WSBR

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WSBR

City of license	Boca Raton, Florida
Broadcast area	West Palm Beach area
Slogan	Moneytalk Radio
Frequency	740 kHz (also on HD Radio)
Format	News Talk Information
Power	2,500 watts day 940 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	60634
Transmitter coordinates	26°20′6.00″N 80°15′55.00″W / 26.3350000°N 80.2652778°W / 26.3350000; -80.2652778
Owner	Beasley Broadcast Group
Sister stations	WHSR, WKIS, WPOW, WQAM, WWNN
Website	wsbrradio.com

WSBR (740 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Boca Raton, Florida, USA, the station serves the West Palm Beach/Boca Raton radio markets, with the Miami/Fort. Lauderdale market as a secondary. The station is currently owned by Beasly Broadcast Group, Inc., doing business as Wwnn License, LLC.^[1]

History

Not much is known before 1989. Since its inception in 1965, WSBR served as primarily an MOR format station which also stayed within Big Bands and Standards featuring radio personalities, Scott Courant and Paul Beers until its sale in 1989 to Howard Goldsmith. Until Goldsmith's purchase, WSBR stayed to its MOR format during the weekdays, and ran brokered talk programming sporadically on the weekend, to garner more income.

Upon purchase from Mal Kahn in 1989, Goldsmith changed the format from MOR/Standards to a talk format rooted in business, or, as Goldsmith coined it, "MoneyTalk Radio."

South Florida's MoneyTalk Radio

After the LMA was approved by the FCC in early 1989, Goldsmith overhauled the station's prime format from MOR/Standards, which were not monetarily beneficial to the station's operations, to a new type of talk radio format centralized upon the activities of the stock market, as well as its periphery. Coined (and copyrighted) "South Florida's MoneyTalk Radio," the new WSBR carried brokered time programs made available initially to stock brokers, commodoties brokers, bond brokers, investment brokers and mortgage brokers. Non-business talk programs still remained from the Kahn era - Palm Beach resident Herbert Swope and newspaper columnist Greg Allen had daily programs, with the rest of the broadcast day devoted to a combination of "per inquiry" informercials and programming via satellite from the Business Radio Network.

References

↑ "WSBR Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

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