WXXI (AM)

WXXI

City of license	Rochester, New York
Branding	AM 1370 - NPR News & Talk
Slogan	Go Public.
Frequency	1370 (kHz)
First air date	July 2, 1984
Format	News/Talk/Public radio
Power	5,000 watts day and night
Class	B
Facility ID	74220
Callsign meaning	XXI = 21 in Roman numerals; also the former analog and current virtual channel number for sister station WXXI-TV
Affiliations	National Public Radio American Public Media
Owner	WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
Sister stations	WXXI-FM, WXXI-TV
Website	http://www.wxxi.org/

WXXI (1370 AM) is a National Public Radio member station in Rochester, New York, broadcasting news, talk and informational programming on a 24-hour daily schedule. Its programs can also be heard on WXXI-FM's HD Radio signal.

WXXI dates its origins to July 2, 1984, when it signed on with its current mix of NPR news programming, local news and talk, and public affairs programming geared to serve adult listeners in the six-county Rochester metropolitan area which its signal covers. The station is the successor to WSAY, a facility founded and built by the late Gordon P. Brown in 1936 as a small local area station with a 250 watt signal on 1210 kHz. As a result of the NARBA agreement it moved to 1240 kHz in 1941. In the pre-war era WSAY became best known as the home of local music programs at a time when its network-affiliated competitors were airing a mix of local news and sports with national drama, comedy and music/variety shows supplied by the NBC and CBS networks. WSAY also was the first station to hire an African-American announcer for a regular shift.

Headquarters in Rochester, New York

Following World War II WSAY received FCC permission to improve its signal by moving to the regional 1370 kHz frequency. It relocated its transmitter from a downtown Rochester building with rooftop antenna to a modern four-tower plant in suburban Brighton. It increased power first to 1,000 watts and shortly afterward to 5,000 watts full-time. Over the next three decades WSAY operated under a number of formats, from pop standards to top 40 to progressive rock to country. Gordon Brown owned WSAY until his death in 1979, and his estate sold it to the Dickey family (current controlling owners of the nationwide Cumulus radio station group). The Dickeys operated it from 1980 to 1984, also under a variety of formats from personality adult contemporary to country to talk, eventually changing its callsign to WRTK. The license and facility was eventually sold to the WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, and briefly taken dark before its summer 1984 relaunch as WXXI(AM) with a round-the-clock noncommercial format of news, talk and public affairs. The WXXI news and public affairs department produces local newscasts seven days a week and local talk programming every weekday, along with NPR news programming and locally produced documentary and specialty offerings. It currently operates from modern digital studios in the downtown Public Broadcasting Center, and upgraded transmitting facilities at the Brighton location first brought on line by Gordon Brown in 1946. Its programming is simulcast on the HD-2 channel of sister FM station WXXI-FM, and is streamed online 24 hours a day on the station's website. One must register with the website in order to listen to any of the streams. It has also won numerous local, state and national awards for its program offerings.

External links

WXXI official website

Radio stations in the Rochester, New York market

By AM frequency	950 990 1040 1140 1180 1280 1310 1370 1460 1490 1550 1590

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.1 89.3 89.5 89.7 90.1 90.5 91.5 92.5 93.3 94.1 95.1 95.7 96.5 97.1 97.9 98.9 99.7 100.5 100.9 101.3 102.3 102.7 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.9 105.5 105.7 105.9 106.7 107.3 107.7

By callsign	W265BX W282BQ W288BZ WAIO WAYO-LP WBEE-FM WBER WBSU WBTA WBZA WCGR WCJW WCMF-FM WDCX WDKX WDVI WEOS WEPL-LP WFKL WGMC WGSU WHAM WHIC WHTK WHWS-LP WITR WKDL-FM WKEL WJZR WKGS WLGZ-FM WLKK WMHN WNBL WOKR WPXY-FM WRMM-FM WROC WRSB WRUR-FM WUUF WVOR WXXI WXXI-FM WYSL WZNE WZXV

Defunct	WDRE (1330 AM)

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NPR member stations in the state of New York

WAMC stations	Albany WAMC (AM)/WAMC-FM Canajoharie WCAN Kingston WAMK Middletown WOSR Mount Kisco WWES Plattsburgh WCEL Stamford WANZ Ticonderoga WANC Utica WRUN-FM

WSKG stations	Binghamton WSKG Binghamton WSQX Corning WSQE Hornell WSQA Ithaca WSQG Oneonta WSQC

NCPR stations	Blue Mountain Lake WXLH Boonville WXLB Canton WSLU Cape Vincent WSLZ Gouverneur WSLG Malone WSLO North Creek WXLG Peru WXLU Saranac Lake WSLL Tupper Lake WXLS Watertown WSLJ

WXXI stations	Houghton WXXY-FM Rochester WXXI-FM Rochester WXXI (AM) Rochester WRUR

WNED stations	Buffalo WNED-FM Buffalo WDCZ Jamestown WNJA

WBFO stations	Buffalo WBFO Jamestown WUBJ Olean WOLN

WCNY stations	Syracuse WCNY Utica WUNY Watertown WJNY

WRVO stations	Oswego WRVO Syracuse WRVD Clayton WRVH Watertown WRVJ Utica WRVN low power translators serving Geneva, Hamilton, Ithaca, Norwich, N. Watertown

Other stations	Brooklyn WNYE Fredonia WCVF Geneva WEOS Hamilton WRCU Jeffersonville WJFF New York City WFUV New York City WNYC Noyack WSUF Poughkeepsie WRHV Schenectady WMHT Schuyler Falls WOXR Southampton WPPB Southampton WRLI Syracuse WAER

See also List of NPR stations

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York

Coordinates: 43°06′01″N 77°34′23″W / 43.10028°N 77.57306°W / 43.10028; -77.57306

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