WOKR (AM)

WOKR
City Brockport, New York
Branding The Team
Frequency 1590 kHz
First air date 1970 (as WADD at 1560)
Format Sports (WRSB simulcast)
Power 1,000 watts day
1,000 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 15767
Transmitter coordinates 43°11′44.00″N 77°57′5.00″W / 43.1955556°N 77.9513889°W / 43.1955556; -77.9513889
Callsign meaning OK Rochester (from the former WOKR-TV)
Former callsigns WADD (1970-1976)
WWBK (1976-1980)
WJBT (1980-1984)
WASB (1984-2015)
Former frequencies 1560 kHz (1970-1979)
Affiliations CBS Sports Radio
Owner Brian McGlynn
(Genesee Media Corporation)
Webcast Listen Live
Website theteam.fm

WOKR (1590 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format to the Brockport, New York, USA area. The station is currently owned by Brian McGlynn, through licensee Genesee Media Corporation.[1]

History

The station went on the air in 1970 as WADD and was owned by a group of local businessmen. The station broadcast on 1560 kHz with a power of 1 thousand watts, utilizing a three tower in-line directional antenna array - daytime only to protect clear-channel WQEW. In 1976 the station was purchased by Canal Communications, inc. and the call letters changed to WWBK. Format was community oriented pop. In 1979 WWBK obtained a construction permit allowing the change to 1,000 watts full-time operation on 1590 kHz. The facility was sold in 1979 and the call letters changed to WJBT on 1980-04-14. On 1984-05-24, the station changed its call sign to WASB.

The station was purchased by Genesee Media Corporation on July 8, 2013 at a price of $450,000, which included WRSB AM, Canandaigua, NY. A call sign change to WOKR followed on January 22, 2015; the WOKR call was formerly heard on TV channel 13 (now WHAM-TV) for most of its existence (they had been parked on a station in the Mohawk Valley for several years until a change in that station's ownership made the WOKR calls available for use in Rochester again).[2]

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