WYRD (AM)

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WYRD
City of license Greenville, South Carolina
Broadcast area Greenville, South Carolina
Branding News Radio WORD
Frequency 1330 kHz
First air date 1933
Format News/Talk
Power 5,000 watts
Class B
Facility ID 34389
Transmitter coordinates 34°51′18.00″N 82°25′24.00″W / 34.8550000°N 82.4233333°W / 34.8550000; -82.4233333
Callsign meaning "Word" (Y substitutes for the O, used in sister station WORD-AM)
Owner Entercom Communications
(Entercom Greenville License, LLC)
Webcast Listen Live
Website newsradioword.com

See also: WORD, WYRD-FM

WYRD, known on-air as News Radio WORD, is an News/Talk-formatted radio station in the Greenville-Spartanburg area of Upstate South Carolina. The Entercom Communications outlet is licensed by the FCC to Greenville, SC, and broadcasts at 1330 kHz with an ERP of 5 kW unlimited non-directional daytime and 3-way directional at night. It simulcasts with WYRD-FM and WORD.

News Radio WORD carries Russ and Lisa, Mike Gallagher, Coast to Coast AM, Rush Limbaugh, Kim Komando, Lars Larson, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity and Bob McLain.

History

This radio station was once called WFBC with a top-40 format. The call letters continue to be used by WFBC-FM. WYRD and WORD added 106.3 (now WYRD-FM) as an FM simulcast in 2008.

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