WPRV
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| City | Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Broadcast area | Providence metropolitan area |
| Branding | AM 790 |
| Slogan | Talk and Business |
| Frequency | 790 kHz |
| First air date | June 14, 1922 |
| Format | Talk radio |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 64840 |
| Callsign meaning | PRoVidence |
| Affiliations | Westwood One |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WEAN-FM, WPRO, WPRO-FM, WWKX, WWLI |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 790business.com |
WPRV (790 AM, "AM 790") is a radio station located in Providence, Rhode Island. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and airs a Talk radio format. The station's studios are located in East Providence and the transmitter site is located separately in East Providence just east of the Seekonk River. The station operates at 5,000 watts around the clock and serves the Providence metropolitan area. While its sister station 630 WPRO airs mostly local talk shows, WPRV's schedule mainly comes from nationally syndicated talk programs, much of which are produced by Cumulus Media subsidiary Westwood One.
Weekday programming includes Imus in the Morning at the start of the day. Imus is followed by Chris Plante from Cumulus' Washington, D.C. talk station WMAL, Dave Ramsey, Red Eye Radio overnight, and with some local programs in the afternoon. Westwood One national news airs at the top of each hour. WPRV also serves as the Providence affiliate for New York Yankees baseball as well as the Boston Celtics and Brown University Football and Men's Basketball.
WPRV was originally WEAN, Rhode Island's first radio station (those call letters now belong to a sister FM station). It was originally owned by the Shepard Stores of Boston, and starting in the late 1920s, receiving programming from sister station WNAC, now WRKO. This would form the cornerstone of the Yankee Network, a regional radio service feeding newscasts and other programs throughout the region.
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