WBBR

WBBR is a radio station broadcasting at 1130 AM in New York City. It airs Bloomberg Radio, a service of Bloomberg L.P.. Its transmitters are located in Carlstadt, New Jersey. WBBR's format is financial news, offering a mixture of domestic and foreign financial market updates and interviews with corporate executives and industry analysts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The station is known as "Bloomberg Eleven-Three-O" in its branding, continuing a longstanding tradition dating back to the origins of the frequency in New York.

The station's origins go back to 1922 as WAAM and 1925 as WODA, both broadcasting from New Jersey. After a merger in 1933, the call letters became WNEW (meaning "The NEWest Thing in Radio!", or NEWark) in 1934. The frequency shifted from 1250 to 1130 on March 29, 1941.

The station broadcasts financial markets news and carries speeches by officials of the Federal Reserve as well as other noteworthy individuals in business, politics and the economy. The local broadcast day starts at 5:00am with Bloomberg the First Word which previews market activity and covers the release of government statistics at 8:30am like the monthly inflation figures consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI), labor statistics like payroll employment and the unemployment rate household survey. Also weekly first time jobless claims come out Thursdays. Bloomberg Radio features Monday through Thursday at 6 pm its popular Bloomberg on the Economy show,...
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