WRKO
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| City | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | New England |
| Branding | WRKO AM 680 |
| Slogan | The Voice Of Boston |
| Frequency | 680 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 93.7-2 WEEI-HD2 97.7-3 WKAF-HD3 107.3-3 WAAF-HD3 |
| First air date | 1922 (as WNAC) |
| Format | Talk |
| Language(s) | English |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 1902 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°29′25″N 71°13′05″W / 42.490278°N 71.218056°W |
| Callsign meaning |
Radio-Keith-Orpheum (call sign adopted while owned by RKO General) |
| Former callsigns | WNAC (1922–1967) |
| Affiliations | ABC News Radio |
| Owner |
Entercom (Entercom License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WEEI-FM, WKAF, WAAF, WEEI |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wrko |
WRKO (680 AM) is a radio station based in Boston, Massachusetts, currently owned by Entercom Communications Corp. Its transmitter is located in Burlington, Massachusetts, next to the Burlington Mall, and the station's studios are located in Boston's Allston district.
WRKO is Boston's second most powerful station. A 50,000-watt class B station, it provides at least secondary coverage to portions of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine during the day. Its signal is highly directional at night to protect a number of clear-channel stations on adjacent frequencies, and CFTR on 680 kHz in Toronto, Canada.
Founded in 1922 and settling on 1230 kilocycles (kilohertz) a few years later, WNAC was founded by John Shepard III, a Boston businessman whose father John Shepard Jr. had a department-store empire throughout New England and saw the potential of radio to publicize himself and his stores enough to finance his son's venture. The previous month WEAN (another Shepard-owned radio station) went on air in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1927, WNAC became one of the sixteen charter members of the CBS Radio Network, and remained a CBS affiliate for the next decade.
In the 1920s, using a 100-foot antenna connected by a clothesline to the building's roof, WNAC arranged the first network broadcast in radio history with station WEAF in New York City. In 1929, WNAC moved to new studios inside the Hotel Buckminster, with the entrance on the Brookline Avenue side (21 Brookline Avenue), which would become the station's home for the next four decades.
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