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WBEN
Broadcast area Buffalo
Branding "News Radio 930 WBEN"
Slogan The Voice of Buffalo
Frequency 930 (kHz)
First air date September, 1922
Format News radio
ERP 5 kW
Class B
Callsign meaning W Buffalo Evening News (was owned by the Buffalo Evening News (No longer the Evening Newspaper)
Owner Entercom Communications
Website WBEN.com

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History

The station that is now known as WBEN signed on in September 1922 as the arbitrarily assigned WMAK, operating out of Lockport, New York at 833 kHz. Events in September It is the start of the academic year in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Lockport New York can refer to either Lockport (city New York, in Niagara County NY The station later moved to Tonawanda (broadcasting at 1130 kHz there) and then Buffalo, landing on 900 kHz as a result of General Order 40. General Order 40 was an order issued on August 30, 1928 by the new Federal Radio Commission under the Radio Act of 1927 which provided for a reallocation In 1930, the Buffalo Evening News purchased WMAK and changed the call letters to WBEN. The Buffalo News is the primary Newspaper of the Buffalo New York, Metropolitan area and its surrounding Suburbs It is wholly owned In 1941, the station moved to its current position on the dial, at 930 kHz, as a result of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA). The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement, usually referred to as NARBA, is a treaty made in 1941 between the United States Canada Mexico Cuba the Dominican

WBEN was among the most active experimenters in Buffalo radio. In 1928, then-WMAK joined with WGY in Schenectady to demonstrate television technology. WGY is a 50000 Watt Radio station licensed to Schenectady, New York. Schenectady (skəˈnɛktədi Θkahnéhtati in Tuscarora) is a City in Schenectady County, New York, United States Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic In 1934, WBEN launched W8XH, the first ultra-shortwave radio station of its kind. In the early 1940s, WBEN's morning host was comedian and future national late-night television star Jack Paar (he left the station when drafted into the military during World War II, and opted not to return to Buffalo after the war). Jack Harold Paar ( May 1, 1918 &ndash January 27, 2004) was an American Radio and Television talk show host World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1946, WBEN was the first radio station in Buffalo to launch an FM radio station at 106. 5 MHz, and in 1948, it launched what would become WIVB, the first television station in Buffalo. WIVB-TV is the CBS Television affiliate in Buffalo New York. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 4 and its digital signal on UHF channel 39 A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and Video to Television receivers in a particular area

WBEN-FM would later move to 102. 5 and eventually become WTSS; it is still WBEN's corporate sister to this day. WTSS is an FM radio station located in Buffalo New York. The station branded as " Star 102 The 106. 5 frequency is now WYRK. WYRK is a Country music formatted Radio station located in Buffalo New York, and broadcasts from the top of the Rand Building in Buffalo with studios located

WBEN long enjoyed a premier position as a full-service radio station, first under Buffalo Evening News ownership, and then under the ownership and management of Larry Levite's locally-based Algonquin Broadcasting Company. The station won numerous regional and statewide awards for its news and public-service efforts. Levite presided over the gradual transition of WBEN from an adult contemporary format to its current news/talk format. In the early 1990s, he sold the WBEN stations to Kerby Confer's Keymarket Communications organization, and retired from the broadcasting business. Keymarket, in turn, later sold the properties to River City Broadcasting, which then merged with Sinclair Broadcasting. In 1999, Entercom Communications bought WBEN, as well as its competitor WGR, and most of Sinclair's other radio stations, when Sinclair decided to exit radio. Both had been hybrid news and sports talkers, and the two stations swapped personnel, so that WGR became all sports, and WBEN became the market's principal commercial news/talk station.

In 2006, WBEN began streaming its programming on the Internet.

For a brief period in late 2006, WBEN was the highest-rated radio station in Buffalo, New York, and also the highest-rated news/talk station in America, according to Arbitron. Arbitron ( is a Radio audience research company in the United States which collects listener data on radio audiences similar to that collected by Nielsen Media (This is likely due to a bump in listenership from the October snowstorm, which came during the Fall 2006 Arbitron survey period. The October 2006 Buffalo storm was an unusual early-season Lake effect snow storm that hit the Buffalo New York area and other surrounding areas of the United States ) WBEN regained the honor of being the most listened-to station in the region in Summer 2007.

Portions of the above come from the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Web site.

Programming

News department

See also

External links

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