WSAN
| City | Allentown, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | ESPN Deportes Lehigh Valley 1470 AM |
| Slogan | Allentown/Easton/Bethlehem's Spanish Sports Station! |
| Frequency | 1470 kHz |
| First air date | May 24, 1923 |
| Format | Sports |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 18233 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°38′10″N 75°29′06″W / 40.63611°N 75.48500°W |
| Former callsigns | WYHM (9/11/06-4/2/07) WKAP (3/25/95-9/11/06) WXKW (4/15/85-3/25/95) WSAN (??-4/15/85) |
| Affiliations |
ESPN Deportes Radio Philadelphia Phillies Radio Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Capstar TX LLC) |
| Sister stations | WAEB (AM), WAEB (FM), WZZO |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 1470espndeportes.iheart.com |
WSAN is an AM radio station licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States and serves the Lehigh Valley. The station, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., broadcasts on 1470 kHz. It operates at 5000 watts, non-directional by day but using a directional antenna at night. Its studios and offices are in the iHeart Broadcasting Center in Whitehall Township and its transmitter is near the Whitehall Mall.
WSAN carries a Spanish-language sports radio format supplied by ESPN Deportes. It serves as the Lehigh Valley affiliate for Philadelphia Phillies radio broadcasts in English even though its regular programming is in Spanish.
AM 1470 began operation in May 24, 1923 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assigning it the call letters WCBA.Assabe and Sabina, a popular Pennsylvania German dialect radio program, was broadcast on the station from 1944 to 1955. They employed a popular music format. Through most of the 1970s, with the call letters WSAN, the station was a rare Progressive rock outlet on the AM dial, even though the format was found mostly on FM stations. (The call letters were chosen to echo pioneering FM progressive rock station KSAN in San Francisco.)
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