WWKB (formerly WKBW) is a radio station in Buffalo, New York that operates on an AM frequency of 1520. It is owned and operated by Entercom. They play oldies from the 1950's and 1960's 24 hours a day with the exception of some specialty programming a few hours a week. The artists they play include Elvis Presley, Beatles, Beach Boys, Frankie Lymon, Four Seasons, Four Tops, Everly brothers, Fats Domino, Rocky Nelson, Four Seasons, Lovin Spoonful, and many others. A radio station is a sound broadcasting service. ... Aerial view of downtown Buffalo, New York Buffalo, also known as The Queen City, The Nickel City, and the City of Good Neighbors, is an American city in western New York. ... Entercom Communications is the 4th largest radio broadcasting company in the United States. ...

WKBW was founded in 1926 as a religious station. The call letters stood for "Well Known Bible Witness". The station later broadcast a wide variety of ethnic, country and western and religious programming, including pioneer rock and roll and rhythm and blues shows by disk jockey George "Hounddog" Lorenz. 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... In broadcasting and radio communication, a callsign or call sign (also call letters) is a unique designation for a transmitting station. ... Country music, formerly called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...

In 1958, WKBW was converted into a Top 40 music radio station, which it remained for 30 years. It was one of the first stations to present traffic reports in cooperation with police and state and local authorities. Disk jockeys included Dick Biondi, Danny Neverath and Jackson Armstrong. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... Music radio is a radio format where music is the primary source of broadcast content on both commercial and non-commercial stations. ...

The station continued with a Top 40 Format until about 1981 when the station evolved to more of an Adult Contemporary format. By 1983 they leaned rock and roll oldies while still playing AC Cuts. They also added talk shows in the evenings by 1984. In 1986, with the sale of the station by ABC, which chose to keep the calls WKBW for its TV station WKBW-TV (Channel 7), the call letters were changed to WWKB-AM (in order to keep the long-standing "KB" slogan). In 1987 the station moved to a full service oldies format and in 1988, the station became a talk radio station and had a variety of business, sports, news, and talk programming until 2003, when it returned to broadcasting music. Its transmitters are located in Hamburg, New York. They took on a traditional oldies format that has been shun by FM stations in favor of 60's 70's hits and many other formats, in which WWKB plays music from 1955 to 1969. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... WKBW-TV is the callsign of a television station in Buffalo, New York. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hamburg, New York may refer to the following locations in Erie County, New York: Hamburg (town), New York Hamburg (village), New York (within the Town of Hamburg) For other locations with a similar name see Hamburg (disambiguation). ...

External link

• WKBW Radio Tribute Website
• WWKB website