WYCK

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WYCK
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City of license Plains Township, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Branding The Game
Slogan "Northeast Pennsylvania Sports Radio"
Frequency 1340 kHz (analog)
First air date 1924
Format Sports Radio
Power 810 Watts
Class C
Former callsigns WBRE, WKRZ, WPLJ, WYOM, WTSW
Owner Bold Gold Media
Sister stations WICK, WPSN, WFBS
Website http://www.thegame-radio.com

WYCK is an AM broadcasting radio station licensed to the city of Plains Township, Pennsylvania and serves the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton radio market. The station broadcasts at a frequency of 1340 kHz with 810 Watts with a non-directional signal pattern.

The station is owned by Bold Gold Media. In 2006, the station owners dropped the Oldies radio format in favor of a Sports Radio format branded as "The Game" with programming coming from Fox Sports Radio and Radio Network's Jim Rome[1]. WYCK simulcasts "The Game" radio format along with its sister stations WICK located in Scranton, WPSN located in Honesdale, [2], and WFBS in Berwick[3]. "The Game" simulcast network is also the flagship for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees AAA Minor League Baseball radio play-by-play coverage[4].

[edit] History

The station first signed-on the AM dial in 1924 as WBRE, owned by the Louis G. Baltimore and the Baltimore Radio Exchange company in Wilkes-Barre[5]. WBRE initially broadcast at a frequency of 1300 kHz[6] until 1927 when it switched to broadcasting on the frequency of 1200 kHz on a time shared basis with the other long time station in Wilkes-Barre, WBAX[7]. This arrangement lasted unitl 1930 when WBRE changed frequency to 1310 kHz[8] where it stayed unitl the great nationwide frequency reassignment year of 1941 when the station finally landed on its present day broadcast frequency of 1340 kHz[9]. As WBRE, it was an NBC radio affiliate[10].

The station continued as WBRE until the 1970's when it became WKRZ (AM)[11]. The change to WKRZ (AM) was the start of many call sign and format flips for the station, taking on the call signs of WPLJ (AM), WYOM, and finally WBCR[12] by 1989[13]. As WBCR (AM), the station had a Christian radio format. In 1991, another call sign change to WTSW[14] and then finally in 1992 the station's call sign were changed to the present WYCK.

[edit] References

  1. ^ NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush
  2. ^ NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush
  3. ^ Departments/Agencies
  4. ^ Departments/Agencies
  5. ^ U. S. Network-Affiliated AM Radio Stations, 1949
  6. ^ U. S. Radio Stations as of June 30, 1925
  7. ^ U. S. Radio Stations as of June 30, 1927
  8. ^ U. S. Radio Stations as of June 30, 1930
  9. ^ U. S. AM Stations as of 1942
  10. ^ U. S. Network-Affiliated AM Radio Stations, 1949
  11. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.broadcasting/msg/8d3f9237ba6c318e?dmode=source&hl=en
  12. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.broadcasting/msg/8d3f9237ba6c318e?dmode=source&hl=en
  13. ^ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page
  14. ^ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page

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