WWKB

WWKB (1520 <a href="/facts/KHz/6Wshj5qm">kHz</a>) is a commercial AM radio station in <a href="/facts/Buffalo%2c_New_York/PVfdkYft">Buffalo, New York</a>. It broadcasts a <a href="/facts/Sports_gambling/UdGNRcyF">sports gambling</a> format and is one of two <a href="/facts/Sports_radio/aItE110k">sports radio</a> stations owned and operated by <a href="/facts/Audacy%2c_Inc./dmI5082H">Audacy, Inc.</a> in the Buffalo market. WWKB's Buffalo sister station <a href="/facts/WGR/dDTXkfR3">WGR</a> primarily broadcasts local sports programming. The studios are on Corporate Parkway in <a href="/facts/Amherst%2c_New_York/jHthhw3M">Amherst, New York</a>. The station used the WKBW callsign from its founding in 1926 until 1986, and during various periods, previously carried pop-rock music and talk radio.
WWKB broadcasts with a power of 50,000 watts, the maximum permitted for AM stations in the U.S. It is one of two 50,000 watt AM stations in <a href="/facts/Western_New_York/9jaHzFmB">Western New York</a>, along with <a href="/facts/WHAM_(AM)/MW0xF8Yy">WHAM</a> in <a href="/facts/Rochester%2c_New_York/dfEIYtDu">Rochester</a>. WWKB is a <a href="/facts/Clear_channel_station/DHpMyBSL">clear channel station</a>, sharing its <a href="/facts/List_of_North_American_broadcast_station_classes/7Xw18Foy">Class A</a> status on 1520 kHz with <a href="/facts/KOKC_(AM)/WBDtDg22">KOKC</a> in <a href="/facts/Oklahoma_City/o7P8l8Cd">Oklahoma City</a>. WWKB uses a <a href="/facts/Directional_antenna/oLesxknQ">directional antenna</a> with a three-<a href="/facts/Tower_array/Xv3BwKSb">tower array</a>. Its <a href="/facts/Transmitter/nFYghtKv">transmitter</a> site is shared with WGR on Big Tree Road in <a href="/facts/Blasdell%2c_New_York/pVYPTWb7">Blasdell, New York</a>.
WWKB's primary daytime signal covers all of Western New York, including Rochester, as well as the <a href="/facts/Southern_Tier/GFWTQzpo">Southern Tier</a>. It provides secondary coverage to much of <a href="/facts/Southern_Ontario/17YJU0fK">Southern Ontario</a>, including <a href="/facts/Toronto/cnXH7881">Toronto</a>, and can be heard as far east as <a href="/facts/Kingston%2c_Ontario/T6VmsSx4">Kingston</a>.
At night, to mutually protect KOKC from interference, it must direct its signal eastward. Thus, while WWKB can be heard across most of the eastern half of North America at night, its signal is spotty only 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Buffalo. Local residents remain largely unaware that the antenna array is internationally famous for sending WWKB's nighttime signal to all over Nordic countries on a regular basis. The directional nighttime signal has resulted the station being commonly heard in parts of Finland and Sweden using special DX equipment during winter months. A group of Scandinavian <a href="/facts/DXing/AezP2Me8">radio reception enthusiasts</a> visited for conference at a Camp Road motel, to view the transmitter array, apparently to photograph and measure it.

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