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WEBR (1440 kHz) is an AM commercial radio station licensed to Niagara Falls, New York. It serves the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area from studios on Kenmore Avenue in Buffalo. The station is currently owned by William Yuhnke, with the license held by Kenmore Broadcasting Communications, Inc. It broadcasts a full-service soft oldies radio format, mostly from the 1970s. On weekends, it airs programs featuring Polish and Italian music, oldies and adult standards shows.
By day, WEBR transmits with 1,000 watts of power, using a non-directional antenna pattern. At night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1440 AM, power is reduced to 55 watts. The transmitter is on Buffalo Avenue (NY State Route 384) in Niagara Falls, near South Hyde Park Boulevard.
On December 21, 1947, the station signed on as WJJL. The call sign represented the initials of its founding owner, John J. Laux. The station was originally a daytimer, required to go off the air at sunset.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Canadian native Thomas Talbot worked for Laux as a salesperson at the station. Eventually, Talbot became sales manager and then owner of WJJL, which was incorporated as the Niagara Frontier Broadcasting Corp. He also owned FM radio station 96.1 WBNY (now WTSS) in Buffalo.
Talbot began one of the first radio "two-way" telephone talk shows in the United States in the early 1950s, which was called Party Line. There was an eight-second delay to avoid potential problem calls.
The mid-morning show was named Viewpoint in the 1960s and continues to be hosted by longtime Niagara Falls fixture and former news director Tom Darro.
Talbot died in 1976, and the station was taken over by his widow, Norma Talbot.
An 18-year-old aspiring country musician named Ramblin' Lou Schriver was one of the station's early on-air personalities. In 1970, he bought his own station, WXRL 1300 AM, in Lancaster, New York.
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WEBR (1440 kHz) is an AM commercial radio station licensed to Niagara Falls, New York. It serves the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area from studios on Kenmore Avenue in Buffalo. The station is currently owned by William Yuhnke, with the license held by Kenmore Broadcasting Communications, Inc. It broadcasts a full-service soft oldies radio format, mostly from the 1970s. On weekends, it airs programs featuring Polish and Italian music, oldies and adult standards shows.
By day, WEBR transmits with 1,000 watts of power, using a non-directional antenna pattern. At night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1440 AM, power is reduced to 55 watts. The transmitter is on Buffalo Avenue (NY State Route 384) in Niagara Falls, near South Hyde Park Boulevard.
On December 21, 1947, the station signed on as WJJL. The call sign represented the initials of its founding owner, John J. Laux. The station was originally a daytimer, required to go off the air at sunset.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Canadian native Thomas Talbot worked for Laux as a salesperson at the station. Eventually, Talbot became sales manager and then owner of WJJL, which was incorporated as the Niagara Frontier Broadcasting Corp. He also owned FM radio station 96.1 WBNY (now WTSS) in Buffalo.
Talbot began one of the first radio "two-way" telephone talk shows in the United States in the early 1950s, which was called Party Line. There was an eight-second delay to avoid potential problem calls.
The mid-morning show was named Viewpoint in the 1960s and continues to be hosted by longtime Niagara Falls fixture and former news director Tom Darro.
Talbot died in 1976, and the station was taken over by his widow, Norma Talbot.
An 18-year-old aspiring country musician named Ramblin' Lou Schriver was one of the station's early on-air personalities. In 1970, he bought his own station, WXRL 1300 AM, in Lancaster, New York.
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