WLVL
WLVL (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Lockport, New York, United States, the station serves the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area. The station is currently owned by Culver Communications Corp., Inc. and features programming from NBC Sports Radio.[2][3]
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| City | Lockport, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Buffalo-Niagara Falls |
| Branding | Hometown 1340 AM - 105.3 FM |
| Frequency | 1340 kHz |
| First air date | May 20, 1949 (first license granted) |
| Format | News Talk Information |
| Power | 1,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 14714 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°10′30″N 78°42′39″W |
| Call sign meaning | Lively Voice of Lockport[1] |
| Former call signs | WUSJ (1949–1975) |
| Affiliations | ABC Radio |
| Owner | Dick Greene (Culver Communications Corp., Inc.) |
| Webcast | WLVL embedded player |
| Website | wlvl.com |
Culver Communications also owned WECK, an adult standards music station in Cheektowaga from 2008 to 2017.
History
WLVL went on the air in 1949 as WUSJ, owned by the Lockport Union-Sun and Journal, Inc., the local newspaper that owned it until 1990. The station was sold to Hall Communications in 1970 and became WLVL in 1975.
Programming
- First Light
- Lockport's Early Morning News with Paul Oates (Hank Nevins with news)
- Tradio
- Green to Checker, with Racin' Ray Sherman
- Super Dial-A-Deal (Saturdays), Racin' Ray Sherman
- NBC Sports Radio
- New York Yankees baseball
Alumni
- Frank Arlington (a.k.a. Frank Williams), who spent over 30 years as a sportscaster for WESB, was a member of WLVL's staff in the early 1980s.[4]
- Brian Kahle, former AM Buffalo host, hosted a talk show on WLVL from 2007 until his death in 2013.
- Tom Jolls, longtime Buffalo television personality, began his career at what was then WUSJ and had an 11-year run at the station, 1951–62.
- National talk show host Stephanie Miller started at WLVL before leaving for Rochester's WCMF.
- John Murphy, the Voice of the Buffalo Bills and a Lockport native, started at WLVL, handling play-by-play of Niagara-Orleans League games.
- Doug Young, a radio veteran of WGR and the now-defunct WNSA, hosted an interview program on WLVL, but was fired in September 2008.
References
- "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
- "WLVL Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- "WLVL Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
- Pollock, Chuch (October 17, 2019). WESB’s Arlington doing his final football broadcast. The Bradford Era. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WLVL
- Radio-Locator Information on WLVL
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WLVL
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