WACK (1420 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format and licensed to Newark, New York, United States. The station is owned by Waynco Radio, Inc., and features programming from CNN Radio and Westwood One. WACK is the station where

Lowell Paxson Lowell White "Bud" Paxson (April 17, 1935 – January 9, 2015) was an American media executive. In 1982, Paxson and his business partner, Roy Speer, co-founded the Home Shopping Club (now called the Home Shopping Network). He later established Pax ...

, later the founder of

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and PAX TV, began his broadcasting career. He and Joseph “Bud” Sova bought the radio station in 1962. Programming heard on WACK includes ''National Farm Report with

Orion Samuelson Orion Samuelson ( ; born March 31, 1934) is a retired American broadcaster, known for his agriculture broadcasts and his ability to explain agribusiness and food production in an understandable way. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in ...

'', ''Farming America with Steve Alexander'', '' America in the Morning'', a

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s ...

-formatted local morning show hosted by Dean Amsler, '' The Glenn Beck Program'', Chris Plante, '' The Dave Ramsey Show'', '' The Sean Hannity Show'', a regionally syndicated program hosted by Andrew Hollister, ''On the House with the Carey Brothers'', and ''American Standards By the Sea''. Any time slots not filled by programming are filled with SportsMap. The combination of Beck, Plante, Ramsey and Hannity forms what the station dubs the "Great American Talk Show Line-Up" (prior to Beck and Plante, '' The Radio Factor'' and subsequently

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were also included in that branding, as was ''

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''). 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

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, Syracuse Orange and the

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