WRAW (1340 kHz) is a

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to Reading, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and calls itself "Newsradio 1340 WRAW." It broadcasts a

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. WRAW's

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is off South 9th Street in Reading, near the

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. It is powered at 1,000

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s. The service contour covers communities such as

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, Pottstown, Kutztown,

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and

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Programming

Weekdays begin with the R.J. Harris Breakfast Show

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from co-owned WHP

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in nearby Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The rest of the weekday line up features mostly syndicated shows from the co-owned

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, including Glenn Beck, ''

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'',

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and

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. Late nights,

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s from iHeartRadio are heard, followed by ''

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with

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.'' On weekends, WRAW carries '' In the Garden with Ron Wilson'', '' At Home with Gary Sullivan'', '' Leo Laporte - the Tech Guy'', '' Bill Handel on the Law,'' '' The Weekend with Joe Pags,'' and '' Live on Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham''. Sunday mornings feature religious services and a

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show. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio.

History

WRAW is one of the oldest radio stations in Pennsylvania. It

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the air on . In the 1960s and 70s, it had a

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format. In the 1980s, it played a syndicated adult standards format, known as '' The Music of Your Life''. WRAW once broadcast in AM stereo using the C-QUAM system. On February 27, 2014, WRAW changed to Spanish

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, branded as "Rumba 1340". Programming was also heard on

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W222BY on 92.3 FM. On August 8, 2019, WRAW broke from simulcasting on the translator due to it being sold to Educational Media Foundation (EMF). On Monday, August 12, 2019, WRAW ended Spanish programming and began airing a

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format branded as NewsRadio 1340 WRAW. Another radio station in Reading,

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, discontinued airing

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's nationally syndicated show in a cost-cutting measure stemming from its parent company's bankruptcy and sale. That prompted WRAW to pick up the broadcast, and carry other conservative talk programming, from co-owned

. After Limbaugh's death in 2021, WRAW, like other talk stations owned by iHeartMedia, switched to Limbaugh's replacement, "

References

External links

* * {{iHeartMedia

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