WYRD (AM)
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City of license | Greenville, South Carolina |
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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 |
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 |
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.
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WYRD
- Radio-Locator Information on WYRD
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WYRD
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