WABC (AM)

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WABC ( Branding: 77 WABC Radio; slogan: Breaking News, Stimulating Talk) is an American news radio stations from New York in the same U.S. state. The radio station is working in collaboration with ABC News Radio, the former owner of the transmitter. WABC is on the medium wave frequency 770 khz receivable.

WABCs 50,000 watt signal conditioning attained in large areas, the New York Metropolitan Area and is receivable in 38 U.S. states and over night in large parts of Canada.

History

Two years after the first broadcast in 1921 of the then still known as WJZ station moved in May 1923 a small studio in New Jersey in a larger in the U.S. state of New York.

The call sign of the station in 1953 on WABC as the " flagship" of the American Broadcasting Company was changed. With "The Sound of New York " ( German: The New York Sound) - in common parlance called " Top 40 " - WABC led ten years later an innovative format. The audience of the station expanded to 1976 to over five million listeners weekly from.

In the May 10, 1982 WABC changed its broadcasting format from music to talk radio stations.

In February 1996, merged WABC and The Walt Disney Company.