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WATN (AM)
WATN (1240 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Watertown, New York. The station airs a talk radio format and is owned by Community Broadcasters, LLC. WATN is powered at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is off Wealtha Avenue in Watertown. Programming Most weekday programs on WATN are nationally syndicated conservative talk shows. Two local programs are heard each weekday: ''Hotline'', an hour-long lunchtime show hosted by former Watertown Mayor Jeffrey Graham, and ''Live at Five'', an afternoon drive time show hosted by Glenn Curry. Syndicated hosts include Hugh Hewitt, Chris Plante, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, John Batchelor and Red Eye Radio. Weekend syndicated hosts include Gary Sullivan (home repair), Bill Handel (law), Ron Ananian (car repair), Michio Kaku (science), Joe Pags, Howie Carr and a Sunday night oldies show. Most hours begin with world and national news from CBS Radio News. History WATN first signed on the air on .
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Watertown, New York
Watertown is a city in, and the county seat of, Jefferson County, New York, United States. It is approximately south of the Thousand Islands, along the Black River about east of where it flows into Lake Ontario. The city is bordered by the town of Watertown to the south, east, and west, and is served by the Watertown International Airport and the ''Watertown Daily Times'' newspaper. In the middle of Watertown lies the Public Square Historic District, which was built in 1805 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1984. Watertown is located southwest of the U.S. Army base at Fort Drum; it is the service and shopping destination for personnel there and their families. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city has 24,685 residents. The area was first surveyed in 1796, and was settled in March 1800 due to the abundant hydropower the Black River provided. The city was designated as the county seat of Jefferson County when it was split off from One ...
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Radio Syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of leasing the right to broadcasting television shows and radio programs to multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network. It is common in the United States where broadcast programming is scheduled by television networks with local independent affiliates. Syndication is less widespread in the rest of the world, as most countries have centralized networks or television stations without local affiliates. Shows can be syndicated internationally, although this is less common. Three common types of syndication are: ''first-run'' syndication, which is programming that is broadcast for the first time as a syndicated show and is made specifically to sell directly into syndication; ''off-network'' syndication (colloquially called a "rerun"), which is the licensing of a program whose first airing was on network TV or in some cases, first-run syndication;Campbell, Richard, Christopher R. Martin, and Bettina ...
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Howie Carr
Howard Louis Carr Jr. (born January 17, 1952) is an American conservative radio talk-show host, political author, news reporter and award-winning writer. He hosts ''The Howie Carr Show'' originating from his studios in Wellesley, MA and broadcast on weekdays on WRKO in Boston as well as to an audience based in New England, in addition to writing three columns a week for the ''Boston Herald''. Career Journalism Carr began his career as a reporter for the ''Winston-Salem Journal'', before returning to New England in 1979 as assistant city editor for the ''Boston Herald American'' (now the ''Boston Herald''). From 1980 to 1981, he was the Boston City Hall bureau chief of the ''Herald American'', and he later worked as the paper's State House bureau chief. As a political reporter for WNEV (now WHDH) in 1982, his coverage of then-mayor Kevin White was so relentless that after the mayor announced he was not running again, he told ''The Boston Globe'' that one of the things he enj ...
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Joe Pags
Joseph John Pagliarulo (born August 1, 1966), also known on the air as Joe Pags, is an American nationally syndicated conservative television and radio talk show host. Biography Born in Amityville, New York, Pagliarulo later lived in nearby Copiague, moved to Lake Worth, Florida at age seven, and graduated from Santaluces Community High School. By 1988, Pagliarulo became a store president with Domino's Pizza. Pagliarulo began his radio career in 1989 in Palm Beach County, Florida, then worked primarily in television news, serving in many roles and eventually as the main anchor at WEYI-TV in Saginaw/Flint, Michigan (1994–1996), morning and noon anchor at WWMT in Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, Michigan (1996–1997), main anchor, managing editor and eventually news director at WLAJ in Lansing/Jackson, Michigan (1997–2002) and main anchor at WRGB in Schenectady, New York (2002–2005). During and after his time at WRGB he also served as talk show host at WHAM in Rochester, New York ...
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Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku (, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, futurist, and popular science, popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Award, Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books ''Physics of the Impossible'' (2008), ''Physics of the Future'' (2011), ''The Future of the Mind'' (2014), and The God Equation, ''The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything'' (2021) became The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best sellers. Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery ...
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Bill Handel
William Wolf Handel (born August 25, 1951) is a Brazilian-born American radio host and attorney. Handel currently hosts two radio programs on KFI in Los Angeles, California. First is KFI's local morning drive time show, in which he comments on current events. The program is one of the top rated morning programs in the Los Angeles radio market, with more than 1 million listeners. Additionally, he hosts a legal advice show on weekends called ''Handel on the Law'', which launched in 1985 and is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, co-owned with KFI by iHeartMedia, Inc. Handel on The Law is heard on more than 150 stations in the U.S. He is also the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting. His legal show is currently his longest running radio program to date. Both of Handel's shows played across the U.S. on the America's Talk channel 158 on XM Satellite Radio. In 2008, Handel's shows were discontinued by XM Radio when it merged with Sirius Satellite Radio. E ...
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Gary Sullivan (radio Host)
Gary Sullivan is the host of the American nationally syndicated radio program '' At Home with Gary Sullivan''. The show is syndicated by Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, Inc. and is heard on many iHeart radio stations. It airs on Saturdays and Sundays. Gary Sullivan is a Cincinnati native and hosts the show from the studios of 550 WKRC (AM), the flagship station. Sullivan first started working in a hardware store at age 16. He attended the University of Cincinnati and eventually rose to the president and majority owner of a 16-unit hardware store chain. Before beginning his nationally syndicated radio show in 2001, Sullivan hosted a TV show called "The Hardware Store," which aired on HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. As of February 2015, appr ... for four years. Refer ...
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Red Eye Radio
''Red Eye Radio'' is a talk radio program currently hosted by Eric Harley and Gary McNamara. The program is syndicated nationwide by Westwood One, and originates from WBAP in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The show traces its history through several predecessors, beginning with Bill Mack's overnight truck show in 1969. History Bill Mack Bill Mack was the founder of WBAP's overnight program, the ''U.S. 1 Trucking Show''. Mack started the show in 1969. The show, as the name implied, was geared toward the American truck driver and featured a lot of country music. The show briefly attempted an excursion into Mexico on border blaster XERF, but that arrangement ended after it was clear that Mack would not be able to host the show from his home in Fort Worth. Eventually, the show's name changed to the ''Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show'' and the ''Midnight Cowboy Radio Network'' and was syndicated by ABC Radio, who carefully selected the affiliates to give maximum coverage of the cou ...
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John Batchelor
John Calvin Batchelor (born April 29, 1948) is an American author and host of ''Eye on the World'' on the CBS Audio Network. His flagship station is New York's 710 WOR. The show is a hard-news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. It has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia For five years, from early 2001 to September 2006, based at AM 770 WABC radio in New York, his radio program ''The John Batchelor Show'' was syndicated nationally on the ABC radio network. On October 7, 2007, Batchelor returned to radio on WABC, and later to other large market stations on a weekly basis. As of November 30, 2009, Batchelor was once again hosting a nightly show on WABC, from 9 p.m. to 1a.m. Eastern Time and heard in many major markets across the country through what eventually became the Westwood One network. The program for a time was heard seven nights a w ...
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Mark Levin
Mark Reed Levin (; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality. He is the host of syndicated radio show Broadcast syndication is the practice of leasing the right to broadcasting television shows and radio programs to multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network. It is common in the United States where ... ''The Mark Levin Show'', as well as ''Life, Liberty & Levin'' on Fox News. Levin worked in the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. He is the former president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best-selling author of seven books, and contributes commentary to media outlets such as ''National Review Online''. Since 2015, Levin has been editor-in-chief of the ''Conservative Review'' and is known for his incendiary commentary. He has been describe ...
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Sean Hannity
Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of ''The Sean Hannity Show'', a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commentary program, ''Hannity'', on Fox News, since 2009. Hannity worked as a general contractor and volunteered as a talk show host at UC Santa Barbara in 1989. He later joined WVNN in Athens, Alabama and shortly afterward, WGST in Atlanta. After leaving WGST, he worked at WABC in New York until 2013. Since 2014, Hannity has worked at WOR. In 1996, Hannity and Alan Colmes co-hosted ''Hannity & Colmes'' on Fox. After Colmes announced his departure in January 2008, Hannity merged the ''Hannity & Colmes'' show into ''Hannity''. Hannity has received several awards and honors, including an honorary degree from Liberty University. He has written three ''New York Times'' best-selling books: '' Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Libe ...
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Chris Plante
Chris Plante (born December 12, 1959) is a syndicated radio talk show host, based at WMAL Radio in Washington D.C., and heard on the Westwood One Network. He is also a frequent guest on both Fox News and Fox Business. Chris Plante is the stepson of one-time CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante. Career CNN Plante worked at CNN for 17 years, mostly covering The Pentagon and U.S. Military. At various times at CNN, he was a Pentagon Correspondent, Senior Producer for National Security Affairs, Military Affairs Producer and an assignment editor. Plante traveled to foreign locations, including Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Africa and the remote corners of the former Soviet Union covering stories for CNN. Radio After leaving CNN, Plante got a job doing a weekend radio show at WMAL, which serves the Washington, D.C. metro area, sometimes hosting a joint show with liberal host Jerry Klein. In 2005, Plante moved to weeknights, and in 2008 he moved to ...
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