WECK
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| City | Cheektowaga, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area |
| Branding | Timeless WECK |
| Frequency | 1230 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 102.9 W275BB (Cheektowaga) |
| First air date | August 1956 (as WNIA) |
| Format | Adult Standards |
| Power | 1,000 watts AM 220 watts (FM translator) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 1914 |
| Callsign meaning | KummelWECK (a popular local sandwich bread) |
| Former callsigns | WNIA (1956-1979) |
| Affiliations |
Westwood One Premiere Networks Fox News Radio |
| Owner | Dick Greene (sale to Buddy Shula pending) (Culver Communications) |
| Sister stations | WLVL |
| Website | timelessweck.com |
WECK (1230 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Cheektowaga, New York and serving the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The station airs an adult standards music format branded as "Timeless WECK." WECK carries the nationally syndicated music service from Westwood One known as America's Best Music, although some hours are locally-hosted. In the evening, it carries syndicated personality Delilah. Fox News Radio updates are heard on WECK followed by local news and weather.
The studios, offices and transmitter are on Genesee Street in Cheektowaga, although the station uses Buffalo as its mailing address. WECK programming is simulcast on FM translator station W275BB at 102.9 MHz. The station is currently owned by Dick Greene's Culver Communications; a sale to Radio One Buffalo LLC is pending.
In August of 1956, the station first signed on as WNIA. The call letters referred to the nearby Niagara Falls. The station was founded by Gordon P. Brown, who also owned WSAY (now WXXI) in Rochester, New York. After Brown's death, WNIA was sold to Quid Me Broadcasting, a group headed by local broadcast account executive Chet Musialowski. Musialowski was also General Manager of the station during the Quid Me years (1980–1988).
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