WACK


City	Newark, New York
Slogan	Your Hometown Station
Frequency	1420 kHz
Format	News Talk Information
Power	5,000 watts day 500 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	52123
Transmitter coordinates	43°1′8.00″N 77°4′41.00″W / 43.0188889°N 77.0780556°W / 43.0188889; -77.0780556
Affiliations	Yahoo! Sports Radio Buffalo Bills Radio Network New York Yankees Radio Network Syracuse ISP Sports Network Motor Racing Network
Owner	Waynco Radio, Inc.
Sister stations	WUUF
Website	1420wack.com

WACK (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news talk information format and licensed to Newark, New York, USA. The station is owned by Waynco Radio, Inc., and features programing from CNN Radio, ESPN Radio and Westwood One.^[1]

WACK is the station where Lowell Paxson, later the founder of Home Shopping Network and PAX TV, began his broadcasting career.

Programming heard on WACK includes National Farm Report with Orion Samuelson, Farming America with Steve Alexander, America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon, a local morning show hosted by Dick Reeves and Rus Jeffrey, Last Night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Dick Clark's Music Calendar, The Laura Ingraham Show, Dennis Miller, The Dave Ramsey Show, The Sean Hannity Show, On the House with the Carey Brothers, and American Standards By the Sea. Any time slots not filled by programming are filled with Yahoo! Sports Radio

The combination of Ingraham, Miller and Hannity forms what the station dubs the "Great American Talk Show Line-Up" (prior to Miller, The Radio Factor was also included in that brandingt). Samuelson's and Alexander's programs are considered to be one show, which is given its own full half-hour time slot under the title "WACK Farm and Agribusiness Report".

Sports programs heard on WACK include the Buffalo Bills, New York Yankees, Syracuse Orange and the NASCAR Sprint Cup, in addition to local high school sports.

References

↑ "WACK Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

News/Talk radio stations in the state of New York

All-News	WCBS – New York WINS – New York

News & Talk	WABC – New York WACK – Newark WATN – Watertown WAUB – Auburn WBEN – Buffalo WECK – Cheektowaga WENI – Corning WENY – Elmira WFLR – Dundee WGDJ – Rensselaer WGVA – Geneva WGY – Schenectady WGY-FM – Albany WHAM – Rochester WHCU – Ithaca WIBX – Utica WJIP – Ellenville WJJF – Montauk WKAL – Rome WKIP – Poughkeepsie WLEA – Hornell WLVL – Lockport WNBF – Binghamton WNYY – Ithaca WOR – New York WRCN – Riverhead WSYR – Syracuse WSYR-FM – Solvay WXXI – Rochester

Defunct	WUTI – Utica

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York

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