WWWS
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| City | Buffalo, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Buffalo-Niagara Falls |
| Branding | AM 1400 Solid Gold Soul |
| Frequency | 1400 kHz |
| Format | Urban Oldies |
| Audience share | 1.0 (Sp'08 P2, R&R) |
| Power | 745 watts |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 56104 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°55′34.00″N 78°50′28.00″W / 42.9261111°N 78.8411111°W |
| Former callsigns | WXBX (1990-1991) WGKT (1991-1993) |
| Affiliations | ABC Radio |
| Owner |
Entercom (Entercom Buffalo License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WBEN, WGR, WWKB, WTSS, WKSE, WLKK |
| Website | Official website |
WWWS (1400 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Urban Oldies format. Licensed to Buffalo, New York, USA, the station serves the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area. The station is currently owned by Entercom and features programming from ABC Radio. It is owned and operated by Entercom Communications. It has a transmitter in Buffalo, east of Delaware Park, while it has studios located on Corporate Parkway in Amherst, New York.
WWWS went on the air in 1934 as WBNY, and has featured an assortment of famous radio personalities including John Otto, Danny Neaverth and Casey Kasem. During its tenure, the radio frequency has featured numerous call signs (most notably WYSL, which was the station's calls through the mid-1980s) and disparate formats, ranging from Beautiful Music to Top 40 to heavy metal, to its present format of "Solid Gold Soul".
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the station was owned by top 40 format innovator Gordon McLendon of Dallas, Texas (well known for helming legendary Top 40 stations in the continental U.S. such as KLIF in Dallas, Texas and WAKY in Louisville, Kentucky), whose ownership caused many of its personalities to use the station as a springboard to national or international prominence. Under McLendon's ownership, young personalities who would later become prominent on radio and television in the upstate New York region, including Kevin O'Connell, George Hamberger and Jim McLaughlin, got their first foothold in Buffalo (then a top-20 radio market) at WYSL. The station's ability to develop emerging talent made it competitive in the immediate Buffalo city and inner-ring suburban area despite a weak signal, especially when compared with 50,000 watt format rival WKBW, which could blanket upstate New York by day and the eastern seaboard of North America by night.
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