WCCM (AM)
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| City | Methuen, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Boston |
| Branding | Nossa Rádio 1570 |
| Frequency | 1570 kHz |
| First air date | December 22, 1963 |
| Format | Ethnic |
| Language(s) | Brazilian Portuguese |
| Power | 31,000 watts day 102 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 22798 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°40′26.72″N 71°11′25.82″W / 42.6740889°N 71.1905056°W |
| Callsign meaning | call letters originally used on 800 AM; attempt at a Roman numeral for 800 (subtract CC (200) from M (1000) to get 800) |
| Former callsigns | WMLO (1963–1979) WBVD (1979–1984) WNSH (1984–2012) WMVX (2012–2017) |
| Operator | ICGG Television and Radio |
| Owner | Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Limited Partnership |
| Sister stations | WCEC, WMVX, WNNW |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Nossa Rádio 1570 |
WCCM (1570 AM; "Nossa Rádio 1570") is a radio station licensed to Methuen, Massachusetts, United States. The station is owned by Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Limited Partnership, a partnership between Pat Costa and his chief investor, The Eagle-Tribune. WCCM broadcasts in Brazilian Portuguese and airs ethnic programming provided by ICGG Television and Radio. The station is branded as "Nossa Rádio 1570", with "Nossa" translated as "Our Radio."
The station signed on December 22, 1963 as WMLO, a 500-watt radio station licensed to serve Beverly, Massachusetts. It changed its call letters to WBVD on December 5, 1979 and to WNSH on July 1, 1984. Its studios have been located in Danvers, in Salem (at Pickering Wharf), and on the second floor of a hardware warehouse in Hamilton. In 2011, Willow Farm, Inc. sold WNSH for $400,000 to Costa-Eagle Broadcasting. In March 2011, Costa-Eagle changed the station to "Viva 1570". The format changed from tropical music, simulcasting Costa-Eagle sister station WNNW, to Spanish Adult Contemporary. On November 26, 2012, the call letters were changed to WMVX. The station switched to its Brazilian Portuguese ethnic format in July 2014. On October 8, 2014, the New England Revolution announced that WMVX would become the team's Portuguese-language flagship station.
In January 2013, WMVX was granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) construction permit to increase day power to 50,000 watts. In 2016, the station switched its city of license from Beverly to Methuen with its transmitter in Andover, Massachusetts. Even with the anticipated increase to 50,000 watts, the maximum AM power allowed by the FCC, the station must still reduce power at night to 102 watts because 1570 kHz is a Mexican clear channel frequency and WMVX must protect XERF in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, the Class A station on 1570.
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