, the station initially [[simulcast]] [[AM radio|AM]] [[sister station]] [[WOR (AM)|WOR]]. Macy's/Bamberger sold the WOR stations (which launched a [[WWOR-TV|television station]] in October 1949) to the [[General Tire and Rubber Company]] in 1952. General Tire reorganized its broadcasting division into [[RKO General]] in 1957. WOR-FM simulcast its AM sister station's [[full service (radio format)|full service]] Talk/MOR format.
In 1965, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] ordered AM stations in large markets to end continuous simulcasting on co-owned FM frequencies, a move made to spark development of FM stations as individual entities. On July 30, 1966, WOR-FM began running a [[freeform (radio format)|freeform]]-based [[progressive rock (radio format)|progressive rock]] format for most of its broadcast day, though the station continued to simulcast WOR radio's morning program ''[[Rambling with Gambling]]'' for a time afterwards. Under the leadership of legendary disc jockey [[Murray the K|Murray "the K" Kaufman]], and featuring other notable disc jockeys such as [[Scott Muni]] and [[William (Rosko) Mercer|Rosko]], the freeform format was the first of its kind in New York City radio. Later, Muni and Rosko departed for [[WNEW-FM]], where the same progressive format would become a huge success.
Initially, the [[Drake-Chenault]]-consulted, Top 40-formatted WOR-FM played new songs but in less of a rotation than [[WABC (AM)|WABC]], which was then New York's big Top 40 station. Some of the notable early personalities included Bill Brown (who was a holdover from the rock format and would leave for then-rock station [[WCBS-FM]] in 1969); Joe McCoy (who would later become general manager of WCBS-FM); [[Johnny Donovan]] (who would go to WABC in 1972 and remain there until his 2015 retirement); [[Tommy Edwards (announcer)]], later the longtime midday personality on Chicago Top 40 giant [[WLS (AM)]]; and Al Brady (who would program WABC in 1979), among others.
=== As WXLO (1972–1981) ===
{{Distinguish||text=Fitchburg, Massachusetts radio station [[WXLO]]}}
On October 23, 1972, RKO General changed the station's call sign to WXLO, and starting in April 1974, it became known as ''99X'', a reference to the WXLO frequency's close proximity on the FM dial to 99 MHz. This was a version of what was known as the "Q" format, so named because it was modeled after station KCBQ in San Diego. The format featured about 15-20 currents, with a heavy emphasis on constant contests and promotions.
In 1976, WXLO held a contest in which listeners had to guess the identity of six [[Beatles]] songs blended together in a sound montage. The Beatles montage was about three seconds in duration and contained one or two notes of each of the songs. They were "Hey Jude", "[[Got to Get You into My Life]]", "Day Tripper", "Come Together", "[[Do You Want to Know a Secret]]", and "Ticket to Ride". The station announced that the contest winner was from [[Tappan, New York]]. The prize was a [[Rock-Ola]] jukebox stocked with Beatles 45s. The station also once held an all-[[Elton John]] weekend. Listeners had to count how many Elton songs were played and win his ''[[Elton John's Greatest Hits|Greatest Hits Vol. 1]]'' album. Another weekend they held a "No Bee Gees" weekend, where they asked their listeners to request Bee Gee songs that they didn't want played. "I'll be sure to not get that on the air for you" a DJ said on that weekend.
WXLO evolved to a younger skewing Top 40 format and the "99X" moniker remained until late 1979, when it became "FM 99 WXLO". This iteration had decent ratings for a while, but by the spring of 1980, the ratings fell dramatically. RKO General phased out the Top 40 format, and brought in new program director Don Kelly from successful sister soft adult contemporary WFYR in Chicago in an attempt to duplicate that format's success on WXLO. The station at first attempted a call letter change back to WOR-FM, but an FCC challenge from competing crosstown WRFM (now [[WWPR-FM]]) prevented the call letter change from happening. Still, Kelly attempted to make the station the same adult contemporary format he had in Chicago. These changes did not gain any new listeners for WXLO, and ratings sank even lower. Later, Kelly adjusted the music and very slowly and gradually began mixing more disco and soul into the format. In the fall of 1980, Kelly, in consultation with RKO General, decided to go after [[WBLS-FM]]'s urban audience and WKTU's Rhythmic audience by bringing in new music director [[Barry Mayo]]. Mayo, shortly before his arrival, suggested a new format for the station to Kelly and then-general manager Lee S. Simonson after he received a surprising lambasting from his idol, WBLS Program Director [[Frankie Crocker]] (who would later become his rival). Mayo would later become WXLO's program director when Kelly left to start his own consultancy.
By December 1980, the station was leaning towards [[Disco]] and [[R&B]]. The station dropped [[American Top 40]] in January 1981. The evolution was gradual, and by May 1981, WXLO was nearly all rhythmic, playing almost all disco, soul, and rhythmic-friendly pop. Almost all the rock and AC crossovers were gone. By today's standards, this station would be called "[[Rhythmic contemporary|Rhythmic]] [[Contemporary hit radio|CHR]]", but that term did not exist back in 1981. Therefore, the station was classified as "[[Urban Contemporary]]" (which today would be considered as a strictly [[R&B]]-type format whether [[Hip hop music|Rap]] or [[Soul music|Soul]]).
=== As WRKS (1981–2012) ===
==== Enter "Kiss FM" (1981–1994) ====
[[File:WRKS-FM 1981 radio logo.png|thumb|WRKS logo from 1981 to 1994]]
In June 1981, the station was known on-air as "FM 99 WXLO making its move to 98.7". By the middle of July, the station had changed its call sign to WRKS-FM (the meaning of which originally referred to its being an RKO Station) and adopted the on-air brand ''98.7 Kiss FM'', as the station's transition to this new [[urban contemporary]] format was completed by that August. The first song on "Kiss FM" was ''Make That Move'' by [[Shalamar]].<ref>{{cite web |title=WXLO 98.7 New York – Launch of 98.7 Kiss FM – Charlie Burger / Mary Thomas – July 31 1981 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxbo7wJH6hs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/Sxbo7wJH6hs |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|via=YouTube |access-date=March 12, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Early on, WRKS played a great deal of [[R&B]] and [[dance music]], and became an almost instant hit with listeners, as its ratings skyrocketed from 22nd place to third. Notable Kiss FM Mixmasters at the time [[Shep Pettibone]] and, later, [[Tony Humphries (musician)|Tony Humphries]], were commissioned to create longer versions of current popular songs. Longtime [[urban contemporary]] leader [[WBLS]] was caught off-guard by the sudden rise of the new station, which represented its first direct competition in that format.
Around mid-1983, the station approached [[Afrika Bambaataa]] about an underground [[hip hop music]] show. He liked the idea and appointed [[DJ Jazzy Jay]], a fellow member of [[Universal Zulu Nation|Zulu Nation]]. He then passed the gig on to his cousin, [[DJ Red Alert]]. In Fall 1983, WRKS became the first station in the United States to play [[rap music]] in regular rotation. Also that year, non-R&B dance music and disco were phased out, as the station played strictly music catering mainly to an African-American audience. WBLS responded by hiring [[Mr. Magic]] to conduct a weekend rap show, which helped WBLS reach number-three in the ratings that year, beating out WRKS. Nevertheless, the station had made such strides in its first two-and-a-half years that it resulted in Barry Mayo being promoted as general manager, the first African-American to hold such a position in the RKO radio chain.
WRKS incorporated artists such as [[Kurtis Blow]], [[Whodini]], [[Run DMC]], [[Fat Boys]], [[LL Cool J]], and [[Public Enemy]] into the same rotation as such established acts as [[Ashford & Simpson]], [[Kool and the Gang]], and [[Gladys Knight]]. In 1986, [[Indianapolis]]-based [[Emmis Communications]] launched WQHT (then at 103.5 FM), which had an early emphasis on dance music, forcing WRKS and WBLS to add more dance music to their playlists again. In 1988, Mayo left to organize a new broadcasting company with Lee S. Simonson and Bill Pearson, and RKO appointed Charles Warfield (former general manager of WBLS) as the new general manager of WRKS. With Vinny Brown as the station's program director, WRKS became the No. 1 radio station in the largest media market in the world for six years right through the mid 1990s.
By the late 1980s, however, RKO General was forced out of the broadcasting business when the FCC began revoking its licenses to its radio and television stations in New York, [[Boston]] and Los Angeles because of gross misconduct and lack of candor on the part of its corporate parent, the [[General Tire]] and Rubber Company.<ref>[http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm RKO General, Inc. v. FCC (1981)-II. Invalid Bases of the FCC Decision; III. RKO's Lack of Candor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831093020/http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm |date=August 31, 2006 }}. Retrieved 11/27/06.</ref> Having already been stripped in 1982 of its license to [[WNAC-TV (defunct)|WNAC-TV]] in Boston, RKO was left with no choice but to break up its broadcasting unit.<ref>[http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm RKO General, Inc. v. FCC (1981)-(Intro) Opinion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831093020/http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/uscases/rko.htm |date=August 31, 2006 }}. Retrieved 12/09/06.</ref> In New York City, RKO's three stations were sold to different companies during a two-year period beginning in 1987. Two years after WOR-TV went to [[MCA Inc.|MCA]] (and renamed [[WWOR-TV]]), on June 26, 1989, RKO sold WRKS to the Summit Communications Group of [[Atlanta]].<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1988/BC-1988-12-12.pdf#page=70 "Summit gets WRKS-FM for $50 million."] ''[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]]'', December 12, 1988, pg. 66.</ref> Around the same time, WOR radio was sold to [[Buckley Broadcasting]].
That same year, [[WBLS]] lured on-air personality Mike Love (formerly of the original ''Kiss Wake-Up Club'') to their morning drive show. WRKS immediately formulated a new morning show featuring Ken "Spider" Webb and Jeff Foxx along with then-unknown [[Wendy Williams]]. (Foxx and Webb would continue on for the next several years, while Williams held various shifts on the station.)
For many years, WRKS was number one in the [[Arbitron]] ratings due to its [[hip hop]]-influenced format. WRKS was also the first radio station in the United States to embrace [[dancehall]] and [[reggae]] music by adding Dahved Levy to do a Sunday night reggae show with Sting International. The battle between WRKS and WBLS continued into the 1990s, but a major turning point occurred in the spring of 1994, when WQHT changed formats from dance music to primarily hip-hop by luring "Funk Master Flex" away from WRKS, who, at the time, was a fill-in DJ for "DJ Red Alert" when Red Alert was out on tour or making appearances, thus competing directly with WRKS. WRKS responded by adding "The Bomb Squad Mix Show", hosted by "The N.O." (also known as "The Native One") featuring "DJ Enuff", "DJ Ace", and "Supernatural the Freestyle Fanatic". The Bomb Squad began "breaking" hot new hip-hop artists and ushering in the "Golden Era of Hip Hop". The Bomb Squad was the first hip-hop mix show in the country to play the records of [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], [[Wu Tang Clan]], and [[Mobb Deep]]. The Bomb Squad introduced its signature "bomb dropping" whistle sound effect as they played exclusive new hip-hop music and produced fresh remixes not heard on other urban stations across the country. Leaning towards a younger demographic, the station formulated a new morning show featuring Wendy Williams, who was replaced by "The Native One" during her former 6 p.m.-10 p.m. weeknights shift.
Based on WRKS's success, several radio stations in other markets began to use the "[[KISS-FM (brand)|Kiss FM]]" moniker for branding the station itself or its format. In the case of WRKS, the branding was grandfathered even as [[Clear Channel Communications]] trademarked "Kiss FM" for its use on its [[mainstream top 40]] pop stations in the late 1990s, largely based on [[KIIS-FM]] in Los Angeles, whose "KIIS" name was trademarked by prior owner [[Gannett Company]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | title = Trademark registration 1540895 | access-date = May 3, 2011 | url = http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=73585355}}</ref>
==== "Smooth R&B and Classic Soul" (1994–2012) ====
In December 1994, WQHT's parent Emmis Communications took advantage of newly relaxed FCC ownership regulations and agreed to purchase WRKS from Summit, forming the market's first FM [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]]. WRKS subsequently stopped playing hip-hop and flipped to [[urban adult contemporary]] format using the slogan "Smooth R&B and Classic [[Soul music|Soul]]". The shift in format resulted in notable personalities associated with the previous format, such as Wendy Williams and Red Alert, moving from WRKS to WQHT. The new sound on WRKS was introduced by the station during its annual "Twelve Days of Kiss-mas" promotion during the Christmas holiday, and was fully implemented in January 1995. Soul music legend [[Barry White]] became the station's imaging voice and promotional face, and would remain in this role until his death in 2003.
In September 1995, WRKS hired another deep-voiced [[bass singer]], [[Isaac Hayes]], as its new morning show host, and later added Ashford & Simpson to helm its afternoon drive program. Funk musician [[Roger Troutman]] (of the band [[Zapp (band)|Zapp]]) and former disc jockey-turned-motivational speaker [[Leslie C. Brown|Les Brown]] also hosted programs on WRKS around this time.
WRKS's playlist for its first year consisted almost exclusively of songs from the 1960s and 1970s; after 1996, the station began reintroducing current R&B back into rotation. But in 1999, WRKS switched from a classic soul-based Urban AC format to a mostly current R&B format. That same year, [[Frankie Crocker]] was hired as an announcer and a weekend DJ. The station slowly began to reintroduce rap in 2000. When [[WWPR-FM]] was launched in March 2002, the station shifted back to classic soul. In 2003, [[Barry Mayo]] briefly returned as general manager for WRKS, WQHT and jazz-formatted WQCD (now [[WFAN-FM]]), and WRKS returned to its full-fledged Urban AC format.
In April 2001, WRKS became the New York home for the nationally syndicated ''[[Tom Joyner]] [[Tom Joyner Morning Show|Morning Show]]'', as Isaac Hayes chose not to renew his contract with the station; he remained for a few months to host the local segments within the program (known on the station as ''The Tom Joyner Morning Show with Isaac Hayes''). Joyner's first stint on WRKS lasted only two years; the station picked up his program again in the spring of 2011. In 2003, author and "relationship expert" [[Michael Baisden]] became host of the afternoon show, which later became syndicated nationally in January 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.urbanradionation.com/2012/04/michael-baisden-says-farewell-to-kiss.html|title=Michael Baisden Says 'FAREWELL TO KISS' FM in New York}}</ref>
In early September 2010, the slogan for the station, "Old School & Today's R&B", changed to "'80s, '90s & Today's R&B", which included dropping most pre-1979 titles. This would later change to "Classic Soul & Today's R&B", which would last until the station's demise in 2012.
Notable station radio personalities during the KISS-FM years included:
[https://firstandpen.com/espn-ny-radio-giving-up-98-7-black-media-should-revive-98-7-kiss-fm/ Kiss FM ERA Radio Personality]
* [[Barry Mayo]] (1981)
* [[Jazzy Jay]] (1983)
* [[Shep Pettibone]] (Mastermixer) (1981–1984)
* [[DJ Chuck Chillout]] (1982–1989)
* [[Tony Humphries (musician)|Tony Humphries]] (1982–1994)
* [[Wendy Williams]] (1989–1994)
* [[Ashford & Simpson]] (1995–1999)
* [[Roberta Flack]] (1995–1999)
* [[Isaac Hayes]] (1996–2001)
* [[D. L. Hughley]] (2009–2010)
* [[DJ Red Alert]] (Mastermixer) (1983–1994; 2007–2012)
* [[Tom Joyner]] (2001–2003; 2011–2012)
* [[Michael Baisden]] (2003–2012)
* [[Lil Nat]] (2010–2012)
* [[DJ Cocoa Chanelle]] (Mastermixer) (2011–2012)
* [[Ed Lover]] (2011–2012)
While WRKS had a long-standing repertoire among listeners in the African-American community alongside WBLS, it suffered an advertising revenue setback in later years. This was due in part to Arbitron switching to the [[portable people meter]] system to monitor ratings around 2010, which caused controversy among urban radio advertisers in major markets. In addition, an increasing debt load at Emmis's corporate level which forced the company to sell 80 percent of WRXP to Merlin Media in 2011 was also a major factor.
=== ESPN Radio (2012–2024) ===
[[File:The logo of ESPN New York, 98.7 FM.png|thumb|Logo as "ESPN New York" (2012-2024)]]
On April 26, 2012, [[the Walt Disney Company]] and Emmis Communications agreed to a 12-year-lease of the 98.7 FM frequency for an undisclosed price. YMF Media (which acquired WBLS' parent [[Inner City Broadcasting Corporation]]) acquired the intellectual property and trademarks of WRKS, primarily the New York City market rights to "Kiss-FM". As a result, Kiss signed off on the 30th with a goodbye show featuring all of the remaining airstaff, and went off the air at midnight, with "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" by [[Willie Hutch]] being the last song on Kiss. Immediately after, [[ESPN Radio]] began broadcasting on 98.7 FM under a [[local marketing agreement]] with the Walt Disney Company. Inner City/YMF also moved WBLS and its AM sister station [[WLIB]] into WRKS's former office/studio space at Emmis' New York broadcast facility.
The 98.7 frequency simulcast [[WEPN (AM)|WEPN]], the ESPN owned-and-operated AM station until September 7, 2012, when the AM station switched over to [[ESPN Deportes Radio]] full-time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Terranova |first1=Justin |title=ESPN Radio confirms move to FM |url=https://nypost.com/2012/04/26/espn-radio-confirms-move-to-fm/ |access-date=August 1, 2022 |newspaper=[[New York Post]] |date=April 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hajela |first1=Deepti |title=Format Changes Bring End to NYC Radio Rivalry |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/wrks-987-fm-radio-lease-espn-sports-talk-radio-rivalry-wbls-1075-over/2096460/ |access-date=August 1, 2022 |publisher=[[WNBC]] |date=April 26, 2012}}</ref> After the closure of ESPN Deportes Radio in 2019, the AM station became a passthrough for overflow programming, including the national ESPN Radio weekday schedule.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last1=Marchand |first1=Andrew |date=September 19, 2023 |title=ESPN New York ditching 98.7 FM signal in 2024 |url=https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/espn-new-york-ditching-98-7-fm-signal-in-2024/ |access-date=September 19, 2023 |newspaper=New York Post |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Marchand |first=Andrew |title=WFAN parent company reaches deal to license 880 AM to ESPN NY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5695816/2024/08/12/wfan-espn-new-york-880-am/ |access-date=August 12, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
The station's call sign changed to WEPN-FM on May 14, 2012, to match the AM call sign. YMF Media then transferred the [[WRKS]] call sign to the ESPN Radio affiliate in the [[Jackson, Mississippi]] area.
In December 2021, [[Beaver Dam, Wisconsin]]-based [[Good Karma Brands]]—an operator of ESPN Radio affiliates in other markets—announced that it would acquire operational control of WEPN-FM from Disney/ESPN, with Good Karma assuming the remainder of Disney's lease agreement with Emmis Communications; Emmis maintains ownership of the station's license. In the same transaction, Good Karma purchased full ownership of WEPN (AM) and ESPN Radio-owned stations in [[WMVP|Chicago]] and [[KSPN (AM)|Los Angeles]] from Disney.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hauer|first=Sarah|title=Good Karma Brands is acquiring ESPN radio stations in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2021/12/14/good-karma-brands-acquiring-espn-stations-new-york-los-angeles-milwaukee/6506446001/|access-date=December 14, 2021|website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|language=en-US}}</ref>
=== TJ 98.7 A Pop Up Radio Station (2024–present) ===
On September 19, 2023, GKB owner Craig Karmazin told the ''[[New York Post]]'' that it would not renew the LMA with Emmis when it expires and would thus relinquish the 98.7 FM frequency on August 31, 2024. GKB had made an offer to acquire WEPN-FM outright, but talks with Emmis were unproductive.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2023 |title=Ahead of Station Sale, Good Karma To End LMA Of WEPN-FM And Move 'ESPN New York' To AM Next Year. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/ahead-of-station-sale-good-karma-to-end-lma-of-wepn-fm-and-move-espn/article_63de8d96-5716-11ee-93b6-9fab41b97f18.html |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref> The original plan was to consolidate WEPN-FM's local programming onto 1050 AM, and direct users to the ESPN New York digital platform for overflow programming.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=August 1, 2024 |title=With No Sale Imminent, New York's 'ESPN 98.7' Will Give Way To Music In Weeks. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/free/with-no-sale-imminent-new-york-s-espn-98-7-will-give-way-to-music/article_1bc9f44e-4fce-11ef-9f2f-8b077aa4c2ad.html |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref> However, on August 12, 2024, GKB instead announced that it would enter into an LMA with [[Audacy, Inc.|Audacy]]'s 880 WCBS beginning August 26, replacing its all-news format with WEPN-FM's former programming as [[WHSQ]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Good Karma Brands To LMA 880 WCBS From Audacy Following 98.7 Sign-Off |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/277824/277824/ |access-date=August 12, 2024 |website=RadioInsight |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
After the expiration of the LMA, WEPN-FM's operations would be assumed by Emmis, with reported plans for the station to return to a music-based format, pending the search for a new operator or the outright sale of the station.<ref name=":2" /> At midnight on August 31, 2024, WEPN-FM dropped its ESPN Radio programming and flipped to [[hot adult contemporary]] as ''TJ 98.7.'' Its namesake is TJ Taormina—a former cast member and co-host of [[WHTZ]]'s [[Elvis Duran and the Morning Show|''Elvis Duran and the Morning Show'']]; his syndicated morning show ''The TJ Show'' made its New York premiere on the station. The format is being billed as a "[[Pop-up retail|pop-up]]" station, and is being [[Broadcast automation|automated]] and [[Voice-tracking|voice-tracked]] using a [[Cloud computing|cloud]] platform. It is not yet known if the ''TJ'' format is a short term [[Stunting (broadcasting)|stunt]], or will serve as a long-term interim format while Emmis shops the station.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2024 |title=Emmis Launches TJ 98.7 "The Pop Up Radio Station" New York |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/279594/emmis-launches-tj-98-7-the-pop-up-radio-station-new-york/ |access-date=September 4, 2024 |website=RadioInsight |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 3, 2024 |title=News Bites: TJ98.7,' RAB, Chris Broussard. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/free/news-bites-tj98-7-rab-chris-broussard/article_b16bb84c-6a32-11ef-924b-3f607a74344b.html |access-date=September 4, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 31, 2024 |title='TJ' Begins Stunting on Emmis' 98.7 NYC FM Following ESPN Exit |url=https://radioink.com/2024/08/31/tj-begins-stunting-on-emmis-98-7-nyc-fm-following-espn-exit/ |access-date=September 4, 2024 |website=Radio Ink |language=en-US}}</ref>
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{FM station data|63781|WEPN}}
* [https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=82973 FCC History cards for WEPN-FM] (covering W71NY / WOR-FM / WBAM / WOR-FM / WXLO / WRKS-FM from 1940 to 1981)
* [https://www.udel.edu/nero/Radio/readings/urban.html History of Urban Contemporary]
* [http://www.nyradioguide.com/cgi/info.cgi/WEPN-FM New York Radio Guide]
* [https://worfm.com/ Tribute site to WOR-FM and WXLO]
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'''WEPN-FM''' (98.7 [[FM broadcasting|FM]], "TJ 98.7") is a radio station in [[New York City]]. Owned by [[Emmis Communications]], it broadcasts a [[hot adult contemporary]] format. Its transmitter is located at the [[Empire State Building]].
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Notable station radio personalities during the KISS-FM years included:
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* [[Barry Mayo]] (1981)
* [[Jazzy Jay]] (1983)
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In December 2021, [[Beaver Dam, Wisconsin]]-based [[Good Karma Brands]]—an operator of ESPN Radio affiliates in other markets—announced that it would acquire operational control of WEPN-FM from Disney/ESPN, with Good Karma assuming the remainder of Disney's lease agreement with Emmis Communications; Emmis maintains ownership of the station's license. In the same transaction, Good Karma purchased full ownership of WEPN (AM) and ESPN Radio-owned stations in [[WMVP|Chicago]] and [[KSPN (AM)|Los Angeles]] from Disney.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hauer|first=Sarah|title=Good Karma Brands is acquiring ESPN radio stations in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2021/12/14/good-karma-brands-acquiring-espn-stations-new-york-los-angeles-milwaukee/6506446001/|access-date=December 14, 2021|website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|language=en-US}}</ref>
-=== End of ESPN Radio LMA, ''TJ 98.7'' (2024–present) ===
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On September 19, 2023, GKB owner Craig Karmazin told the ''[[New York Post]]'' that it would not renew the LMA with Emmis when it expires and would thus relinquish the 98.7 FM frequency on August 31, 2024. GKB had made an offer to acquire WEPN-FM outright, but talks with Emmis were unproductive.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2023 |title=Ahead of Station Sale, Good Karma To End LMA Of WEPN-FM And Move 'ESPN New York' To AM Next Year. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/ahead-of-station-sale-good-karma-to-end-lma-of-wepn-fm-and-move-espn/article_63de8d96-5716-11ee-93b6-9fab41b97f18.html |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref> The original plan was to consolidate WEPN-FM's local programming onto 1050 AM, and direct users to the ESPN New York digital platform for overflow programming.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=August 1, 2024 |title=With No Sale Imminent, New York's 'ESPN 98.7' Will Give Way To Music In Weeks. |url=https://www.insideradio.com/free/with-no-sale-imminent-new-york-s-espn-98-7-will-give-way-to-music/article_1bc9f44e-4fce-11ef-9f2f-8b077aa4c2ad.html |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Insideradio.com |language=en}}</ref> However, on August 12, 2024, GKB instead announced that it would enter into an LMA with [[Audacy, Inc.|Audacy]]'s 880 WCBS beginning August 26, replacing its all-news format with WEPN-FM's former programming as [[WHSQ]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Good Karma Brands To LMA 880 WCBS From Audacy Following 98.7 Sign-Off |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/277824/277824/ |access-date=August 12, 2024 |website=RadioInsight |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
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color: #202122;">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">First air date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1941<span class="noprint"> (83 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1941</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Former call signs</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>W71NY (1941–1943)</li><li>WOR-FM (1943)</li><li>WBAM (1943–1948)</li><li>WOR-FM (1948–1972)</li><li>WXLO (1972–1981)</li><li>WRKS-FM (1981–2012)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Call_sign" title="Call sign">Call sign</a> meaning</div></th><td class="infobox-data">ESPN Radio]] (previous format)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef; color: #202122;">Technical information<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Licensing authority</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/FCC" class="mw-redirect" title="FCC">FCC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Facility_ID" title="Facility ID">Facility ID</a></th><td class="infobox-data">63781</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_North_American_broadcast_station_classes" title="List of North American broadcast station classes">Class</a></th><td class="infobox-data category">B</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Effective_radiated_power" title="Effective radiated power">ERP</a></th><td class="infobox-data">6,000 watts</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Height_above_average_terrain" title="Height above average terrain">HAAT</a></th><td class="infobox-data">415 meters (1,362 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Transmitter coordinates</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=WEPN-FM&params=40.748_N_73.986_W_type:landmark_region:US-NY_source:FCC"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">40°44′53″N</span> <span class="longitude">73°59′10″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">40.748°N 73.986°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">40.748; 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<p><b>WEPN-FM</b> (98.7 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM</a>, "TJ 98.7") is a radio station in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. Owned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emmis_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmis Communications">Emmis Communications</a>, it broadcasts a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hot_adult_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot adult contemporary">hot adult contemporary</a> format. Its transmitter is located at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Empire_State_Building" title="Empire State Building">Empire State Building</a>.
</p><p>The station originally began operations as an experimental FM station in 1939, spun off from 710 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">WOR</a>. It then became one of the among the first licensed commercial FM stations in 1941. Until 1965, when the FCC prohibited this practice in larger markets, the station served as an FM simulcast of WOR. At that time, the station—by then owned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/RKO_General" title="RKO General">RKO General</a>—flipped to one of New York's first <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Free-form_radio" title="Free-form radio">free-form</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_format" title="Radio format">radio formats</a>, focusing on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Progressive_rock_(radio_format)" title="Progressive rock (radio format)">progressive rock</a>. In 1974, it adopted a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio" title="Contemporary hit radio">top 40</a> format. Amid declining listenership, the station briefly adopted an <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Adult_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult contemporary">adult contemporary</a> format modeled after Chicago sister <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKSC-FM" title="WKSC-FM">WFYR</a> in 1980.
</p><p>Beginning in December 1980, after further declines in ratings under the format, the station began to transition to a format focused primarily on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance music</a> (such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Disco" title="Disco">disco</a>) and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/R%26B" class="mw-redirect" title="R&B">R&B</a>; the format officially launched in August 1981, with the station becoming WRKS-FM, <i>Kiss FM</i>. The new format was immediately successful; in 1983, the station became the first in New York City to regularly play <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop">hip hop</a>, further contributing to its success, a period as New York's highest-rated station, and a position as a prominent outlet for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Golden_age_of_hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden age of hip hop">golden age of hip hop</a>. Amid RKO General's exit from the broadcasting industry in the late-1980s, the station was sold to Summit Communications Group.
</p><p>WRKS was, in turn, acquired by Emmis Communications in 1994, forming the first <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Duopoly_(broadcasting)" title="Duopoly (broadcasting)">duopoly</a> in New York City radio; prioritizing the urban contemporary format of new sister station <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQHT" title="WQHT">WQHT</a>, Emmis flipped WRKS to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Urban_adult_contemporary" title="Urban adult contemporary">urban adult contemporary</a> while maintaining the <i>Kiss</i> branding. In 2012, Emmis leased the station to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">The Walt Disney Company</a> under a 12-year <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Local_marketing_agreement" title="Local marketing agreement">local marketing agreement</a> (LMA), flipping to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sports_radio" title="Sports radio">sports radio</a> as WEPN-FM, the flagship of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ESPN_Radio" title="ESPN Radio">ESPN Radio</a> network. In 2021, the LMA was transferred to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Good_Karma_Brands" title="Good Karma Brands">Good Karma Brands</a>. In August 2024, the LMA with Emmis expired; as a result, WEPN-FM's programming was migrated to the former <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHSQ" title="WHSQ">WCBS</a> under a new LMA with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Audacy,_Inc." title="Audacy, Inc.">Audacy</a>, while WEPN-FM flipped to an automated hot adult contemporary format in the interim.
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#As_W71NY_(1941–1943)"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">As W71NY (1941–1943)</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#"Smooth_R&B_and_Classic_Soul"_(1994–2012)"><span class="tocnumber">1.6.2</span> <span class="toctext">"Smooth R&B and Classic Soul" (1994–2012)</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#TJ_98.7_A_Pop_Up_Radio_Station_(2024–present)"><span class="tocnumber">1.8</span> <span class="toctext">TJ 98.7 A Pop Up Radio Station (2024–present)</span></a></li>
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<p>In the late 1930s <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">WOR</a> (710 AM), then licensed to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark, New Jersey</a> and owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, Inc., a division of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Macy%27s" title="Macy's">R.H. Macy and Company</a>, became interested in the newly developed technology of FM radio. In the summer of 1939, WOR engineers, working with Bell Telephone engineers, set up an experimental 1,000-watt transmitter in Carteret, New Jersey, with the call sign W2XWI. In June 1940 experimental operations were moved to 444 Madison Avenue in New York City, now operating under the call sign W2XOR.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) began permitting commercial operations by FM stations in 1941, and Bamberger's New York station was included among the first authorizations made for the original FM band.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The station was given the call sign W71NY, which reflected its operation at 47.1 MHz.
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<p>Effective November 1, 1943, the FCC updated its call letter policy to allow FM stations to have call signs similar to those used on the AM band. The station initially chose WOR-FM, but six weeks later changed it on December 14 to WBAM.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1945 the FM band was moved to higher frequencies, and WBAM was initially reassigned to 96.5 MHz, before moving to 98.7 MHz in October 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>WBAM changed its call sign to WOR-FM on June 13, 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like most early FM stations, the station initially <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Simulcast" title="Simulcast">simulcast</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/AM_radio" class="mw-redirect" title="AM radio">AM</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sister_station" title="Sister station">sister station</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">WOR</a>. Macy's/Bamberger sold the WOR stations (which launched a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWOR-TV" title="WWOR-TV">television station</a> in October 1949) to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/General_Tire_and_Rubber_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="General Tire and Rubber Company">General Tire and Rubber Company</a> in 1952. General Tire reorganized its broadcasting division into <a href="/enwiki/wiki/RKO_General" title="RKO General">RKO General</a> in 1957. WOR-FM simulcast its AM sister station's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Full_service_(radio_format)" class="mw-redirect" title="Full service (radio format)">full service</a> Talk/MOR format.
</p><p>In 1965, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> ordered AM stations in large markets to end continuous simulcasting on co-owned FM frequencies, a move made to spark development of FM stations as individual entities. On July 30, 1966, WOR-FM began running a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Freeform_(radio_format)" class="mw-redirect" title="Freeform (radio format)">freeform</a>-based <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Progressive_rock_(radio_format)" title="Progressive rock (radio format)">progressive rock</a> format for most of its broadcast day, though the station continued to simulcast WOR radio's morning program <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rambling_with_Gambling" title="Rambling with Gambling">Rambling with Gambling</a></i> for a time afterwards. Under the leadership of legendary disc jockey <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Murray_the_K" title="Murray the K">Murray "the K" Kaufman</a>, and featuring other notable disc jockeys such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Scott_Muni" title="Scott Muni">Scott Muni</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/William_(Rosko)_Mercer" title="William (Rosko) Mercer">Rosko</a>, the freeform format was the first of its kind in New York City radio. Later, Muni and Rosko departed for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNEW-FM" title="WNEW-FM">WNEW-FM</a>, where the same progressive format would become a huge success.
</p><p>Initially, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Drake-Chenault" title="Drake-Chenault">Drake-Chenault</a>-consulted, Top 40-formatted WOR-FM played new songs but in less of a rotation than <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a>, which was then New York's big Top 40 station. Some of the notable early personalities included Bill Brown (who was a holdover from the rock format and would leave for then-rock station <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WCBS-FM" title="WCBS-FM">WCBS-FM</a> in 1969); Joe McCoy (who would later become general manager of WCBS-FM); <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Johnny_Donovan" title="Johnny Donovan">Johnny Donovan</a> (who would go to WABC in 1972 and remain there until his 2015 retirement); <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tommy_Edwards_(announcer)" title="Tommy Edwards (announcer)">Tommy Edwards (announcer)</a>, later the longtime midday personality on Chicago Top 40 giant <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLS_(AM)" title="WLS (AM)">WLS (AM)</a>; and Al Brady (who would program WABC in 1979), among others.
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<p>On October 23, 1972, RKO General changed the station's call sign to WXLO, and starting in April 1974, it became known as <i>99X</i>, a reference to the WXLO frequency's close proximity on the FM dial to 99 MHz. This was a version of what was known as the "Q" format, so named because it was modeled after station KCBQ in San Diego. The format featured about 15-20 currents, with a heavy emphasis on constant contests and promotions.
</p><p>In 1976, WXLO held a contest in which listeners had to guess the identity of six <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Beatles" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatles">Beatles</a> songs blended together in a sound montage. The Beatles montage was about three seconds in duration and contained one or two notes of each of the songs. They were "Hey Jude", "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Got_to_Get_You_into_My_Life" title="Got to Get You into My Life">Got to Get You into My Life</a>", "Day Tripper", "Come Together", "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Do_You_Want_to_Know_a_Secret" title="Do You Want to Know a Secret">Do You Want to Know a Secret</a>", and "Ticket to Ride". The station announced that the contest winner was from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tappan,_New_York" title="Tappan, New York">Tappan, New York</a>. The prize was a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rock-Ola" title="Rock-Ola">Rock-Ola</a> jukebox stocked with Beatles 45s. The station also once held an all-<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John">Elton John</a> weekend. Listeners had to count how many Elton songs were played and win his <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Elton_John%27s_Greatest_Hits" class="mw-redirect" title="Elton John's Greatest Hits">Greatest Hits Vol. 1</a></i> album. Another weekend they held a "No Bee Gees" weekend, where they asked their listeners to request Bee Gee songs that they didn't want played. "I'll be sure to not get that on the air for you" a DJ said on that weekend.
</p><p>WXLO evolved to a younger skewing Top 40 format and the "99X" moniker remained until late 1979, when it became "FM 99 WXLO". This iteration had decent ratings for a while, but by the spring of 1980, the ratings fell dramatically. RKO General phased out the Top 40 format, and brought in new program director Don Kelly from successful sister soft adult contemporary WFYR in Chicago in an attempt to duplicate that format's success on WXLO. The station at first attempted a call letter change back to WOR-FM, but an FCC challenge from competing crosstown WRFM (now <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">WWPR-FM</a>) prevented the call letter change from happening. Still, Kelly attempted to make the station the same adult contemporary format he had in Chicago. These changes did not gain any new listeners for WXLO, and ratings sank even lower. Later, Kelly adjusted the music and very slowly and gradually began mixing more disco and soul into the format. In the fall of 1980, Kelly, in consultation with RKO General, decided to go after <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBLS-FM" class="mw-redirect" title="WBLS-FM">WBLS-FM</a>'s urban audience and WKTU's Rhythmic audience by bringing in new music director <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barry_Mayo" title="Barry Mayo">Barry Mayo</a>. Mayo, shortly before his arrival, suggested a new format for the station to Kelly and then-general manager Lee S. Simonson after he received a surprising lambasting from his idol, WBLS Program Director <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frankie_Crocker" title="Frankie Crocker">Frankie Crocker</a> (who would later become his rival). Mayo would later become WXLO's program director when Kelly left to start his own consultancy.
</p><p>By December 1980, the station was leaning towards <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Disco" title="Disco">Disco</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/R%26B" class="mw-redirect" title="R&B">R&B</a>. The station dropped <a href="/enwiki/wiki/American_Top_40" title="American Top 40">American Top 40</a> in January 1981. The evolution was gradual, and by May 1981, WXLO was nearly all rhythmic, playing almost all disco, soul, and rhythmic-friendly pop. Almost all the rock and AC crossovers were gone. By today's standards, this station would be called "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rhythmic_contemporary" title="Rhythmic contemporary">Rhythmic</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio" title="Contemporary hit radio">CHR</a>", but that term did not exist back in 1981. Therefore, the station was classified as "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Urban_Contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban Contemporary">Urban Contemporary</a>" (which today would be considered as a strictly <a href="/enwiki/wiki/R%26B" class="mw-redirect" title="R&B">R&B</a>-type format whether <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">Rap</a> or <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">Soul</a>).
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<p>In June 1981, the station was known on-air as "FM 99 WXLO making its move to 98.7". By the middle of July, the station had changed its call sign to WRKS-FM (the meaning of which originally referred to its being an RKO Station) and adopted the on-air brand <i>98.7 Kiss FM</i>, as the station's transition to this new <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Urban_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban contemporary">urban contemporary</a> format was completed by that August. The first song on "Kiss FM" was <i>Make That Move</i> by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Shalamar" title="Shalamar">Shalamar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early on, WRKS played a great deal of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/R%26B" class="mw-redirect" title="R&B">R&B</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance music</a>, and became an almost instant hit with listeners, as its ratings skyrocketed from 22nd place to third. Notable Kiss FM Mixmasters at the time <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Shep_Pettibone" title="Shep Pettibone">Shep Pettibone</a> and, later, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tony_Humphries_(musician)" title="Tony Humphries (musician)">Tony Humphries</a>, were commissioned to create longer versions of current popular songs. Longtime <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Urban_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban contemporary">urban contemporary</a> leader <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBLS" title="WBLS">WBLS</a> was caught off-guard by the sudden rise of the new station, which represented its first direct competition in that format.
</p><p>Around mid-1983, the station approached <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Afrika_Bambaataa" title="Afrika Bambaataa">Afrika Bambaataa</a> about an underground <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">hip hop music</a> show. He liked the idea and appointed <a href="/enwiki/wiki/DJ_Jazzy_Jay" class="mw-redirect" title="DJ Jazzy Jay">DJ Jazzy Jay</a>, a fellow member of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Universal_Zulu_Nation" title="Universal Zulu Nation">Zulu Nation</a>. He then passed the gig on to his cousin, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/DJ_Red_Alert" class="mw-redirect" title="DJ Red Alert">DJ Red Alert</a>. In Fall 1983, WRKS became the first station in the United States to play <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rap_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Rap music">rap music</a> in regular rotation. Also that year, non-R&B dance music and disco were phased out, as the station played strictly music catering mainly to an African-American audience. WBLS responded by hiring <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mr._Magic" title="Mr. Magic">Mr. Magic</a> to conduct a weekend rap show, which helped WBLS reach number-three in the ratings that year, beating out WRKS. Nevertheless, the station had made such strides in its first two-and-a-half years that it resulted in Barry Mayo being promoted as general manager, the first African-American to hold such a position in the RKO radio chain.
</p><p>WRKS incorporated artists such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kurtis_Blow" title="Kurtis Blow">Kurtis Blow</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Whodini" title="Whodini">Whodini</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Run_DMC" class="mw-redirect" title="Run DMC">Run DMC</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fat_Boys" class="mw-redirect" title="Fat Boys">Fat Boys</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/LL_Cool_J" title="LL Cool J">LL Cool J</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Public_Enemy" title="Public Enemy">Public Enemy</a> into the same rotation as such established acts as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ashford_%26_Simpson" title="Ashford & Simpson">Ashford & Simpson</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kool_and_the_Gang" class="mw-redirect" title="Kool and the Gang">Kool and the Gang</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gladys_Knight" title="Gladys Knight">Gladys Knight</a>. In 1986, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>-based <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emmis_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmis Communications">Emmis Communications</a> launched WQHT (then at 103.5 FM), which had an early emphasis on dance music, forcing WRKS and WBLS to add more dance music to their playlists again. In 1988, Mayo left to organize a new broadcasting company with Lee S. Simonson and Bill Pearson, and RKO appointed Charles Warfield (former general manager of WBLS) as the new general manager of WRKS. With Vinny Brown as the station's program director, WRKS became the No. 1 radio station in the largest media market in the world for six years right through the mid 1990s.
</p><p>By the late 1980s, however, RKO General was forced out of the broadcasting business when the FCC began revoking its licenses to its radio and television stations in New York, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> and Los Angeles because of gross misconduct and lack of candor on the part of its corporate parent, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/General_Tire" title="General Tire">General Tire</a> and Rubber Company.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Having already been stripped in 1982 of its license to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNAC-TV_(defunct)" class="mw-redirect" title="WNAC-TV (defunct)">WNAC-TV</a> in Boston, RKO was left with no choice but to break up its broadcasting unit.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In New York City, RKO's three stations were sold to different companies during a two-year period beginning in 1987. Two years after WOR-TV went to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/MCA_Inc." title="MCA Inc.">MCA</a> (and renamed <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWOR-TV" title="WWOR-TV">WWOR-TV</a>), on June 26, 1989, RKO sold WRKS to the Summit Communications Group of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around the same time, WOR radio was sold to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Buckley_Broadcasting" title="Buckley Broadcasting">Buckley Broadcasting</a>.
</p><p>That same year, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBLS" title="WBLS">WBLS</a> lured on-air personality Mike Love (formerly of the original <i>Kiss Wake-Up Club</i>) to their morning drive show. WRKS immediately formulated a new morning show featuring Ken "Spider" Webb and Jeff Foxx along with then-unknown <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wendy_Williams" title="Wendy Williams">Wendy Williams</a>. (Foxx and Webb would continue on for the next several years, while Williams held various shifts on the station.)
</p><p>For many years, WRKS was number one in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Arbitron" class="mw-redirect" title="Arbitron">Arbitron</a> ratings due to its <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop">hip hop</a>-influenced format. WRKS was also the first radio station in the United States to embrace <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dancehall" title="Dancehall">dancehall</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae">reggae</a> music by adding Dahved Levy to do a Sunday night reggae show with Sting International. The battle between WRKS and WBLS continued into the 1990s, but a major turning point occurred in the spring of 1994, when WQHT changed formats from dance music to primarily hip-hop by luring "Funk Master Flex" away from WRKS, who, at the time, was a fill-in DJ for "DJ Red Alert" when Red Alert was out on tour or making appearances, thus competing directly with WRKS. WRKS responded by adding "The Bomb Squad Mix Show", hosted by "The N.O." (also known as "The Native One") featuring "DJ Enuff", "DJ Ace", and "Supernatural the Freestyle Fanatic". The Bomb Squad began "breaking" hot new hip-hop artists and ushering in the "Golden Era of Hip Hop". The Bomb Squad was the first hip-hop mix show in the country to play the records of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Notorious_B.I.G." title="The Notorious B.I.G.">The Notorious B.I.G.</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wu_Tang_Clan" class="mw-redirect" title="Wu Tang Clan">Wu Tang Clan</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mobb_Deep" title="Mobb Deep">Mobb Deep</a>. The Bomb Squad introduced its signature "bomb dropping" whistle sound effect as they played exclusive new hip-hop music and produced fresh remixes not heard on other urban stations across the country. Leaning towards a younger demographic, the station formulated a new morning show featuring Wendy Williams, who was replaced by "The Native One" during her former 6 p.m.-10 p.m. weeknights shift.
</p><p>Based on WRKS's success, several radio stations in other markets began to use the "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/KISS-FM_(brand)" title="KISS-FM (brand)">Kiss FM</a>" moniker for branding the station itself or its format. In the case of WRKS, the branding was grandfathered even as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Clear Channel Communications">Clear Channel Communications</a> trademarked "Kiss FM" for its use on its <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mainstream_top_40" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainstream top 40">mainstream top 40</a> pop stations in the late 1990s, largely based on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/KIIS-FM" title="KIIS-FM">KIIS-FM</a> in Los Angeles, whose "KIIS" name was trademarked by prior owner <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gannett_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Gannett Company">Gannett Company</a> in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>In December 1994, WQHT's parent Emmis Communications took advantage of newly relaxed FCC ownership regulations and agreed to purchase WRKS from Summit, forming the market's first FM <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Duopoly_(broadcasting)" title="Duopoly (broadcasting)">duopoly</a>. WRKS subsequently stopped playing hip-hop and flipped to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Urban_adult_contemporary" title="Urban adult contemporary">urban adult contemporary</a> format using the slogan "Smooth R&B and Classic <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">Soul</a>". The shift in format resulted in notable personalities associated with the previous format, such as Wendy Williams and Red Alert, moving from WRKS to WQHT. The new sound on WRKS was introduced by the station during its annual "Twelve Days of Kiss-mas" promotion during the Christmas holiday, and was fully implemented in January 1995. Soul music legend <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barry_White" title="Barry White">Barry White</a> became the station's imaging voice and promotional face, and would remain in this role until his death in 2003.
</p><p>In September 1995, WRKS hired another deep-voiced <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bass_singer" class="mw-redirect" title="Bass singer">bass singer</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Isaac_Hayes" title="Isaac Hayes">Isaac Hayes</a>, as its new morning show host, and later added Ashford & Simpson to helm its afternoon drive program. Funk musician <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Roger_Troutman" title="Roger Troutman">Roger Troutman</a> (of the band <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Zapp_(band)" title="Zapp (band)">Zapp</a>) and former disc jockey-turned-motivational speaker <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Leslie_C._Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie C. Brown">Les Brown</a> also hosted programs on WRKS around this time.
</p><p>WRKS's playlist for its first year consisted almost exclusively of songs from the 1960s and 1970s; after 1996, the station began reintroducing current R&B back into rotation. But in 1999, WRKS switched from a classic soul-based Urban AC format to a mostly current R&B format. That same year, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frankie_Crocker" title="Frankie Crocker">Frankie Crocker</a> was hired as an announcer and a weekend DJ. The station slowly began to reintroduce rap in 2000. When <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">WWPR-FM</a> was launched in March 2002, the station shifted back to classic soul. In 2003, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barry_Mayo" title="Barry Mayo">Barry Mayo</a> briefly returned as general manager for WRKS, WQHT and jazz-formatted WQCD (now <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN-FM" title="WFAN-FM">WFAN-FM</a>), and WRKS returned to its full-fledged Urban AC format.
</p><p>In April 2001, WRKS became the New York home for the nationally syndicated <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tom_Joyner" title="Tom Joyner">Tom Joyner</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tom_Joyner_Morning_Show" title="Tom Joyner Morning Show">Morning Show</a></i>, as Isaac Hayes chose not to renew his contract with the station; he remained for a few months to host the local segments within the program (known on the station as <i>The Tom Joyner Morning Show with Isaac Hayes</i>). Joyner's first stint on WRKS lasted only two years; the station picked up his program again in the spring of 2011. In 2003, author and "relationship expert" <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Michael_Baisden" title="Michael Baisden">Michael Baisden</a> became host of the afternoon show, which later became syndicated nationally in January 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In early September 2010, the slogan for the station, "Old School & Today's R&B", changed to "'80s, '90s & Today's R&B", which included dropping most pre-1979 titles. This would later change to "Classic Soul & Today's R&B", which would last until the station's demise in 2012.
</p><p>Notable station radio personalities during the KISS-FM years included:
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barry_Mayo" title="Barry Mayo">Barry Mayo</a> (1981)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jazzy_Jay" title="Jazzy Jay">Jazzy Jay</a> (1983)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Shep_Pettibone" title="Shep Pettibone">Shep Pettibone</a> (Mastermixer) (1981–1984)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/DJ_Chuck_Chillout" title="DJ Chuck Chillout">DJ Chuck Chillout</a> (1982–1989)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tony_Humphries_(musician)" title="Tony Humphries (musician)">Tony Humphries</a> (1982–1994)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wendy_Williams" title="Wendy Williams">Wendy Williams</a> (1989–1994)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ashford_%26_Simpson" title="Ashford & Simpson">Ashford & Simpson</a> (1995–1999)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a> (1995–1999)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Isaac_Hayes" title="Isaac Hayes">Isaac Hayes</a> (1996–2001)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/D._L._Hughley" title="D. L. Hughley">D. L. Hughley</a> (2009–2010)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/DJ_Red_Alert" class="mw-redirect" title="DJ Red Alert">DJ Red Alert</a> (Mastermixer) (1983–1994; 2007–2012)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tom_Joyner" title="Tom Joyner">Tom Joyner</a> (2001–2003; 2011–2012)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Michael_Baisden" title="Michael Baisden">Michael Baisden</a> (2003–2012)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lil_Nat" title="Lil Nat">Lil Nat</a> (2010–2012)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/DJ_Cocoa_Chanelle" title="DJ Cocoa Chanelle">DJ Cocoa Chanelle</a> (Mastermixer) (2011–2012)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ed_Lover" title="Ed Lover">Ed Lover</a> (2011–2012)</li></ul>
<p>While WRKS had a long-standing repertoire among listeners in the African-American community alongside WBLS, it suffered an advertising revenue setback in later years. This was due in part to Arbitron switching to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Portable_people_meter" class="mw-redirect" title="Portable people meter">portable people meter</a> system to monitor ratings around 2010, which caused controversy among urban radio advertisers in major markets. In addition, an increasing debt load at Emmis's corporate level which forced the company to sell 80 percent of WRXP to Merlin Media in 2011 was also a major factor.
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<p>On April 26, 2012, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">the Walt Disney Company</a> and Emmis Communications agreed to a 12-year-lease of the 98.7 FM frequency for an undisclosed price. YMF Media (which acquired WBLS' parent <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Inner_City_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Inner City Broadcasting Corporation">Inner City Broadcasting Corporation</a>) acquired the intellectual property and trademarks of WRKS, primarily the New York City market rights to "Kiss-FM". As a result, Kiss signed off on the 30th with a goodbye show featuring all of the remaining airstaff, and went off the air at midnight, with "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Willie_Hutch" title="Willie Hutch">Willie Hutch</a> being the last song on Kiss. Immediately after, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ESPN_Radio" title="ESPN Radio">ESPN Radio</a> began broadcasting on 98.7 FM under a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Local_marketing_agreement" title="Local marketing agreement">local marketing agreement</a> with the Walt Disney Company. Inner City/YMF also moved WBLS and its AM sister station <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLIB" title="WLIB">WLIB</a> into WRKS's former office/studio space at Emmis' New York broadcast facility.
</p><p>The 98.7 frequency simulcast <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WEPN_(AM)" title="WEPN (AM)">WEPN</a>, the ESPN owned-and-operated AM station until September 7, 2012, when the AM station switched over to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ESPN_Deportes_Radio" title="ESPN Deportes Radio">ESPN Deportes Radio</a> full-time.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the closure of ESPN Deportes Radio in 2019, the AM station became a passthrough for overflow programming, including the national ESPN Radio weekday schedule.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The station's call sign changed to WEPN-FM on May 14, 2012, to match the AM call sign. YMF Media then transferred the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WRKS" title="WRKS">WRKS</a> call sign to the ESPN Radio affiliate in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi" title="Jackson, Mississippi">Jackson, Mississippi</a> area.
</p><p>In December 2021, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Beaver_Dam,_Wisconsin" title="Beaver Dam, Wisconsin">Beaver Dam, Wisconsin</a>-based <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Good_Karma_Brands" title="Good Karma Brands">Good Karma Brands</a>—an operator of ESPN Radio affiliates in other markets—announced that it would acquire operational control of WEPN-FM from Disney/ESPN, with Good Karma assuming the remainder of Disney's lease agreement with Emmis Communications; Emmis maintains ownership of the station's license. In the same transaction, Good Karma purchased full ownership of WEPN (AM) and ESPN Radio-owned stations in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WMVP" title="WMVP">Chicago</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/KSPN_(AM)" title="KSPN (AM)">Los Angeles</a> from Disney.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>On September 19, 2023, GKB owner Craig Karmazin told the <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a></i> that it would not renew the LMA with Emmis when it expires and would thus relinquish the 98.7 FM frequency on August 31, 2024. GKB had made an offer to acquire WEPN-FM outright, but talks with Emmis were unproductive.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original plan was to consolidate WEPN-FM's local programming onto 1050 AM, and direct users to the ESPN New York digital platform for overflow programming.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, on August 12, 2024, GKB instead announced that it would enter into an LMA with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Audacy,_Inc." title="Audacy, Inc.">Audacy</a>'s 880 WCBS beginning August 26, replacing its all-news format with WEPN-FM's former programming as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHSQ" title="WHSQ">WHSQ</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>After the expiration of the LMA, WEPN-FM's operations would be assumed by Emmis, with reported plans for the station to return to a music-based format, pending the search for a new operator or the outright sale of the station.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At midnight on August 31, 2024, WEPN-FM dropped its ESPN Radio programming and flipped to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hot_adult_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot adult contemporary">hot adult contemporary</a> as <i>TJ 98.7.</i> Its namesake is TJ Taormina—a former cast member and co-host of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHTZ" title="WHTZ">WHTZ</a>'s <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Elvis_Duran_and_the_Morning_Show" title="Elvis Duran and the Morning Show"><i>Elvis Duran and the Morning Show</i></a>; his syndicated morning show <i>The TJ Show</i> made its New York premiere on the station. The format is being billed as a "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pop-up_retail" title="Pop-up retail">pop-up</a>" station, and is being <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Broadcast_automation" title="Broadcast automation">automated</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Voice-tracking" title="Voice-tracking">voice-tracked</a> using a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">cloud</a> platform. It is not yet known if the <i>TJ</i> format is a short term <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Stunting_(broadcasting)" title="Stunting (broadcasting)">stunt</a>, or will serve as a long-term interim format while Emmis shops the station.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<dl><dd>This area also includes the following counties in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bergen_County,_New_Jersey" title="Bergen County, New Jersey">Bergen</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Essex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Essex County, New Jersey">Essex</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Passaic_County,_New_Jersey" title="Passaic County, New Jersey">Passaic</a></dd></dl>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/AM_broadcasting" title="AM broadcasting">AM frequency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WMCA_(AM)" title="WMCA (AM)">570</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSNR" title="WSNR">620</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN_(AM)" title="WFAN (AM)">660</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">710</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">770</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYC_(AM)" title="WNYC (AM)">820</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHSQ" title="WHSQ">880</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPAT_(AM)" title="WPAT (AM)">930</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYM" title="WNYM">970</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS_(AM)" title="WINS (AM)">1010</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WEPN_(AM)" title="WEPN (AM)">1050</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBBR" title="WBBR">1130</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WVNJ" title="WVNJ">1160</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLIB" title="WLIB">1190</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WADO" title="WADO">1280</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWRV" title="WWRV">1330</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKDM" title="WKDM">1380</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNSW" title="WNSW">1430</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WVOX" title="WVOX">1460</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WZRC" title="WZRC">1480</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WGHT" title="WGHT">1500</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFME_(AM)" title="WFME (AM)">1560</a><sup>1, 3</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWRL" title="WWRL">1600</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWRU" title="WWRU">1660</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Apex_(radio_band)" title="Apex (radio band)">Apex</a>/<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Very_high_frequency" title="Very high frequency">VHF</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WA2XMN" title="WA2XMN">42.8</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM frequency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYZ-LD" title="WNYZ-LD">87.7</a><sup>5</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBGO" title="WBGO">88.3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPSC-FM" title="WPSC-FM">88.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSIA" title="WSIA">88.9</a></li>
<li>89.1
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFDU" title="WFDU">WFDU</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYU-FM" title="WNYU-FM">WNYU-FM</a><sup>2</sup></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSOU" title="WSOU">89.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKCR-FM" title="WKCR-FM">89.9</a></li>
<li>90.3
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHCR-FM" title="WHCR-FM">WHCR-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKRB" title="WKRB">WKRB</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WMSC_(FM)" title="WMSC (FM)">WMSC</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFUV" title="WFUV">90.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFMU" title="WFMU">91.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYE_(FM)" title="WNYE (FM)">91.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">92.3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFME-FM" title="WFME-FM">92.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPAT-FM" title="WPAT-FM">93.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNVU_(FM)" title="WNVU (FM)">93.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYC-FM" title="WNYC-FM">93.9</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXBK" title="WXBK">94.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPLJ" title="WPLJ">95.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXNY-FM" title="WXNY-FM">96.3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WARW_(FM)" title="WARW (FM)">96.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQHT" title="WQHT">97.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSKQ-FM" title="WSKQ-FM">97.9</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">98.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAWZ" title="WAWZ">99.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBAI" title="WBAI">99.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHTZ" title="WHTZ">100.3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WCBS-FM" title="WCBS-FM">101.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN-FM" title="WFAN-FM">101.9</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNEW-FM" title="WNEW-FM">102.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKTU" title="WKTU">103.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WVBN_(FM)" title="WVBN (FM)">103.9</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAXQ" title="WAXQ">104.3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">105.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">105.9</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLTW" title="WLTW">106.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBLS" title="WBLS">107.5</a></li></ul>
</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Low-power_broadcasting" title="Low-power broadcasting">LPFM</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WYNE-LP" title="WYNE-LP">95.9</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=WBQE-LP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="WBQE-LP (page does not exist)">102.3</a></li>
<li>105.5
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WDMB-LP" class="mw-redirect" title="WDMB-LP">WDMB-LP</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQEQ-LP" class="mw-redirect" title="WQEQ-LP">WQEQ-LP</a><sup>2</sup></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Broadcast_relay_station" title="Broadcast relay station">Translators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W220EJ" class="mw-redirect" title="W220EJ">91.9</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W236CH" class="mw-redirect" title="W236CH">95.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W248CG" class="mw-redirect" title="W248CG">97.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W252CS" class="mw-redirect" title="W252CS">98.3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W268BY" class="mw-redirect" title="W268BY">101.5</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W272DX" class="mw-redirect" title="W272DX">102.3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W276AQ" class="mw-redirect" title="W276AQ">103.1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W284BW" class="mw-redirect" title="W284BW">104.7</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W300EI" class="mw-redirect" title="W300EI">107.9</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Via <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Subsidiary_communications_authority" title="Subsidiary communications authority">FM subcarrier</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<dl><dt>67 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/KHz" class="mw-redirect" title="KHz">kHz</a></dt>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chinese_Radio_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Radio New York">Chinese Radio New York</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Gatewave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gatewave (page does not exist)">Gatewave</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_reading_service" title="Radio reading service">radio reading service</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_Maria" title="Radio Maria">Radio Maria Stati Uniti</a> (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>)</dd></dl>
<dl><dt>92 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/KHz" class="mw-redirect" title="KHz">kHz</a></dt>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ICN_Radio" title="ICN Radio">ICN Radio</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_Maria" title="Radio Maria">Radio Maria Estados Unidos</a> (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>)</dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/RBC_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="RBC Radio">RBC Radio</a></dd></dl>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/NOAA_Weather_Radio" title="NOAA Weather Radio">NOAA Weather Radio</a><br />frequency</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KWO35" class="mw-redirect" title="KWO35">162.55</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/HD_Radio" title="HD Radio">Digital radio</a><br />by frequency & subchannel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBGO" title="WBGO">88.3-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBGO" title="WBGO">88.3-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFDU" title="WFDU">89.1-1</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFDU" title="WFDU">89.1-2</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFDU" title="WFDU">89.1-3</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSOU" title="WSOU">89.5-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSOU#WSOU_HD2" title="WSOU">89.5-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKCR-FM" title="WKCR-FM">89.9-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWFM" title="WWFM">89.9-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXPN-HD2" class="mw-redirect" title="WXPN-HD2">89.9-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFUV" title="WFUV">90.7-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFUV" title="WFUV">90.7-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">92.3-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">92.3-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">92.3-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPAT-FM" title="WPAT-FM">93.1-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYC-FM" title="WNYC-FM">93.9-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">93.9-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYC_(AM)" title="WNYC (AM)">93.9-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXBK" title="WXBK">94.7-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXBK" title="WXBK">94.7-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYZ-LD" title="WNYZ-LD">94.7-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPLJ" title="WPLJ">95.5-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPLJ#HD_Radio" title="WPLJ">95.5-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPLJ#HD_Radio" title="WPLJ">95.5-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WRDR" title="WRDR">95.5-4</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXNY-FM" title="WXNY-FM">96.3-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WADO" title="WADO">96.3-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXNY-FM" title="WXNY-FM">96.3-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXNY-FM" title="WXNY-FM">96.3-4</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WARW_(FM)" title="WARW (FM)">96.7-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WARW_(FM)" title="WARW (FM)">96.7-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WARW_(FM)" title="WARW (FM)">96.7-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQHT" title="WQHT">97.1-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSKQ-FM" title="WSKQ-FM">97.9-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAWZ" title="WAWZ">99.1-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAWZ" title="WAWZ">99.1-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAWZ" title="WAWZ">99.1-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHTZ" title="WHTZ">100.3-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WCBS-FM" title="WCBS-FM">101.1-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHSQ" title="WHSQ">101.1-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_True_Oldies_Channel" title="The True Oldies Channel">101.1-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN-FM" title="WFAN-FM">101.9-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/CBS_Sports_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="CBS Sports Radio">101.9-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN-FM" title="WFAN-FM">101.9-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNEW-FM" title="WNEW-FM">102.7-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKTU" title="WKTU">103.5-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pride_Radio" title="Pride Radio">103.5-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKTU" title="WKTU">103.5-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAXQ" title="WAXQ">104.3-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">104.3-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">105.1-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">105.1-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">105.1-3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">105.9-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">105.9-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLTW" title="WLTW">106.7-1</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLTW" title="WLTW">106.7-2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBLS" title="WBLS">107.5-1</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Call_signs_in_North_America" title="Call signs in North America">call sign</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KWO35" class="mw-redirect" title="KWO35">KWO35</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W220EJ" class="mw-redirect" title="W220EJ">W220EJ</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W236CH" class="mw-redirect" title="W236CH">W236CH</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W248CG" class="mw-redirect" title="W248CG">W248CG</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W252CS" class="mw-redirect" title="W252CS">W252CS</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W268BY" class="mw-redirect" title="W268BY">W268BY</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W272DX" class="mw-redirect" title="W272DX">W272DX</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W276AQ" class="mw-redirect" title="W276AQ">W276AQ</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W284BW" class="mw-redirect" title="W284BW">W284BW</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W300EI" class="mw-redirect" title="W300EI">W300EI</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WA2XMN" title="WA2XMN">WA2XMN</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WADO" title="WADO">WADO</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WARW_(FM)" title="WARW (FM)">WARW</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WARW_(FM)" title="WARW (FM)">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WARW_(FM)" title="WARW (FM)">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAXQ" title="WAXQ">WAXQ</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">HD2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAWZ" title="WAWZ">WAWZ</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAWZ" title="WAWZ">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WAWZ" title="WAWZ">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBAI" title="WBAI">WBAI</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBBR" title="WBBR">WBBR</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBGO" title="WBGO">WBGO</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBGO" title="WBGO">HD2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBLS" title="WBLS">WBLS</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=WBQE-LP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="WBQE-LP (page does not exist)">WBQE-LP</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WCBS-FM" title="WCBS-FM">WCBS-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHSQ" title="WHSQ">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WCBS-FM" title="WCBS-FM">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WDMB-LP" class="mw-redirect" title="WDMB-LP">WDMB-LP</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WEPN_(AM)" title="WEPN (AM)">WEPN</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">WEPN-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN_(AM)" title="WFAN (AM)">WFAN</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN-FM" title="WFAN-FM">WFAN-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN-FM" title="WFAN-FM">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFAN-FM" title="WFAN-FM">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFDU" title="WFDU">WFDU</a><sup>2</sup>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFDU" title="WFDU">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFDU" title="WFDU">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFME_(AM)" title="WFME (AM)">WFME</a><sup>1, 3</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFME-FM" title="WFME-FM">WFME-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFMU" title="WFMU">WFMU</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFUV" title="WFUV">WFUV</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFUV" title="WFUV">HD2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WGHT" title="WGHT">WGHT</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHCR-FM" title="WHCR-FM">WHCR-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHSQ" title="WHSQ">WHSQ</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WHTZ" title="WHTZ">WHTZ</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS_(AM)" title="WINS (AM)">WINS</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">WINS-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKCR-FM" title="WKCR-FM">WKCR-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWFM" title="WWFM">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXPN-HD2" class="mw-redirect" title="WXPN-HD2">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKDM" title="WKDM">WKDM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKRB" title="WKRB">WKRB</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKTU" title="WKTU">WKTU</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pride_Radio" title="Pride Radio">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WKTU" title="WKTU">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLIB" title="WLIB">WLIB</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLTW" title="WLTW">WLTW</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLTW" title="WLTW">HD2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WMCA_(AM)" title="WMCA (AM)">WMCA</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WMSC_(FM)" title="WMSC (FM)">WMSC</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNEW-FM" title="WNEW-FM">WNEW-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNSW" title="WNSW">WNSW</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNVU_(FM)" title="WNVU (FM)">WNVU</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYC_(AM)" title="WNYC (AM)">WNYC</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYC-FM" title="WNYC-FM">WNYC-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYC_(AM)" title="WNYC (AM)">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYE_(FM)" title="WNYE (FM)">WNYE</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYM" title="WNYM">WNYM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYU-FM" title="WNYU-FM">WNYU-FM</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYZ-LD" title="WNYZ-LD">WNYZ-LD</a><sup>5</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">WOR</a><sup>1</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPAT_(AM)" title="WPAT (AM)">WPAT</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPAT-FM" title="WPAT-FM">WPAT-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPLJ" title="WPLJ">WPLJ</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPLJ#HD_Radio" title="WPLJ">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPLJ#HD_Radio" title="WPLJ">HD3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WRDR" title="WRDR">HD4</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPSC-FM" title="WPSC-FM">WPSC-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQEQ-LP" class="mw-redirect" title="WQEQ-LP">WQEQ-LP</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQHT" title="WQHT">WQHT</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">WQXR-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">HD2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSIA" title="WSIA">WSIA</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSKQ-FM" title="WSKQ-FM">WSKQ-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSNR" title="WSNR">WSNR</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSOU" title="WSOU">WSOU</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WSOU#WSOU_HD2" title="WSOU">HD2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WVBN_(FM)" title="WVBN (FM)">WVBN</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WVOX" title="WVOX">HD2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WVNJ" title="WVNJ">WVNJ</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WVOX" title="WVOX">WVOX</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">WWPR-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWPR-FM" title="WWPR-FM">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWRL" title="WWRL">WWRL</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWRU" title="WWRU">WWRU</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWRV" title="WWRV">WWRV</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXBK" title="WXBK">WXBK</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXBK" title="WXBK">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYZ-LD" title="WNYZ-LD">HD3</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXNY-FM" title="WXNY-FM">WXNY-FM</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WADO" title="WADO">HD2</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXNY-FM" title="WXNY-FM">HD3</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WXNY-FM" title="WXNY-FM">HD4</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WYNE-LP" title="WYNE-LP">WYNE-LP</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WZRC" title="WZRC">WZRC</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/8-Ball_Community" title="8-Ball Community">8-Ball Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/D100_Radio_New_York" title="D100 Radio New York">D100 Radio New York</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/East_Village_Radio" title="East Village Radio">East Village Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KPISS.fm" title="KPISS.fm">KPISS.fm</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Newtown_Radio" title="Newtown Radio">Newtown Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNYZ-LD" title="WNYZ-LD">Voice of NY Radio Korea</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pulse_87" title="Pulse 87">Pulse 87</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_Free_Brooklyn" title="Radio Free Brooklyn">Radio Free Brooklyn</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Soho_Radio" title="Soho Radio">Soho Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Lot_Radio" title="The Lot Radio">The Lot Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBAR_(Barnard_College)" class="mw-redirect" title="WBAR (Barnard College)">WBAR</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_2XG" title="Radio 2XG">2XG/WJX</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Art_International_Radio" title="Art International Radio">Art International Radio</a><sup>4</sup></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jukebox_Radio" title="Jukebox Radio">Jukebox Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Country_Y-107" title="New Country Y-107">New Country Y-107</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KE2XCC" title="KE2XCC">W2XEA/KE2XCC</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/W2XMN" title="W2XMN">W2XMN</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFMN_(Alpine,_New_Jersey)" title="WFMN (Alpine, New Jersey)">W31NY/WFMN</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WDT_(New_York_City)" title="WDT (New York City)">WDT</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WDY" title="WDY">WDY</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WEVD" title="WEVD">WEVD</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WGYN" title="WGYN">WGYN</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WJDM_(New_Jersey)" title="WJDM (New Jersey)">WJDM (1530 AM)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WJY_(Hoboken,_New_Jersey)" title="WJY (Hoboken, New Jersey)">WJY (Hoboken, New Jersey)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WJY_(New_York_City)" title="WJY (New York City)">WJY (New York City)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLWL_(New_York_City)" title="WLWL (New York City)">WLWL</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WMGM-FM_(New_York_City)" title="WMGM-FM (New York City)">WMGM-FM (100.3 FM)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WNBC_(AM)" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBC (AM)">WNBC (660 AM)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPOW_(New_York_City)" title="WPOW (New York City)">WBBR/WPOW (1330 AM)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WPAT-FM_(1949%E2%80%931951)" title="WPAT-FM (1949–1951)">WPAT-FM (1949–1951)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WRNY_(New_York_City)" title="WRNY (New York City)">WRNY</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WWDX_(Paterson,_New_Jersey)" title="WWDX (Paterson, New Jersey)">WWDX</a></li></ul>
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<dl><dt>Radio stations in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">New York metropolitan area</a></dt>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:New_York_City_Radio" title="Template:New York City Radio">New York City</a>
<dl><dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Long_Island_Radio" title="Template:Long Island Radio">Long Island</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Hudson_Valley_Radio" title="Template:Hudson Valley Radio">Lower Hudson Valley</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Monmouth-Ocean_Radio" title="Template:Monmouth-Ocean Radio">Monmouth-Ocean</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Morristown_Radio" title="Template:Morristown Radio">Morristown</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Middlesex-Somerset-Union_Radio" title="Template:Middlesex-Somerset-Union Radio">New Brunswick</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Sussex_Radio" title="Template:Sussex Radio">Sussex</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>
</div>
<dl><dt>Other nearby regions</dt>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Bridgeport_Radio" title="Template:Bridgeport Radio">Bridgeport</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Danbury_Radio" title="Template:Danbury Radio">Danbury</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Middletown-Newburgh_NY_Radio" title="Template:Middletown-Newburgh NY Radio">Middletown-Newburgh</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Poughkeepsie_Radio" title="Template:Poughkeepsie Radio">Poughkeepsie-Kingston</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Stamford-Norwalk_Radio" title="Template:Stamford-Norwalk Radio">Stamford-Norwalk</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Template:Trenton_Radio" title="Template:Trenton Radio">Trenton</a></dd></dl>
<dl><dt>See also</dt>
<dd><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_New_York" title="List of radio stations in New York">List of radio stations in New York</a></dd></dl>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Mass_media_in_New_York_City" title="Category:Mass media in New York City">Mass media in New York City</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Radio_stations_in_New_York_City" title="Category:Radio stations in New York City">Radio stations</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Television_stations_in_New_York_City" title="Category:Television stations in New York City">TV stations</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Newspapers_published_in_New_York_City" title="Category:Newspapers published in New York City">Newspapers</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<dl><dt>Notes</dt>
<dd>1. <span class="nowrap"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Clear-channel_station" title="Clear-channel station">Clear-channel stations</a> with extended nighttime coverage.</span></dd>
<dd>2. <span class="nowrap">Under a "Shared Time" agreement.</span></dd>
<dd>3. <span class="nowrap">Station is <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dark_(broadcasting)" title="Dark (broadcasting)">silent</a>.</span></dd>
<dd>4. <span class="nowrap">Defunct internet radio station.</span></dd>
<dd>5. <span class="nowrap"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Channel_6_radio_stations_in_the_United_States" title="Channel 6 radio stations in the United States">Audio from channel 6 TV station</a></span></dd></dl></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KGSR" title="KGSR">KGSR</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KLBJ_(AM)" title="KLBJ (AM)">KLBJ</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KLBJ-FM" title="KLBJ-FM">KLBJ-FM</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KLZT" title="KLZT">KLZT</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/KROX-FM" title="KROX-FM">KROX-FM</a></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Radio_Fresh!&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Radio Fresh! (page does not exist)">Radio Fresh!</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=STAR_(Bulgaria_radio_station)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="STAR (Bulgaria radio station) (page does not exist)">STAR</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WBLS" title="WBLS">WBLS</a></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WFNI" title="WFNI">WFNI</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WIBC_(FM)" title="WIBC (FM)">WIBC</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLHK" title="WLHK">WLHK</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WLIB" title="WLIB">WLIB</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WQHT" title="WQHT">WQHT</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/WYXB" title="WYXB">WYXB</a></li></ul>
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