WICR (AM)

WICR, "West Indo-Caribbean Radio", is a Part 15 AM community radio station broadcasting in Richmond Hill, in the Queens, New York borough of New York City.

The station broadcasts over the air at 1620 AM as per provisions under 47 C.F.R. Part 15 via a network of FCC Certified Synchronous low-power AM Transmitters, and on the internet at icrradio.com. Its broadcasting is targeted towards the Indo-Caribbean American diasporas. Richmond Hill is the center of Indo-Caribbean / South Asian-origin immigrants in New York City from the Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Surinam and South Asia. Its daily programming includes News, Cricket, Bollywood and Indo-Caribbean music, and community affairs programs.

References

External links

WICR station website

Radio stations in the Metropolitan New York market
By AM frequency	570 660¹ 710¹ 770¹ 820 880¹ 1010 1050 1130¹ 1190 1280 1330 1380 1480 1560¹ 1600 1620² New Jersey 620 930 970 1430 1500 1530 1660 Westchester County, New York 1460
Apex/VHF FM	42.8
By FM frequency	87.7 88.9 89.1³ 89.9 90.3 (New York) 90.3 (Brooklyn) 90.7 91.5 92.3 93.9 95.1 95.5 96.3 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 101.1 101.9 102.7 104.3 104.7 105.1 106.3 106.7 107.5 New Jersey 88.3 88.7 89.1³ 89.5 90.3 91.1 93.1⁴ 94.7 95.9 97.5 99.1 100.3⁴ 103.1 105.9⁴ Long Island, New York 92.7 103.5⁴ Westchester County, New York 88.1 90.3 93.5 94.3 96.7 100.7 103.9 106.3 107.1
Via FM subcarrier	67 kHz Chinese Radio New York Gatewave radio reading service Radio Maria Stati Uniti (Italian) 92 kHz Chung Wah Chinese Broadcasting Company ICN Radio Radio Maria Estados Unidos (Spanish) RBC Radio
NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550
Digital radio by frequency & subchannel	710 770 880 1010 1280 1560 88.3-1 88.3-2 89.1-1³ 89.1-2³ 89.1-3³ 89.5-1 89.5-2 89.9-1 89.9-2 89.9-3 90.7-1 90.7-2 92.3-1 92.3-2 93.1-1⁴ 93.1-2⁴ 93.5-1 93.5-2 93.5-3 93.5-4 93.9-1 93.9-2 93.9-3 94.7-1 94.7-2 95.5-1 95.5-2 95.5-3 96.3-1 96.3-2 96.3-3 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.9-1 98.7-1 98.7-2 98.7-3 99.1-1 99.1-2 99.1-3 100.3-1⁴ 100.3-2⁴ 101.1-1 101.1-2 101.1-3 102.7-1 102.7-2 102.7-3 103.5-1⁴ 103.5-2⁴ 103.9-1 104.3-1 104.3-2 104.3-3 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1⁴ 105.9-2⁴ 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1 107.5-2
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Internet	Pulse 87 WBAR
Defunct	2XG WHN (1050) WJY (Hoboken, New Jersey) WJY (New York) WNBC (660) WNBC-FM (97.1) WNEW (1130) WYNY (97.1, 103.5, 107.1)
NYC Metro Markets Hudson Valley Long Island Middlesex-Somerset-Union Monmouth-Ocean Morristown Stamford-Norwalk Other nearby radio markets Bridgeport Danbury New Haven Poughkeepsie Sussex Trenton See also List of radio stations in New York ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = Part 15 station with notability. ³ = Stations share time on the frequency. ⁴ = Transmits from atop the Empire State Building.

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