WBYN (AM)
| City | Lehighton, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Lehigh Valley |
| Branding | ESPN Lehigh Valley |
| Slogan | Lehigh Valley Sports Radio |
| Frequency | 1160 kHz |
| First air date | 1962 (as WYNS) |
| Format | Sports (WEEX simulcast) |
| Power | 4,000 watts day 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 69688 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°49′3.00″N 75°41′31.00″W / 40.8175000°N 75.6919444°W |
| Former callsigns | WYNS (1962–2005) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner |
Connoisseur Media (Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WEEX, WODE-FM, WTKZ, WWYY |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | espnlv.com |
WBYN (1160 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Lehighton, Pennsylvania, USA. The station is owned by Connoisseur Media, through licensee Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC.
It broadcasts a sports format and features programming from ESPN Radio. Until January 4, 2016 the station ran a wide array of Christian programs ranging from local church services to national political religious features to national radio preachers and teachers. The station also previously played a moderate amount of inspirational music.
The station was signed-on in 1962 by Martin Phillip under the call letters WYNS (pronounced wins). Phillip sold the station to Ragan Henry in 2000. Following financial losses, Henry took WYNS off-the-air on December 31, 2002; in 2003, he sold WYNS to Nassau Broadcasting Partners. Following the sale, the station, which had been an oldies station, began carrying sports radio programming from ESPN Radio, simulcast from sister station WEEX in Easton, PA. (WYNS had abandoned the oldies format in 1998 in favor of country music, but subsequently reversed that change.)
In 2005, WBYN, a co-located Christian FM station was leased in an LMA to Nassau, with plans to eventually purchase that FM station. The call letters were changed to the current WBYN on September 25, 2005, when the station started simulcasting WBYN-FM. The simulcast continued until the winter of 2006 when the FM station changed formats to an Adult Rock Hits format called Frank FM and call signs to WFKB. WBYN's religious format remained on AM 1160 and on WFKB-FM HD-2. Nassau continued to manage WFKB with plans to buy that. After being unable to negotiate a purchase of WFKB or extend the LMA, WDAC Radio took back operations of WFKB on March 15, 2009. On March 31, 2009, WFKB dropped the Adult Rock Hits format, reverted to a religious format, and reverted to WBYN-FM calls.
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