| City of license | Attleboro, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Providence, Rhode Island |
| Frequency | 1320 kHz |
| First air date | October 8, 1950 |
| Format | Brokered Time/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65197 |
| Callsign meaning | Web Access Radio Live (earlier format) |
| Former callsigns | WARA (1950–April 17, 1998) WJYT (April 17, 1998–December 6, 2000)[1] |
| Affiliations | Boston College Eagles |
| Owner | The ADD Radio Group, Inc |
| Sister stations | WALE |
| Webcast | mms://stream1.systeminplace.net/warl |
| Website | 1320warlradio.com |
WARL (1320 AM) is a radio station in Attleboro, Massachusetts. While its transmitters are located in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, its studio is located in Providence, Rhode Island. Its received signal is good in the town its transmitter is in but it cannot be received well in parts of Providence.
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WARL began life as WARA on October 8, 1950. It was the local Attleboro radio station from until 1998. Its original power was 1 kW.
WARA's owners applied for a power increase to its currently-authorized 5 kW day & night on September 24, 1985 (BP-19850924AF). The F.C.C. granted the increase on April Fools' Day 1986 with a license to cover being issued on September 25, 1987. Additionally, WARA changed ownership from Jerome Ottmar to James H., Peter H. & David J. Ottmar in 1986.
WARA is talk radio as "Talk 1320" by this time. It is owned by Peter Ottmar's Back Bay Broadcasting, along with WPNW, WWKX & WBNW.
WARA became Spanish-language WJYT. ADD Radio Group bought the station effective June 1.
WJYT changed calls to WARL on December 6, 2000.[1] As WARL, it has had many formats, which are detailed below. The first of these formats was "Web Access Radio Live"- a brokered time/internet T.V. hybrid.
WARL became easy listening with Norm Jagolinzer as host. Later that year the format changed from easy listening to urban as "Power 1320".
WARL changed formats again to all-conspiracy talk "Reality Radio 1320" (featuring programming from the Genesis Communications Network). The programming had been airing on WALE until its bankruptcy sale in May 2003.
WARL's format once again changes, this time to sports talk "1320 The Drive" programmed by Scott MacPherson as a companion to his Sports Journal newspaper. WARL was the Providence-area affiliate of Sporting News Radio from 2004–2006. It was the flagship station for the Providence Bruins Radio Network for the 2005–06 season.
In September 2006 WARL changed again to new-age "Positive Energy Moving Forward." It dropped sports programming during this time.
WARL added Boston College Eagles sports as well as Attleboro High School football.
In May 2010, Jeff Santos, who buys time on WWZN in Boston to air progressive talk, announced on his show that they were buying time on WARL as well, in full force by May 31, 2010.
According to a filing with the FCC in early 2007, the station's transmitter facility was substantially damaged by vandals. The owner asserts that they have been unable to return the station to its licensed daytime power, even with 4 radio engineers and support from the transmitter equipment manufacturer. In April 2008, the FCC dismissed their request to extend the temporary authority to remain at reduced power.[2]
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