WROL
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| City | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Boston |
| Branding | AM 950 WROL |
| Slogan | The Spirit of Boston |
| Frequency | 950 kHz |
| First air date | January 29, 1927 (current license dates to October 8, 1950) |
| Format | Religion, talk, Irish music |
| Power | 5,000 watts daytime 90 watts nighttime |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 9139 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°26′15.00″N 70°59′40.00″W / 42.4375000°N 70.9944444°W |
| Callsign meaning | Similar to former WORL calls (which were taken by an Orlando station) |
| Former callsigns | WBSO (1927–1935) WORL (1935–1949; 1950–1966) WRYT (1966–1978) |
| Former frequencies | 1240 kHz (1927) 780 kHz (1927–1929) 920 kHz (1929–1941) |
| Affiliations | Salem Radio Network |
| Owner |
Salem Communications (Salem Media Group, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WBIX, WEZE, WWDJ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WROL is a radio station in the Boston, Massachusetts radio market. The station is owned by Salem Communications, and is located on 950 kHz on the AM dial. Most of WROL's programming is religious including local ministers as well as national radio hosts such as Dr. Charles Stanley, Jay Sekulow and Eric Metaxas. Former WBZ-TV news anchor-turned-minister Liz Walker also has a program on the station. WROL also airs several Irish music blocks on weekends, including the Irish Hit Parade on Saturdays and A Feast of Irish Music on Sundays.
WROL operates with 5000 watts by day but must reduce power to 90 watts at night to protect other stations on 950 kHz. WROL uses a non-directional transmitter located off Route 107 in the Rumney Marsh Reservation in Saugus, Massachusetts. WROL is one of three religious formatted radio stations in the Boston media market owned by Salem Communications. 590 WEZE also airs religious programming and 1150 WWDJ carries religious shows in Spanish.
WROL's history dates back to 1927 and WBSO, owned by Babson College. The station moved to Boston in 1935 after a sale and became WORL. During the late 1930s, WORL was the first station in Boston to adopt a popular-music format ("The 920 Club", named after the station's former frequency; the title remained even after the move to 950 on March 29, 1941) with disc jockeys spinning the tunes. Although only a daytimer then, WORL built up a following as an entertaining alternative to the daytime programming elsewhere on the Boston radio dial.
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