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Overview
Licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina, WORD is a talk radio station broadcasting on 950 AM. Listeners know it as “Upstate Red.” It began broadcasting in 1930.
At a glance
- Call sign
- WORD
- Frequency
- 950 AM
- Format
- Conservative talk
- On-air name
- Upstate Red
- City of license
- Spartanburg, SC
- Market
- Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson, SC
- Licensee
- Audacy License, LLC
- Station class
- D
- First on air
- 1930
- FCC facility ID
- 66390
- Website
- audacy.com
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Its lineup draws on Fox News Radio, Premiere Networks and Westwood One. Audacy License, LLC holds the station’s FCC license. It has used the WORD call letters since January 2002.
Its website is audacy.com. Spartanburg is in the Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson, SC market, where local newspapers include Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Sister stations include WFBC-FM, WROQ, WTPT, WYRD and WYRD-FM.
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WORD at a glance
- Frequency
- 950 AM
- On air as
- Upstate Red
- Format
- Conservative talk
- Licensed to
- Spartanburg, SC
- Market
- Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson, SC








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