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Overview
Licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, WTAR is a talk radio station broadcasting on 850 AM. Listeners know it as “TalkRadio 96.5 & 850 WTAR.” It first signed on in 1947.
Station details
- Call sign
- WTAR
- Frequency
- 850 AM
- Format
- Talk radio
- On-air name
- TalkRadio 96.5 & 850 WTAR
- City of license
- Norfolk, VA
- Market
- Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA
- Licensee
- Sinclair Telecable, Inc.
- Station class
- B
- First on air
- 1947
- FCC facility ID
- 60472
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Network programming comes from Fox News Radio and Premiere Networks. Sinclair Telecable, Inc. holds the station’s FCC license. It has used the WTAR call letters since July 1997.
Norfolk is in the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA market, where local newspapers include Inside Business. Its sister stations are WNIS, WNOB, WROX-FM and WUSH.
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WTAR at a glance
- Frequency
- 850 AM
- On air as
- TalkRadio 96.5 & 850 WTAR
- Format
- Talk radio
- Licensed to
- Norfolk, VA
- Market
- Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA
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