WIOD
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| City | Miami, Florida |
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| Broadcast area |
South Florida (targets Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) |
| Branding | Newsradio 610 WIOD |
| Slogan | Miami's News, Traffic and Weather Station 24/7 |
| Frequency | 610 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | WBGG-FM HD2 105.9-2 |
| First air date | January 19, 1926 |
| Format | Analog/HD: Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts 10,000 watts under special temporary authority |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 14242 |
| Callsign meaning | Wonderful Isle Of Dreams |
| Affiliations |
AccuWeather Fox News Radio Wall Street Journal Radio WTVJ |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WBGG-FM, WHYI-FM, WINZ, WMIA-FM, WMIB, WZTU |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.wiod.com |
WIOD (610 AM) is a talk radio-formatted radio station in Miami, Florida, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. Its studios are located at the iHeart Broadcasting Complex in Miramar and the transmitter site is in North Bay Village. Most of WIOD's weekday schedule is made up of nationally syndicated talk programs, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and George Noory. A weekday morning news-talk program is hosted by Jimmy Cefalo.
Experimental broadcasts began in the spring of 1925 by Carl Graham Fisher, a Miami Beach developer. The station made its formal debut on the South Florida airwaves on January 19, 1926. Carl Fisher selected WIOD as the call letters signifying the "Wonderful Isle of Dreams" to commemorate Collins Island, on which the station was situated. WIOD is Florida's seventh oldest continuously licensed broadcast radio station.
From 1959 to 1962, the call letters were changed to WCKR (for Cox-Knight Broadcasting, who also owned television station WCKT, now WSVN). Branded Wacker Radio, it broadcast a middle-of-the-road format, but offered a Top 40 program at night, featuring Rick Shaw. It also carried NBC Radio's "Monitor" program on weekends. To accommodate WCKT, a new addition housing television studios was built on Broadcast Key in North Bay Village, Florida.
On June 16, 1981 WIOD began operating with 10,000 watts day and night to overcome interference caused by a station in Cuba. This special temporary authority, granted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has been renewed on a regular basis since then.
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