| City of license | WRNY: Rome, New York WTLB: Utica, New York WIXT: Little Falls, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Utica-Rome area |
| Branding | ESPN Radio 1310 AM |
| Frequency | WRNY: 1350 kHz WTLB: 1310 kHz WIXT: 1230 kHz |
| Format | Sports/Talk |
| Power | WRNY: 500 Watts day 57 Watts night WTLB: 5,000 watts day 500 watts night WIXT: 1,000 watts unlimited |
| Class | WRNY: D WTLB: B WIXT: C |
| Facility ID | WRNY: 53657 WTLB: 54548 WIXT: 57701 |
| Callsign meaning | WRNY: Rome, New York WIXT: parked former call sign of WSYR-TV, channel 9 in Syracuse. "IX" = 9, and Television. WTLB: play on WTLA, with B to indicate the second. |
| Former callsigns | WIXT: WLFH |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio Westwood One New York Yankees Radio Network New York Giants Radio Network |
| Owner | Galaxy Communications (Galaxy Utica Licensee LLC) |
| Sister stations | WKLL, WOUR, WUMX |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | ESPNCNY.com |
WRNY (1350 AM) is an American radio station broadcasting at 1350 kHz. The station was owned by Clear Channel until September 2007, when ownership was transferred to Galaxy Utica as a result of Clear Channel's decision to "go private".[1] The station had been acquired by Clear Channel from Dame Media in June, 1999.
WRNY is part of a three station simulcast that includes WTLB in Utica, New York and WIXT AM 1230 in Little Falls, New York. The three stations are affiliated with ESPN Radio.
As of September 2007, prior to the transfer to Galaxy, WRNY and WIXT (which, until 2005, was known by the call sign WLFH) were operating as part of a four station network of Sports Talk radio stations named "The Sports Stars", carrying a variety of local and syndicated sports talk programming, along with live coverage of local sporting events. The other two stations in the simulcast were WADR in Remsen and WUTQ in Utica. The Sports Stars network was affiliated with Fox Sports Radio, as was the standard for Clear Channel sports radio stations.
WTLB, at the time, was under Galaxy Communications ownership; WTLB was mostly a simulcast of WTLA in Syracuse (hence the call sign) and WSGO in Oswego; all three stations ran the Music of Your Life adult standards format.
Upon Clear Channel's exit from the Utica market in 2007, the network was rearranged. WADR and WUTQ, the two weakest stations in the network, were sold to Ken Roser, while Galaxy Communications acquired WRNY and WIXT. The network, which expanded to WTLB at this time, change its slogan from "Sports Stars" to "1310 The Game." The network switched from Fox Sports to ESPN Radio on March 5, 2010, at the same time Galaxy's Syracuse stations, WTLA and WSGO, switched to ESPN.
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