WURD

WURD
City	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Branding	Philly Info 900 AM
Slogan	Progressive and Proud: Your Information Station, Committed to Solutions
Frequency	900 kHz
Translator(s)	W241CH (96.1, Philadelphia)
First air date	1958
Format	Talk
Power	1,000 watts (day) 105 watts (night)
Class	D
Facility ID	52442
Callsign meaning	WURD=Word
Former callsigns	WFLN WDVT WEMG
Owner	LEVAS Communications, LP
Website	900amWURD.com

WURD is an AM radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts at 900 kHz with a talk format primarily targeted to African-Americans, and is currently under the ownership of LEVAS Communications, LP.

History

The station began operations around 1958 as WFLN, serving as a daytime-only AM simulcast of an FM classical station. In the early 1980s the station was sold to veteran Philadelphia broadcaster Frank Ford, who changed the call letters to WDVT and changed the format to talk. Weekday talk show hosts on WDVT included Peter Tilden, Philadelphia Magazine writer Carol Saline, former Philadelphia Bulletin columnist D.I. Strunk and Ford himself. Weekend specialty shows on the station covered subjects ranging from pro wrestling to gay issues. WDVT made little impact in the ratings, and after a few years Ford took the station off the air and returned its license to the owners of WFLN, who sold it to Willis Broadcasting, a Virginia-based religious broadcaster who changed the call letters to WURD. In the 1996 Spanish broadcaster Alfredo Alonso bought the station for $1.5 million and turned it into a Spanish-language operation as WEMG Mega 900. The station became the first property purchased by Alonso who founded Mega Broadcasting that same year. Eventually Mega moved the WEMG call sign to 1310 kHz and sold Mega 900 for $8.5 million in 2002. The new owners reinstituted the WURD call sign. After a period of apparent indecision during which the station aired various types of music and CNN Headline News, management settled on the current talk format.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WURD

Radio-Locator Information on WURD

Radio stations in the Philadelphia market
By AM frequency	560 610 690² 740 860² 900 950 990 1060¹ 1110 1180 1210¹ 1340² 1370 1420 1440 1480 1490 1520 1540 1590 1640 New Jersey 640 800 1310² 1360 1460 1680²
By FM frequency	88.1 (Philadelphia) 88.1 (Warwick) 88.3 88.5 88.7 88.9 89.1 (Radnor Township) 89.1 (Villanova) 89.3 (Coatesville) 89.3 (Warminster) 89.7 90.1 90.9 91.5 91.7 (Philadelphia) 91.7 (Telford) 91.7 (West Chester) 92.5 92.9 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.5 97.3 98.1 98.9 99.9 (Havertown) 99.9 (Philadelphia) 100.3 101.1 102.1 102.9 103.9 (Jenkintown) 103.9 (Wagontown) 104.5 105.3 106.1 Delaware 93.7 99.5 New Jersey 88.1 88.9 89.5 90.5 91.5 94.5 95.1 95.3 97.1 97.5 100.7 105.7 106.5 106.9 107.9 (Chatsworth) 107.9 (Pennsauken)
NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.475
Digital radio by frequency & subchannel	610 950 1060 1210 1480 88.5-1 88.5-2 89.5-1 89.5-2 90.9-1 90.9-2 92.5-1 92.5-2 92.5-3 93.3-1 93.3-2 94.1-1 94.1-2 94.1-3 94.1-4 95.7-1 95.7-2 96.5-1 96.5-2 97.5-1 97.5-2 97.5-3 98.1-1 98.1-2 98.1-3 98.1-4 98.9-1 98.9-2 100.3-1 101.1-1 101.1-2 102.1-1 102.1-2 102.9-1 102.9-2 104.5-1 104.5-2 105.3-1 105.3-2 106.1-1 106.1-2 107.9-1
By callsign	KIH28 KYW¹ W236AF W237EH W241CH W246AQ W260CZ W264BH W280CP W289AZ W300AC WBCB WBEB HD2 WBEN-FM HD2 WBMR WBYO WBZC WCHE WCHR WCOJ WCUR WDAS WDAS-FM HD2 WEMG² WEXP WFIL WFYL WHAT² WHHS WHYY HD2 WIFI WIOQ WIP-FM HD2 HD3 HD4 WISX HD2 WJBR WKDN WKDU WKVP WMGK HD2 WMMR HD2 WNAP WNG704 WNJC WNJS-FM WNPV WNTP WNWR WOGL HD2 HD3 HD4 WPAZ WPEB WPEN HD2 HD3 WPHE² WPHI-FM WPHT¹ WPNX700 WPPZ-FM WPST WPWA WQHS WRDV WRFF HD2 WRNB WRSD WRTI WRTJ WSRN-FM WSTW WTDY-FM HD2 WTEL WTHJ WTMR WTTM² WURD WUSL HD2 WVCH WWDB² WWJZ WWLU WWTX WXPN HD2 WXTU HD2 HD3 WXVU WYBF WYPA HD2 WZML-LP WZXE WZZD WZZE
Defunct	WCAU/1210 WCAU-FM/98.1 WDNR/89.5 WDRE/103.9 WDVR/101.1 WEGX/106.1 WLCE/104.5 WQHS WSNI/104.5 WTHK/97.5 WYXR/104.5
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Coordinates: 39°55′02″N 75°13′18″W / 39.91722°N 75.22167°W / 39.91722; -75.22167

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