WEPN

WEPN (1050 AM, "1050 ESPN New York") is a 24-hour sports talk formatted radio station in New York City featuring national and local sports talk programs and live broadcasts of sports matches. It is the New York affiliate for ESPN Radio. Its transmitter site is located in North Bergen, New Jersey.

It is the radio home for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, the New York Jets of the National Football League, the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, and select nationally broadcast Major League Baseball and NBA games. There are also partnerships with Syracuse University and the United States Military Academy to air college football games, but those usually air on former sister station WABC or current sister station WQEW due to scheduling conflicts. WEPN currently has overflow agreements with WNYM and WWRL, the former airing Knicks or Rangers games that overlap with each other or with the Jets and the latter airing when there are two overlapping games.

The 1050 frequency had a long history prior to this format. Starting in the 1920s as WHN it played a diversified format, it was renamed WMGM in the late 1940s, the diversity continued until a switch to rock & roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. As WHN again, it played adult standards in the 1960s and country music in the 1970s and 1980s (the format it was best known for). In the late 1980s as WFAN it was the original frequency for the very successful all-sports station. Then began...
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