WEAE-AM
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| City of license | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Pittsburgh metropolitan area |
| Branding | ESPN Radio 1250 |
| Slogan | Breaking Sports News First... Guaranteed |
| First air date | 1922 |
| Frequency | 1250 (kHz) |
| Format | Sports Talk |
| ERP | 5,000 watts |
| Class | A |
| Callsign meaning | nod to previous calls WCAE and WTAE, the second E standing for ESPN |
| Owner | ABC Radio |
| Website | http://www.espnradio1250.com |
WEAE is an AM radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, broadcasting at 1250 kHz with an ERP of 5 kW-Unlimited pattern. The station is an ABC owned and operated station and uses the on-air nickname "ESPN Radio 1250."
WEAE carries a sports talk radio format, and is the Pittsburgh affiliate of ESPN Radio, plus airs ESPN shows Mike and Mike in the Morning and The Dan Patrick Show. The station also features local sports talkers "The Junker and Crow Show" (with Guy Junker and Eddy Crow), Mark Madden in afternoons, and "Pittsburgh Game Night" (with Jim Colony, Joe DeStio, and Ken Laird).
The station is also the flagship station for the Penn State Nittany Lions football. (Source: according to GoPSU.com's website of Penn State affiliates) It was also the longtime flagship station of the Pittsburgh Steelers; this station has lost the broadcast rights to WDVE and WBGG.
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[edit] History
The station is one of the five original Pittsburgh stations that signed on the air in the 1920s. It first signed on under the WCAE call letters on May 3, 1922. When then sister TV station WTAE-TV began broadcasting in 1958, the AM callsign was changed to WTAE (AM).
The station was also known for a time as WRYT. As WTAE, the station was highly successful from the early 1970s to the early 1980s as an oldies-heavy Adult Contemporary station (with a nighttime sports talk show) under general manager Ted Atkins, who used programming techniques he had learned from Bill Drake at KHJ in Los Angeles.
In the 1980s, as at many AM radio stations, music was abandoned in favor of more talk. In 1997, Hearst-Argyle sold WTAE radio to SFX, who then traded the station to Chancellor, who in turn traded it again to Jacor Communications in exchange for WKNR in Cleveland, Ohio in August 1998. Jacor finally sold it to ABC later that year. During Jacor's brief ownership, the station changed the call letters to WEAE in order to separate it from the now-former sister TV station.
Today, WEAE serves as the local affiliate for ESPN Radio, which is itself owned by ABC.
The WRYT call sign is now used by a station in Edwardsville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.
[edit] Program Schedule
[edit] Monday-Friday
| Eastern | Pacific | Program |
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| 1 a.m. | 6 a.m. | AllNight with Jason Smith |
| 6 a.m. | 10 a.m. | Mike and Mike in the Morning |
| 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. | The Junker and Crow Show |
| 1 p.m. | 3 a.m. | The Dan Patrick Show |
| 3 p.m. | 7 p.m. | The Mark Madden Show |
| 7 p.m. | 9 a.m. | Pittsburgh Game Night |
| 9 p.m. | 1 a.m. | GameNight |
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