880 WCBS has requested a callsign change to WHSQ effective from 26th August. This is the date when the LMA between the owners Audacy and Good Karma Bands that brings the format change is scheduled to begin.
FCC broadcasting history cards first list the station as WABC licensed on 20th September 1924, and WBOQ licensed on 26th March 1925, with these calls being combined on 11th November 1928. The two stations operated on various frequencies, but the combined station settled on 860kHz. Still on 860, the WBOQ call was dropped on 15th June 1940. It moved to 880 under the NARBA changes of 1941. The call changed to WCBS on 2nd November 1946 (according to a copy of an notice displayed on Wikipedia), though the date of this change is not recorded in the FCC records.
WCBS has broadcast using these same call letters on 880kHz since June 1946 and became an all-news station in 1967.
73 Andrew Brade to mwcircle iog (2024-08-15)