WRPN (AM)
Appearance
Frequency | 1600 kHz |
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Branding | Your Hometown Station AM1600 |
Programming | |
Format | Classic hits |
Affiliations | Fox News |
Ownership | |
Owner | Hometown Broadcasting, LLC. |
WISS, WAUH | |
History | |
First air date | 1957 (as WCWC) |
Former call signs | WCWC (1957-1998) |
Call sign meaning | W RiPoN[1] |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 54489 |
Class | B |
Power | 5,000 watts day 5,000 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°49′1.00″N 88°50′49.00″W / 43.8169444°N 88.8469444°W |
Translator(s) | 103.1 W276CO (Fond du Lac) |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wrpnam.com |
WRPN (1600 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to the town of Ripon, Wisconsin, United States. The station is currently owned by Radio One Communications, LLC. and features programming from ABC Radio.[2] Its original call letters were WCWC, which stood for "Central Wisconsin Canning", the owners of the station. WCWC at one time also had a co-owned FM station, first at 95.9 MHz and later at 96.1 MHz. The call letters were originally WCWC-FM, then later WYUR.
References
- ^ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
- ^ "WRPN Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
External links
- WRPN radio station website
- Facility details for Facility ID WRPN ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- Template:FMQ
- W276CO at FCCdata.org