| City of license | Memphis, Tennessee |
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| Broadcast area | Memphis, Tennessee |
| Branding | Newsradio 600 |
| Frequency | WEGR 102.7 FM HD-2 (simulcast) |
| First air date | September 22, 1922 |
| Format | News Talk Information |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 58396 |
| Callsign meaning | Wooten Radio and Electric Company[1] |
| Former callsigns | KFNG (1922-1926) |
| Affiliations | AP Radio, Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (CC Licenses) |
| Sister stations | KJMS, WDIA, WEGR, WHAL-FM, WHRK Under LMA: KWAM TV stations WPTY-TV and WLMT pending sale to Providence Equity Partners |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 600wrec.com |
WREC (600 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications.[2][3] The station is also broadcast on HD radio.[4]
In the fall of 2006, WREC assumed the broadcast rights for the football and basketball teams of the University of Memphis. Before carrying the University of Memphis, the station had carried the University of Tennessee longer than any other station in the state of Tennessee.
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The station signed on for the first time on September 22, 1922 as KFNG, owned by electrical engineer and radio dealer Hoyt Wooten. The station operated from a 10-watt transmitter in his father's home in Coldwater, Mississippi. In 1925, it moved to Whitehaven, Tennessee (now a part of Memphis) and adopted its current calls. It originally shared the 600 AM frequency with WOAN in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee's first commercial radio station. The two stations merged in 1929, and WREC moved to studios in the basement of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis, where it would remain for over 40 years.
Eventually, the station spawned an FM station (now WEGR) and Memphis' CBS television affiliate (now WREG-TV). Wooten sold his stations to Cowles Communications in 1963, earning a handsome return on his original investment of 40 years earlier.
Andrew Clarksenior was replaced on WREC by "The Schnitt Show". Whereas Clarksenior was factual based, Schnitt is mostly opinions and humor. Clarksenior's last day was August 03, 2011 and to date, no one knows his whereabouts. His departure was discussed on freerepublic.com. Some speculate that his popularity gave an unwelcome voice to black conservatives in Memphis.
WREC includes a conservative show line up with programs hosted by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Andrew Clarksenior. Nationally syndicated shows round out the program schedule such as The Mutual Fund Show with Adam Bold, Handel on the Law, Coast to Coast, Bob Costas on the Radio and Kim Komando.
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