WEEI (AM)
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| City | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Boston |
| Branding | ESPN on WEEI |
| Frequency | 850 kHz |
| First air date | June 20, 1929 (license, as WHDH) |
| Format | Sports radio |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 1912 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°16′41.4″N 71°16′0.2″W / 42.278167°N 71.266722°W (NAD83) |
| Callsign meaning | moved from AM 590, founded by Edison Electric Illuminating |
| Former callsigns | WHDH (1929–1994) |
| Former frequencies | 830 kHz (1929–1941) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner |
Entercom (operated via LMA by the Walt Disney Company) (Entercom License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WAAF, WEEI-FM, WKAF, WRKO |
| Website | ESPN WEEI 850 |
WEEI is a sports radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, that broadcasts on 850 kHz from a transmitter in Needham, Massachusetts, and is owned by Entercom Communications and operated by The Walt Disney Company, ESPN Radio's majority owner, under a local marketing agreement. Studios are located in Brighton, Massachusetts. The station currently broadcasts programming from ESPN Radio; until October 4, 2012, the station aired a highly rated locally produced sports talk format, which is now heard on WEEI-FM (93.7 FM).
WEEI traces its roots to its original owner, Edison Electric Illuminating (hence the call letters). Edison placed the station on the air September 29, 1924. The station broadcast on various frequencies over the next several years, settling on 590 kHz in 1927. In 1926, WEEI became a charter member of the NBC Red Network and remained an NBC Red affiliate until 1936, when the station was leased by CBS and became an affiliate of that network. CBS bought WEEI outright from Boston Edison on August 31, 1942. An FM sister station, WEEI-FM (103.3 FM, now WODS), went on the air in 1948. Until 1960, WEEI, through CBS Radio, was the last Boston radio station to devote a large amount of its program schedule to "traditional" network radio programming of daytime soap operas, comedy shows, variety shows, and similar fare.
For the remainder of the 1960s, WEEI was New England's first talk radio station and home of such hosts as Howard Nelson, Jim Westover and of Paul Benzaquin, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in Boston history. In the 1960s, the daily WEEIdea feature presented cleaning and cooking tips from housewives.
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