| City of license | Buffalo, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Western New York |
| Branding | WNED-AM 970 News |
| Slogan |
"NPR... & More"- "The Information Station" |
| Frequency | 970 kHz Simulcast on 94.5 HD2 |
| First air date | October 14, 1924 |
| Format | Public/News |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | same as WNED-TV |
| Former callsigns | WEBR-AM (1924-1993) |
| Owner | Western New York Public Broadcasting Association |
| Website | http://www.wned.org |
WNED is an American radio station broadcasting in Buffalo, New York at a frequency of 970 kHz. It offers an all-news format.
WNED is one of two National Public Radio affiliates in Buffalo. The other is WBFO, operated by the University of Buffalo. WNED agreed to purchase WBFO in July 2011.
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WNED was launched on October 14, 1924 as WEBR, making it the second-longest running radio station in Buffalo behind WGR. In 1975, the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association bought WEBR and WREZ-FM, adopting an (almost) all-news format a year later (although an evening and overnight jazz program, Jazz In The Nighttime with Al Wallack, remained on the air). In 1993 the station was renamed WNED and all non-news programming was dropped. [1]
Unlike its counterpart WBFO, which (as of December 2011) still has music programming overnights and weekends, WNED focuses entirely on news and talk programming. Several of the programs on WNED and WBFO overlap, with different production teams (for instance, Morning Edition airs on both WNED and WBFO, each with its own host for local inserts). With WNED's planned takeover of WBFO, the duplication of programming is expected to end, although which station will drop each show has not yet been announced.[2] Programs heard uniquely on WNED include Here and Now, The World, Marketplace, and As it Happens.
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