WLVL

WLVL

City of license	Lockport, New York
Broadcast area	Buffalo-Niagara Falls
Branding	Hometown 1340
Frequency	1340 kHz
Format	News Talk Information
Audience share	0.7 (Sp'08 P2, R&R^[1])
Power	1,000 watts day 1,000 watts night
Class	C
Facility ID	14714
Transmitter coordinates	43°10′30.00″N 78°42′39.00″W / 43.1750000°N 78.7108333°W / 43.1750000; -78.7108333
Callsign meaning	Lively Voice of Lockport^[2]
Former callsigns	WUSJ (The Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, a local newspaper owned the station for an extended period)
Affiliations	ABC Radio
Owner	Dick Greene; Culver Communications Corp., Inc.
Sister stations	WECK
Webcast	WLVL embedded player
Website	wlvl.com

WLVL (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Lockport, New York, USA, the station serves the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area. The station is currently owned by Culver Communications Corp., Inc. and features programming from NBC Sports Radio.^[3]^[4]

Culver Communications also owns WECK, an adult standards music station in Cheektowaga which recently added news, and some sports talk. WECK was an talk radio station like WLVL from 2008 to 2011. When the station switched to a music format in 2011, WLVL picked up some of the displaced programs.

Programming

First Light
Lockport's Early Morning News with Paul Oates (Tim Schmitt with news)
Tradio
Stuck in the Middle, hosted by Tim Schmitt
Dennis Miller, migrated from WECK
Green to Checker, with Racin' Ray Sherman
Super Dial-A-Deal (Saturdays), with Diane Rich and Racin' Ray Sherman
NBC Sports Radio

Alumni

Brian Kahle, former AM Buffalo host, hosted a talk show on WLVL from 2007 until his death in 2013.
National talk show host Stephanie Miller started at WLVL before leaving for Rochester's WCMF.
John Murphy, the Voice of the Buffalo Bills and a Lockport native, started at WLVL, handling play-by-play of Niagara-Orleans League games.
Doug Young, a radio veteran of WGR and the now-defunct WNSA, hosted an interview program on WLVL, but was fired in September 2008.

References

↑ "Buffalo-Niagara Falls Market Ratings". Radio & Records.
↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
↑ "WLVL Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "WLVL Station Information Profile". Arbitron.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WLVL

Radio-Locator Information on WLVL

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WLVL

Radio stations in Buffalo–Niagara Falls market

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NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.525 162.550

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Defunct	WFWO (89.7 FM)

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News/Talk radio stations in the state of New York

All-News	WCBS – New York WINS – New York

News & Talk	WABC – New York WACK – Newark WATN – Watertown WAUB – Auburn WBEN – Buffalo WECK – Cheektowaga WENI – Corning WENY – Elmira WFBL – Syracuse WFLR – Dundee WGDJ – Rensselaer WGHQ – Kingston WGVA – Geneva WGY – Schenectady WGY-FM – Albany WHAM – Rochester WHCU – Ithaca WIBX – Utica WJIP – Ellenville WJJF – Montauk WKAL – Rome WKIP – Poughkeepsie WLEA – Hornell WLVL – Lockport WMCR – Oneida WNBF – Binghamton WOR – New York WRCN – Riverhead WSYR – Syracuse WSYR-FM – Solvay WXXI – Rochester

Defunct	WUTI – Utica

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