WRAW
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| [[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 1340 kHz |
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| Branding | NewsRadio 1340 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Talk |
| Network | Fox News Radio |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 69566 | |
| Class | C |
| Power | 1,000 watts unlimited |
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| Webcast | Listen live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | 1340wraw |
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WRAW (1340 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Reading, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and calls itself "Newsradio 1340 WRAW." It broadcasts a conservative talk radio format.
WRAW's transmitter is off South 9th Street in Reading, near the Schuylkill River.[2] It is powered at 1,000 watts. The service contour covers communities such as Ephrata, Pottstown, Kutztown, Boyertown and Hamburg.[3]
Programming
Weekdays begin with the R.J. Harris Breakfast Show simulcast from co-owned WHP in nearby Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The rest of the weekday line up features mostly syndicated shows from the co-owned Premiere Networks: The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, The Michael Berry Show and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.
On weekends, WRAW carries In the Garden with Ron Wilson, At Home with Gary Sullivan, Rich DeMuro on Tech, Bill Handel on the Law, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Armstrong & Getty and Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.
History
WRAW is one of the oldest radio stations in Pennsylvania. Although the station has reported that it signed on in September 1922,[4] contemporary government records state that it was first licensed on June 14, 1923 to the "Avenue Radio Shop (Horace D. Good)" at 106 Schuyikill Avenue in Reading, for 10 watts on 1260 kHz.[5] The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster.
In November 1928, WRAW was assigned by the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40 to 1310 kHz, sharing this frequency with Lancaster's WGAL.[6] On August 5, 1930, Good transferred station ownership to the Reading Broadcasting Company.[7] In 1934, WRAW was granted an unlimited assignment, after WGAL moved to 1500 kHz.[8] In 1941, the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement moved the stations on 1310 kHz, including WRAW, to 1340 kHz.[9]
In the 1960s and 1970s, the station had a Top 40 format. During the 1980s, it played a syndicated adult standards format, known as The Music of Your Life.
WRAW once broadcast in AM stereo using the C-QUAM system.[10]
On February 27, 2014, WRAW changed to Spanish contemporary, branded as "Template:Langr".[11] Programming was also heard on FM translator W222BY on 92.3 FM. The simulcast ended on August 8, 2019, after the translator was sold to Educational Media Foundation (EMF).
On August 12, 2019, WRAW ended Spanish programming and began airing a conservative talk format branded as "NewsRadio 1340 WRAW".[12] Another radio station in Reading, WEEU, discontinued airing Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated show in a cost-cutting measure stemming from its parent company's bankruptcy and sale. That prompted WRAW to pick up the broadcast, and carry other conservative talk programming, from co-owned Premiere Networks. After Limbaugh's death in 2021, WRAW, like other talk stations owned by iHeartMedia, switched to Limbaugh's replacement, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WRAW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WRAW
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."0.5 mV/m Service Contour for WRAW, 1340 kHz, Reading, PA". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ "Radio stations 40 or more years old in 1962: WRAW Reading, Pa.", Broadcasting, May 14, 1962, page 134.
- ^ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, July 2, 1923, page 3.
- ^ "Revised list of broadcasting stations, by frequency", Second Annual Report of the Federal Radio Commission for the Year Ended June 30, 1928, Together With Supplemental Report for the Period From July 1, 1928, to September 30, 1928, page 209.
- ^ "Alterations and corrections", Radio Service Bulletin, August 30, 1930, page 12.
- ^ "C. List of Broadcasting Services: (2) Changes to List, Radio Service Bulletin, June 1, 1934, pages 7-8.
- ^ "List of radio broadcast stations, alphabetically by call letters as of March 29, 1941", page 92.
- ^ "AM Stereo & TV Stereo: New Sound Dimensions" by Stan Prentiss, 1985, page 168.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rumba Rolls Into Reading". radioinsight.com. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WRAW Reading to Flip to Conservative Talk".
External links
- Official website
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- WRAW in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History Cards for WRAW (covering 1923—1981)". Federal Communications Commission. (Guide to reading History Cards)
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