WGR
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| City | Buffalo, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Western New York |
| Branding | WGR Sports Radio 550 |
| Slogan | Western New York's Sports Leader |
| Frequency | 550 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 98.5-2 WKSE-HD2 (Niagara Falls) |
| First air date | May 22, 1922 |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 5.000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 56101 |
| Callsign meaning | World's Greatest Radio |
| Affiliations |
Sabres Hockey Network Westwood One Sports Cumulus Media Networks Buffalo Bills Radio Network |
| Owner |
Entercom Communications (Entercom Buffalo License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WBEN, WKSE, WWKB, WTSS, WWWS, WLKK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wgr550.com |
WGR, or WGR Sports Radio 550, is an all sports radio station in Buffalo, New York that broadcasts on 550 AM. It is the flagship station of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, carrying a mostly locally originated sports talk and play-by-play lineup. Its studios are located in Amherst, New York, and transmitter in suburban Hamburg, New York. Although it has a power of 5,000 watts, during the day its signal can be heard as far north as Barrie, Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario, as far west as Windsor, Ontario, as far east as Syracuse, and as far south as Sandusky, OH and Youngstown, Ohio. At night its signal can be heard as far north as Sudbury, Barrie and Peterborough, Ontario, as far west as Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, as far east as Batavia, and as far south as Jamestown and Olean. In nearby Erie, Pennsylvania the station has a city-grade signal, primarily in Erie's eastern suburbs. Under ownership of Entercom, its studios are located on Corporate Parkway in Amherst, New York.
The history of one of Buffalo's earliest radio stations has its roots at sea. On April 1, 1921 the Governor, a passenger ship, sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean after collision with a freighter, the West Hartland. The passenger ship’s assigned radio call letters were WGR. Due to maritime superstition, the call sign was never reissued to another ship and reverted to a pool of available call signs for new radio stations.
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