WEPN (AM)
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| City | New York City |
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| Broadcast area | New York City area |
| Branding | ESPN Deportes Nueva York 1050 AM |
| Frequency | 1050 kHz |
| First air date | March 19, 1922 (license, as WHN) |
| Format | Commercial; Sports |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65636 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°46′36″N 74°03′08″W / 40.77667°N 74.05222°W |
| Callsign meaning | "W-ESPN" |
| Former callsigns | WHN (1922–1948 and 1962–1987) WMGM (1948–1962) WFAN (1987–1988) WUKQ (1988–1989) WEVD (1989–2003) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Deportes Radio |
| Owner |
The Walt Disney Company (New York AM Radio, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WABC-TV, WEPN-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live WEPN-AM |
| Website | espndeportes |
WEPN (1050 AM) is a 24-hour Hispanic sports talk formatted radio station in New York City featuring national and local sports talk programs and live broadcasts of sports matches. It is the New York affiliate for ESPN Deportes Radio, owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, the network's owner. Its transmitter site is located on the border of Secaucus and North Bergen, New Jersey, and its studios are on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
It is the radio home for the Spanish language broadcasts of the New York Jets of the NFL, the New York Rangers of the NHL, the New York Mets of MLB and the New York Red Bulls of MLS.
The 1050 frequency has a long history prior to this format. Starting in the 1920s as WHN, it played a diversified format. It was renamed WMGM in the late 1940s, continuing the same format until a switch to rock & roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. As WHN again, it played adult standards in the 1960s and country music in the 1970s and 1980s (the format it was best known for). In the late 1980s as WFAN it was the original frequency for the very successful first of its kind all-sports station. Then began a truly convoluted set of ownership, call letter, and format changes from the Spanish language WUKQ to WEVD, a low-rated brokered station in the 1990s, to today's incarnation as WEPN.
Originally owned by the Ridgewood Times newspaper, WHN was one of the first radio stations in New York City, going on the air on March 18, 1922, at AM frequency 833. Original shows included children's programming. A court case in the 1920s against AT&T established some of the early legal principles for American broadcasting.
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