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WJNO
WJNO (1290 kHz) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to serve West Palm Beach, Florida, covering Palm Beach County and portions of the Miami metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, WJNO serves as the local affiliate for: Fox News Radio; The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Dave Ramsey Show and Coast to Coast AM; and syndicated personalities Kim Komando, Ric Edelman and Bill Handel. The WJNO studios are located in West Palm Beach, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Loxahatchee. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WJNO streams online via iHeartRadio.
This station is the second station in the West Palm Beach area—and the third AM station overall—to use the WJNO call sign, which originated on the former WJNO (1230 AM) in 1936; that station is now known as WBZT. WJNO is also notable as being the first station in the market to use the WIRK call sign when it signed on in 1947; it is unrelated to the current WIRK.
West Palm Beach got its third radio station in 1947 when WIRK began broadcasting at 1290 kHz. Owned by Ken-Sell, Inc., the station broadcast with 1,000 watts and had its transmitter on Military Trail and studios in the basement of the Citizens' Building. Not long after going on air, WIRK affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System.
The early 1950s saw several advancements for WIRK. In 1952, ground was broken on a new business building at 711 S. Flagler Drive, on the shores of Lake Worth, to house WIRK and Remington Rand. WIRK increased its power to 5,000 watts in 1953, and September 13 saw the launch of its television adjunct, WIRK-TV (channel 21), the first TV station in the Palm Beaches.
WIRK-TV operated at a financial loss until folding on February 29, 1956. After it closed, one of the partners in Ken-Sell sold his share in the company to WIRK radio-TV sports director Rome Hartman.
In 1965, WIRK launched an FM outlet at 107.9 FM, first bearing the call letters WPBF but changing to WIRK-FM in 1971. While WIRK remained a rock radio station, WIRK-FM became a successful country outlet.
WIRK-AM-FM was sold for the first time in its history in 1983 to Price Communications for $7 million. Price relaunched the AM station, which had in August 1982 flipped from adult contemporary to country, as WPCK "13AM", trying to give it a separate identity from its FM country sister. However, the station's move to big band music accompanying the format change was rolled back in 1985 when WIRK returned to country; the next year, it began simulcasting WIRK-FM. In 1987, WIRK became WPBG, airing the syndicated "Pure Gold" oldies format.
In February 1992, 1290 AM flipped to talk and changed its call letters to WBZT. The new station aired sports programming, including the then-new ESPN Radio, as well as sports play-by-play and talk jocks including Rush Limbaugh. The 1990s saw a series of sales involving WBZT. Price sold WIRK and WBZT to American Radio Systems in 1994.
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WJNO
WJNO (1290 kHz) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to serve West Palm Beach, Florida, covering Palm Beach County and portions of the Miami metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, WJNO serves as the local affiliate for: Fox News Radio; The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Dave Ramsey Show and Coast to Coast AM; and syndicated personalities Kim Komando, Ric Edelman and Bill Handel. The WJNO studios are located in West Palm Beach, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Loxahatchee. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WJNO streams online via iHeartRadio.
This station is the second station in the West Palm Beach area—and the third AM station overall—to use the WJNO call sign, which originated on the former WJNO (1230 AM) in 1936; that station is now known as WBZT. WJNO is also notable as being the first station in the market to use the WIRK call sign when it signed on in 1947; it is unrelated to the current WIRK.
West Palm Beach got its third radio station in 1947 when WIRK began broadcasting at 1290 kHz. Owned by Ken-Sell, Inc., the station broadcast with 1,000 watts and had its transmitter on Military Trail and studios in the basement of the Citizens' Building. Not long after going on air, WIRK affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System.
The early 1950s saw several advancements for WIRK. In 1952, ground was broken on a new business building at 711 S. Flagler Drive, on the shores of Lake Worth, to house WIRK and Remington Rand. WIRK increased its power to 5,000 watts in 1953, and September 13 saw the launch of its television adjunct, WIRK-TV (channel 21), the first TV station in the Palm Beaches.
WIRK-TV operated at a financial loss until folding on February 29, 1956. After it closed, one of the partners in Ken-Sell sold his share in the company to WIRK radio-TV sports director Rome Hartman.
In 1965, WIRK launched an FM outlet at 107.9 FM, first bearing the call letters WPBF but changing to WIRK-FM in 1971. While WIRK remained a rock radio station, WIRK-FM became a successful country outlet.
WIRK-AM-FM was sold for the first time in its history in 1983 to Price Communications for $7 million. Price relaunched the AM station, which had in August 1982 flipped from adult contemporary to country, as WPCK "13AM", trying to give it a separate identity from its FM country sister. However, the station's move to big band music accompanying the format change was rolled back in 1985 when WIRK returned to country; the next year, it began simulcasting WIRK-FM. In 1987, WIRK became WPBG, airing the syndicated "Pure Gold" oldies format.
In February 1992, 1290 AM flipped to talk and changed its call letters to WBZT. The new station aired sports programming, including the then-new ESPN Radio, as well as sports play-by-play and talk jocks including Rush Limbaugh. The 1990s saw a series of sales involving WBZT. Price sold WIRK and WBZT to American Radio Systems in 1994.