WCCM (AM)

WCCM

Haverhill, Massachusetts United States
Broadcast area	Merrimack Valley
Frequency	1490 kHz
Branding	Exitos Boston
Programming
Format	Spanish CHR
Affiliations	Boston Red Sox Spanish Radio Network
Ownership
Owner	Jose Villafañe (Costa Media Boston LLC)
Sister stations	WUBG
History
First air date	March 16, 1947; 78 years ago (1947-03-16)
Former call signs	WHAV (1947–2002) WCCM (2002–2007) WCEC (2007–2018)
Call sign meaning	originally used on WCCM (800 AM), now WNNW; attempt at a Roman numeral for 800 (subtract CC (200) from M (1000) to get 800)[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	49382
Class	C
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates	42°46′22.33″N 71°5′59.21″W / 42.7728694°N 71.0997806°W / 42.7728694; -71.0997806
Translator(s)	103.7 W279DH (Haverhill)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.exitosradio.com

WCCM (1490 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Spanish CHR format. Licensed to Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States, the station is owned by Jose Villafañe's Costa Media Boston LLC.^[3] WCCM also operates a translator station, W279DH (103.7 FM) in Haverhill.

The station went on the air in 1947 as WHAV, the radio station of The Haverhill Gazette, which owned it until 1954. WHAV continued to operate as a local station for Haverhill through several ownership changes until Costa Communications, forerunner of Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures, bought it in 1995 and relaunched the station as Spanish-language "Radio Impacto". Rearrangements of the Costa-Eagle stations' programming saw WHAV become talk station WCCM in 2002; it returned to "Impacto" as WCEC in 2007, and retook the WCCM call sign in 2018. Costa Media Boston—a separate company from Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures—began programming WCCM in 2021 as Spanish CHR station "LatinX 103.7", later rebranded "Exitos Boston", and acquired the station in 2024.