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| Broadcast area | New Orleans metropolitan area - Southeastern Louisiana |
| Frequency | 870 kHz |
| Branding | The Big 870 |
| Programming | |
| Format | News - Talk - Sports |
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| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | March 31, 1922 |
Call sign meaning | None (randomly assigned)[1] |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 34377 |
| Class | A (clear channel) |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | |
| Repeater(s) | 105.3 WWL-FM (Kenner) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (via Audacy) |
| Website | www |
WWL (870 kHz) is an AM radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana, owned by Audacy, Inc. WWL and 105.3 WWL-FM simulcast a news/talk format with sports talk at night. The studios are in the 400 Poydras Tower in the New Orleans Central Business District.
WWL is a clear-channel, Class A station. Its transmitter power output is 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations in the U.S. It uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array.[3] The transmitter is in the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park in Estelle, Louisiana. The daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage to large parts of the Gulf Coast, with city-grade coverage reaching as far east as Pensacola, Florida, and as far west as Lafayette, Louisiana. At night it can be heard across much of the central and southern United States.
WWL is the Louisiana Primary Entry Point for the Emergency Alert System (EAS). With sister station 101.9 WLMG, it is responsible for activation of the Southeast Louisiana EAS plan.[4]
- ^ "The [WWL] letters, unlike many special combinations requested by later stations, had no special significance in themselves to Loyola University. They were simply transferred to the New Orleans institution on a luck of a draw basis." (Enterprise in Radio: WWL and the Business of Broadcasting in America by C. Joseph Pusareti, 1980, page 19.)
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WWL". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WWL-AM
- ^ "New Orleans' WWL on Full Alert with BE Messagecasting". bdcast.com. Retrieved June 2, 2022.