WHLO
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| City | Akron, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Akron-Canton metro areas |
| Branding | 640 WHLO |
| Slogan | Akron Canton's News Talk |
| Frequency | 640 kHz |
| First air date | January 5, 1927 |
| Format | News/talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (daytime) 500 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 43858 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°04′47.00″N 81°38′45.00″W / 41.0797222°N 81.6458333°W |
| Callsign meaning | HELLO Radio |
| Former callsigns | WJAY (1927–36) WCLE (1936–45) WHKK (1945–60) |
| Former frequencies | 610 kHz (1927–45) |
| Affiliations |
iHeartRadio Kent State Golden Flashes Premiere Networks Wall Street Journal Radio Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (CC Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WARF, WHOF, WKDD, WRQK-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 640whlo |
WHLO (640 AM) – branded 640 WHLO – is a commercial radio station licensed to Akron, Ohio, serving both the Akron and Canton metro areas. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station broadcasts primarily a news/talk format. WHLO is the local affiliate for Fox News Radio; conservative talk programs The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, and The Schnitt Show; and overnight night talk shows The Dave Ramsey Show and Coast to Coast AM. The station also serves as the radio home of the Kent State Golden Flashes. The WHLO studios are located in North Canton, while the station transmitter resides in Copley. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WHLO is available online via iHeartRadio.
The station traces its origin to WJAY, which began broadcasting in Cleveland on January 5, 1927, on 610 kHz. WJAY was purchased on October 30, 1936 by United Broadcasting, which also owned WHK in Cleveland. The new owners changed the call sign from WJAY to WCLE. In 1945 as the FCC began implementing a ruling limiting station owners to a single AM outlet in a market, United Broadcasting moved WCLE to Akron, and changed the call sign to WHKK and the frequency to 640 kHz. In turn, United moved the 610 frequency to Columbus, Ohio to create WHKC from WAIU (formerly WBAV) which had been broadcasting daytime only on 640. WHKC became WTVN in the 1950s.
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