WYRD (AM)
| City | Greenville, South Carolina |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Greenville, South Carolina |
| Branding | ESPN Upstate |
| Frequency | 1330 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 105.9 W290BW (Greenville) |
| Repeater(s) | 93.7-3 WFBC-HD3 |
| First air date | 1933 |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 34389 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°51′18.00″N 82°25′24.00″W / 34.8550000°N 82.4233333°W |
| Callsign meaning | "Word" (Y substitutes for the O, used in sister station WORD) |
| Former callsigns | WFBC (1933–1997) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner |
Entercom Communications (Entercom License, LLC) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | espnupstate.com |
WYRD, known on-air as "ESPN Upstate", is a sports-formatted radio station in the Greenville-Spartanburg area of Upstate South Carolina. The Entercom Communications outlet is licensed by the FCC to Greenville, SC, and broadcasts at 1330 kHz with an ERP of 5 kW unlimited non-directional daytime and 3-way directional at night. The programming on WORD is simulultaneously broadcast on 950 AM Spartanburg and W246BU-FM 97.1 MHz, Spartanburg. Its studios and transmitter are located separately in Greenville.
Until their change in format from talk to sports on February 24, 2014,[1] News Radio WORD carried Russ and Lisa, Mike Gallagher, Coast to Coast AM, Rush Limbaugh, Kim Komando, Lars Larson, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity and Bob McLain.
History
On December 9, 1932, The Federal Radio Commission approved transferring the license for WFBC (the station's call letters at that time) from Virgil V. Evans to the Greensville News-Piedmont Company. At the time, WFBC operated on 1200 kHz with 50 W power.[2] On January 8, 1935, the Federal Communications Commission approved increasing the station's power to 5 KW.[3]
Years later, WFBC was known for its top-40 format. The call letters continue to be used by WFBC-FM. WYRD and WORD added 106.3 (now WYRD-FM) as an FM simulcast in 2008.
References
- ↑ "Inside Radio". Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ↑ "Newspaper Buys" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 15, 1932. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ↑ "Increases in Day Power Are Given Six Stations" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 15, 1935. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WYRD
- Radio-Locator Information on WYRD
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WYRD
- Query the FCC's FM station database for W290BW
- Radio-Locator information on W290BW