WWRU

WWRU
City	Jersey City, New Jersey
Broadcast area	NY/NJ
Frequency	1660 kHz
First air date	December 8, 1995
Format	Korean language
Power	10,000 watts
Class	B
Facility ID	87123
Transmitter coordinates	40°49′13″N 74°4′4″W / 40.82028°N 74.06778°W / 40.82028; -74.06778
Former callsigns	WJDM, WBAH
Owner	Multicultural Broadcasting (brokered to New York Radio Korea) (Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC)
Website	www.kradio1660.com

WWRU is a Korean language AM radio station licensed to Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting to the New York metropolitan area on 1660 kHz AM. The station's studios are located in Manhattan.

AM 1660 launched on December 8, 1995 as WJDM, shortly after the Federal Communications Commission in the United States expanded the AM band to include new stations in the range of 1610 to 1700 khz. It was the first such expanded band AM station in the U.S. and within two months of sign-on became the New York Radio AAHS children's network owned & operated affiliate on February 2, 1996. Until other stations were licensed on the frequency and adjacent channels in other parts of the country in subsequent years, WJDM could be heard at night throughout the eastern U.S. and Canada.

When AAHS' parent company, Children's Broadcasting Corporation, discontinued the format in January 1998, the ten CBC-owned stations, including WJDM, began airing Beat Radio, a club dance music format, every night between 7pm and 7am while a random mix of music was broadcast during the day. On May 11, 1998 the station changed call letters to WBAH. In June 1998, the young Radio Unica network entered into a Limited Marketing Agreement (LMA) with CBC and began airing its own Spanish talk programming, including World Cup Soccer and many New York Yankees games. Radio Unica announced an agreement to purchase the station in October 1998 and the transaction was completed on January 14, 1999. The call sign changed to WWRU on February 15, 1999.

Multicultural Broadcasting purchased WWRU in December 2003. The station then leased the time to Radio Seoul, which had just left WNSW/1430 in an effort to gain a stronger signal in the market. Sister station WZRC, which had broadcast in Korean, switched to Chinese language at the same time.

Later, the brand changed from Radio Seoul to K-Radio, which it's called to this day.

The signal can reportedly be heard as far away as the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and as North as Southern Ontario at night.

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WWRU

Radio-Locator Information on WWRU

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WWRU

Radio stations in the New York City market

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Apex/VHF FM	42.8

By FM frequency	87.7 88.9 89.1² 89.9 90.3 (New York) 90.3 (Brooklyn) 90.7 91.5 92.3 93.9 95.5 96.3 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 104.3 105.1 106.7 107.5 New Jersey 88.3 89.1² 89.5 90.3 91.1 93.1³ 94.7 99.1 100.3³ 105.5 105.9³ 106.3 Westchester County, N.Y. 88.1 88.9 90.3 93.5 96.7 103.9 106.3 107.1 Long Island, N.Y. 92.7 103.5³

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

Digital radio	710 880 1010 1280 1560 88.3-1 88.3-2 89.5-1 89.5-2 89.9-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 89.9-3 90.7-1 90.7-2 90.7-3 92.3-1 92.3-2 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.5-1 93.5-2 93.5-3 93.5-4 93.9-1 93.9-2 93.9-3 94.7-1 94.7-4 95.5-1 95.5-2 95.5-3 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.9-1 98.7-1 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 101.1-3 102.7-1 102.7-2 102.7-3 103.5-1 103.5-2 103.5-3 103.9-1 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1 107.5-2

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

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Defunct	WHN⁴ WNBC WNBC-FM⁴ WNEW WYNY⁴

See also Poughkeepsie Philadelphia Hudson Valley New Haven Bridgeport Danbury Stamford-Norwalk Middlesex-Somerset-Union Sussex Morristown Monmouth-Ocean Long Island Trenton ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = Stations share time on the frequency. ³ = Station is licensed to a community in their respective sub market (e.g. New Jersey), but transmits from atop the Empire State Building or Freedom Tower. ⁴ = Technically still active, but on a different frequency with new call letters and different intellectual property.

Multicultural Broadcasting

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Television stations	KILM (SonLife)²

¹ Controlled by Lincoln Financial Media under LMA.

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