WWJ (AM)
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| City | Detroit, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area |
Metro Detroit (daytime) (nighttime) |
| Branding | NewsRadio 950, WWJ |
| Slogan | "The newswatch never stops, on Detroit's #1 news station." (:05 past the hour) |
| Frequency | 950 kHz (also on HD Radio) 97.1 FM HD2 (WXYT-FM) |
| First air date | August 20, 1920 |
| Format | News |
| Language(s) | English |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B (Regional) |
| Facility ID | 9621 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°01′9″N 83°14′23″W / 42.01917°N 83.23972°W |
| Callsign meaning | None. Assigned after requesting a call that could be easily understood. |
| Former callsigns | 8MK (1920–1921) WBL (1921–1922) |
| Affiliations |
CBS Radio News ABC News Radio Michigan IMG Sports Network (flagship) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (sale to Entercom pending) (CBS Radio East Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WWJ-TV, WKBD-TV, WDZH, WOMC, WXYT, WXYT-FM, WYCD |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Detroit.CBSLocal.com |
WWJ, 950 AM (a regional broadcast frequency), is an all-news radio station located in Detroit, Michigan. Owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation, WWJ's studios are in the Panasonic Building in Southfield, and its transmitter is located near Newport.
WWJ began daily broadcasts on August 20, 1920, operating under an amateur radio license with the call sign "8MK". August 20, 2016 marked the beginning of its 97th year of broadcasting. The station has claimed to be "America's Pioneer Broadcasting Station", and where "commercial radio broadcasting began".
WWJ is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast in the HD Radio format.
WWJ's regular programming is news and weather. It is Michigan's only commercial all-news radio station, despite the fact that co-owned WWJ-TV (channel 62) is the sole CBS owned-and-operated television station without a local news presence. WWJ's main radio competition, especially in Flint and Ann Arbor, is the non-commercial Michigan Radio network.
WWJ is the flagship station for Michigan Wolverines football. In cases where there are schedule conflicts, it also carries sports events normally broadcast by sister stations (example: Detroit Tigers baseball games, carried when 97.1 The Ticket is broadcasting the Detroit Red Wings hockey playoffs.) WWJ has reduced the use of its main slogan, "All news, all the time", due to its occasional inclusion of sporting events.
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