WERE (AM)
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| City | Cleveland Heights, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Cleveland |
| Branding | NewsTalk 1490 |
| Slogan | The People's Station |
| Frequency | 1490 kHz |
| First air date | December 12, 1947 |
| Format | News/talk |
| Power | 1,000 watts (daytime) 1,000 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 74472 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°30′48.00″N 81°36′5.00″W / 41.5133333°N 81.6013889°W |
| Former callsigns | WSRS (1947–58) WJMO (1958–2007) |
| Affiliations |
Syndication One Westwood One |
| Owner |
Radio One (Blue Chip Broadcasting Licenses, Ltd.) |
| Sister stations | WENZ, WJMO, WZAK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | newstalkcleveland |
WERE (1490 AM) – branded NewsTalk 1490 – is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Owned by Radio One, the station serves Greater Cleveland. In the Cleveland radio market, WERE is the AM affiliate for The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and the sole affiliate for Redding News Review and Red Eye Radio, while sharing Keepin' it Real with Rev. Al Sharpton with sister station WJMO.
Its studios are located along the Euclid Avenue Corridor in Cleveland's east side, while the station transmitter resides near University Circle.
In 1932, the FCC assigned the call letters WERE to a station in Erie, Pennsylvania, which had been known as WEDH.
WSRS, founded by Samuel R. Sague on December 12, 1947, broadcast for 24-hours a day on 1490 kHz while licensed to suburban Cleveland Heights, and had an FM sister station of WSRS-FM at 95.3 MHz (now WKRK-FM). WSRS (AM)/WSRS-FM billed itself as the "Community Information Voice of Cleveland".
On February 1, 1958, Friendly Broadcasting of Columbus assumed control of WSRS 1490-AM and 95.3-FM from Sam R. Sague, and switched callsigns, studios/facilities, and staffs, selling off their former frequencies to Tuschman Broadcasting Company. WJMO took over the former WSRS offices at 2156 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, and WSRS-FM became WJMO-FM, later WCUY. The 1540-AM facility became WABQ with the switch (whose format and call letters currently reside at 1460-AM) and the 106.5 facility ultimately signed on as WABQ-FM, and became WXEN in 1960. The 1540-AM frequency is currently WWGK, while the 106.5 facility is now home to WHLK.
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