WRCA

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WRCA

City of license	Waltham, Massachusetts
First air date	1948
Frequency	1330 (kHz)
Format	Ethnic
Class	B
Owner	Beasley Broadcast Group

This article is about the current radio station, for the NBC stations in New York please see WNBC and WFAN.

WRCA is a radio station serving the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. It broadcasts on 1330 kHz on the AM radio dial, and broadcasts an ethnic format under the ownership of the Beasley Broadcast Group.

[edit] History

The station began operating as WCRB in 1948, owned by Theodore Jones's Charles River Broadcasting. WCRB was originally a community station for Waltham before switching to a classical format a few years later. An FM simulcast was added in 1954, which gradually became more prominent than 1330, to the point that the AM station ceased simulcasting WCRB-FM in 1975 (the FM retained the classical format) and became WHET, programming a big-band/adult standards format from 1975 until 1978, and then a short-run as a beautiful music format. Sales led to formats such as country WDLW for most of the 1980's, and then "Showbiz Radio" WRCA before the station began leasing time to ethinc operators in 1991 (the WRCA callsign was retained), which has remained to this day the operation of the station. The current owners, the Beasley Broadcast Group, took over in 2000 from ADD Media.

The station's transmitter is currently located at the studio site of former sister station WCRB-FM in Waltham. However, WRCA is due to move soon to a new transmitter site a few miles away in Newton, Massachusetts, which will allow the station to boost power to 20,000 watts.

[edit] Reference

• The Boston Radio Dial: WRCA(AM). The Archives at BostonRadio.org (2005-3-27). Retrieved on January 20, 2006.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WRCA