WHAS (AM)

WHAS

Louisville, Kentucky
Broadcast area	Louisville metropolitan area
Frequency	840 kHz
Branding	Newsradio 840 WHAS
Programming
Format	News/talk
Affiliations	ABC News Radio CBS News Radio Compass Media Networks Premiere Networks Westwood One UK Sports Network
Ownership
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (iHM Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations	WAMZ, WKJK, WKRD, WSDF, WNRW, WQMF, WTFX-FM
History
First air date	July 18, 1922 (1922-07-18)
Former frequencies	833 & 619 kHz (1922) 750 & 619 kHz (1922-1923) 750 kHz (1923-1927) 650 kHz (1927) 930 kHz (1927-1928) 820 kHz (1928-1941)
Call sign meaning	"We Have A Signal" (a backronym, as the call was randomly assigned by the government)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	11934
Class	A
Power	50,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates	38°15′40″N 85°25′43″W / 38.26111°N 85.42861°W / 38.26111; -85.42861 (main antenna) 38°15′40″N 85°25′37″W / 38.26111°N 85.42694°W / 38.26111; -85.42694 (auxiliary antenna)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	whas.iheart.com

WHAS (840 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky and owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. Its studios are at Fourth Street Live! in downtown Louisville. First licensed in July 1922, it is the oldest radio station in Kentucky.

Its transmitter site is in Long Run, in far east Jefferson County. WHAS operates around the clock on 840 kHz as a 50,000 watt non-directional clear channel station. Its daytime signal can be heard in almost all of central Kentucky, as well as large slices of Ohio and Indiana, providing city-grade coverage as far east as Lexington, as far south as Bowling Green, and as far north as Cincinnati. Its nighttime signal can be heard with a good radio in most of the continental United States and much of Canada.