WWDB
FCC | |
| Facility ID | 74085 |
|---|---|
| Class | D |
| Power | 10,000 watts (day) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°09′15.00″N 75°22′10.00″W / 40.1541667°N 75.3694444°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | wwdbam |
WWDB (860
studios and offices in the "555 Building" on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and broadcasts mostly paid brokered programming. Shows on health, money, gardening, home repair, real estate, religion and politics are found on the schedule. Some programs are broadcast in Hungarian, Ukrainian, Yiddish
, Italian and other languages. Hosts pay for their time on the air and may advertise their services or products during their programs.
WWDB is a
for its nighttime operations.History
On December 6, 1926, the station
AM 1340 with WHAT. Through most of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, WTEL was best known as a Foreign language broadcaster, with programs in several languages. (The WTEL call sign is now used on AM 610
.)
In October 1998, the call letters changed to WWDB.[4] The station began airing a talk format as a complement to sister station to WWDB-FM. Some of the FM station's older personalities were moved to the AM station in an attempt to increase the FM's appeal in younger demographics without alienating older listeners.
The strategy was not successful, and by February 2000, the WTEL call sign had returned, and the station switched to
urban gospel music.[4] The gospel format lasted only until November 2000, when the call letters were changed back to WWDB and switched to business talk.[4] Business talk, sometimes augmented with general-interest talk from syndicated personalities such as Don Imus and Mancow Muller
, was the station's format until the end of the broadcast day on August 1, 2010.
The WWDB call letters, which stand for the names of former owners "William and Dolly Banks", were first used in Philadelphia at
adult contemporary
format during some hours, then reverted to jazz full-time, then adopted a talk format in 1975. The talk format was one of the first successful ones on the FM band in the United States, lasting until November 2000. Until WWDB-FM's debut, almost all American talk stations were found on AM radio.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WWDB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WWDB
- ^ "A Chronology of AM Radio Broadcasting (1900-1960)".
- ^ FCC
- ^ "NorthEast Radio Watch". June 20, 2011. Archived from the original on June 21, 2011. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
External links
- Official website
- WWDB in the FCC AM station database
- WWDB in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for WWDB