WBEN (AM)
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| City | Buffalo, New York |
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| Branding | NewsRadio 930 WBEN |
| Slogan | Buffalo's News, Talk, Traffic and Weather Station |
| Frequency | 930 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 98.5-3 WKSE-HD3 |
| First air date | September 8, 1930 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 34381 |
| Callsign meaning | We're the Buffalo Evening News (was owned by the Buffalo Evening News, later rebranded as The Buffalo News) |
| Former callsigns | WMAK (1922-1930) |
| Affiliations | Premiere Radio Networks, CBS Radio News, Westwood One |
| Owner |
Entercom Communications (Entercom Buffalo License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WGR, WKSE, WWKB, WTSS, WWWS, WLKK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wben.com |
WBEN (930 kHz) is an AM radio station in Buffalo, New York broadcasting a News/Talk format. Its 5,000-Watt signal covers Buffalo and its suburbs, the Niagara Falls region and Western New York as well as part of southern Ontario, Canada. The station's website carries the signal 24/7 in real time and makes much of the programming available on podcast the same day. WBEN's Transmitter is located in Grand Island, New York. It has studios located on Corporate Parkway in Amherst, New York with its other sister stations under Entercom's ownership.
WBEN airs a mix of local and nationally syndicated programs. Local hosts/programs include "Buffalo's Morning News" with John Zach and Susan Rose", Sandy Beach, & Tom Bauerle. Syndicated shows from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory round out the weekday schedule. Weekends begin with morning news blocks and include programs on money, health, and repeats of Limbaugh and Hannity. The station is an affiliate of the CBS Radio News Network.
While WBEN signed on September 8, 1930, its history dates to the 1920s. WBEN initially used the facility built by the Norton Laboratories organization from Boston, as part of an experiment to send amplitude modulated voice transmissions between Niagara Falls, New York, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, as WMAK. When WMAK was launched in 1922 it operated initially from Lockport, New York at 833 kHz. The station later moved its transmitter to North Tonawanda, New York (broadcasting at 1130 kHz there) and then landing on 900 kHz, with 1,000 watts of power, as a result of General Order 40, which realigned American AM radio allocations in 1927–28. In the late 1920s WMAK was acquired by the Buffalo Broadcasting Company, based at Buffalo's Rand Building, which also controlled WGR and WKBW in Buffalo. WMAK was a charter member of the CBS Radio Network, being one of the 16 stations that aired the first CBS network program on September 18, 1927. The comedy duo of Stoopnagle and Budd began their careers at WMAK in 1930.
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