WRKO

WRKO

Boston, Massachusetts United States
Broadcast area	New England
Frequency	680 kHz
Branding	WRKO AM 680
Programming
Format	News/talk
Affiliations	ABC News Radio Compass Media Networks Premiere Networks Total Traffic and Weather Network
Ownership
Owner	iHeartMedia (iHM Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations	WBWL, WBZ, WJMN, WXKS, WXKS-FM, WZLX, WZRM
History
First air date	December 19, 1937; 86 years ago (1937-12-19)
Former call signs	WLAW (1937–1953) WNAC (1953–1967)
Call sign meaning	former owner RKO General
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	1902
Class	B
Power	50,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates	42°29′25″N 71°13′03″W / 42.490373°N 71.217556°W / 42.490373; -71.217556
Repeater(s)	100.7 WZLX-HD2 (Boston)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live (via iHeartRadio)
Website	wrko.iheart.com

WRKO (680 AM) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. Owned by iHeartMedia, WRKO is a Class B AM station that provides secondary coverage to portions of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine during the day, but is highly directional at night to protect a number of clear-channel stations on adjacent frequencies. WRKO serves as the Boston affiliate for ABC News Radio, Coast to Coast AM and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal; syndicated personalities Joe Pags, John Batchelor and Bill Cunningham; the flagship station of The Howie Carr Show, and the home of radio personality Jeff Kuhner. The WRKO studios are located in the Boston suburb of Medford, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Burlington. Besides its main analog transmission, WRKO simulcasts over the HD2 subchannel of sister station WZLX,^[2] and streams online via iHeartRadio.

WRKO is one of three AM stations owned by iHeartMedia in the Boston market that features a spoken word format; WBZ is all news during the day and overnight, with local talk in the evening, while WXKS carries a nationally syndicated conservative talk line up.