WIOD (610 AM, "News Radio 610 WIOD") is a news/talk formatted radio station in Miami, Florida. For over 80 years, it has been a major information station in South Florida. It features nationally conservative syndicated programs wrapped around locally produced news, traffic & weather reports, 24/7. From 1959-1962, the call letters were changed to WCKR - Cox-Knight Broadcasting had once owned the station as well as WCKT-TV, now WSVN. Branded Wacker Radio, they attempted a rock & roll format but were unsuccessful against strong competition.
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| - WIOD (610 AM, "News Radio 610 WIOD") is a news/talk formatted radio station in Miami, Florida. For over 80 years, it has been a major information station in South Florida. It features nationally conservative syndicated programs wrapped around locally produced news, traffic & weather reports, 24/7. From 1959-1962, the call letters were changed to WCKR - Cox-Knight Broadcasting had once owned the station as well as WCKT-TV, now WSVN. Branded Wacker Radio, they attempted a rock & roll format but were unsuccessful against strong competition.
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- (Currently operating @ 10,000 watts under a special temporary authority)
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| - WBGG-FM, WHYI-FM, WINZ, WLVE, WMGE, WMIB-FM
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| - WIOD (610 AM, "News Radio 610 WIOD") is a news/talk formatted radio station in Miami, Florida. For over 80 years, it has been a major information station in South Florida. It features nationally conservative syndicated programs wrapped around locally produced news, traffic & weather reports, 24/7. Installed in the spring of 1925 by Carl Graham Fisher, a Miami Beach developer, the station made it's formal air debut on the South Florida airwaves on January 19, 1926. Carl Fisher selected the letters WIOD as the call letters signifying “Wonderful Isles of Dreams” to commemorate Collins Island, on which the station was situated. WIOD is Florida’s 7th oldest continuously licensed broadcast radio station. From 1959-1962, the call letters were changed to WCKR - Cox-Knight Broadcasting had once owned the station as well as WCKT-TV, now WSVN. Branded Wacker Radio, they attempted a rock & roll format but were unsuccessful against strong competition. "News Radio 610 WIOD" arguably features 1 of the largest radio news departments in the Southeast United States & has consistently been the most frequent winner in annual Florida AP statewide competitions. 610 WIOD may be best known for it's continuous hurricane coverage, particularly Andrew, Katrina & Wilma. Despite the station's class B status, it has strong daytime & nighttime signal. This is due to parts of the tower's guy ground system resting in the brackish mix of fresh & salt waters of Biscayne Bay. WIOD, positioned as "South Florida's News, Traffic & Weather Station" is O&O by Clear Channel Communications, the largest US radio owner. WIOD is an affiliate of the FOX News Radio network. It also is affiliated with The Weather Channel, Dow Jones & Company (for "The Wall Street Journal Business Report") & has a news & weather content sharing relationship with WPLG ("Local 10"). 610 WIOD was the radio flagship of the 2006 NBA champions Miami Heat from 1996-2008. It's also the "official" broadcast emergency station for the Broward County Commission.
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