WINE (AM)
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| City | Brookfield, Connecticut |
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| Broadcast area | Danbury, Connecticut |
| Branding | Sportsradio 940 |
| Frequency | 940 kHz |
| First air date | 1964 |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 680 watts day 4 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 15389 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°29′35″N 73°25′45″W / 41.49306°N 73.42917°WCoordinates: 41°29′35″N 73°25′45″W / 41.49306°N 73.42917°W |
| Affiliations | CBS Sports Radio |
| Owner |
Townsquare Media (Townsquare Media Danbury License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WDBY, WPUT, WRKI |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 940 Sports Radio |
WINE (940 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Brookfield, Connecticut, United States, it serves the Danbury area. The station is owned by Townsquare Media. In the 1970s and early 1980s WINE was a Top 40 station. As the audience migrated to the FM band, WINE became a full-service adult contemporary station.
In the 1990s WINE became part of an all-news network that included WNLK, which both became newstalk a few years later. After being sold to Cumulus, WINE spent a few years as a nostalgia station, along with sister station WPUT in Brewster, New York. Both became part of ESPN Radio 24/7 but switched to CBS Sports Radio on January 2, 2013. WINE's nighttime signal is very weak at 4 watts. WPUT operated daytime only.
WINE's longtime competitor is 800 AM WLAD in Danbury. WLAD is now a newstalk station. WINE's FM sister station is rock station, WRKI, as well as Patterson, New York's WDBY, which has a booster station in Danbury.
In December 2012, WPUT and WINE became CBS Sports Radio's 940SportsRadio
On August 30, 2013, a deal was announced in which Townsquare Media would acquire 53 Cumulus stations, including WINE, for $238 million. The deal is part of Cumulus' acquisition of Dial Global; Townsquare and Dial Global are both controlled by Oaktree Capital Management. The sale to Townsquare was completed on November 14, 2013.
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