WUNR

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WUNR
City of license	Brookline, Massachusetts
Broadcast area	Boston, Massachusetts
First air date	1948
Frequency	1600 (kHz)
Format	Ethnic
Class	B
Callsign meaning	United Nations of Radio (reflecting its ethnic format)
Owner	Herbert Hoffman

WUNR is a radio station serving the city of Boston, Massachusetts, licensed to nearby Brookline. It broadcasts on 1600 kHz on the AM radio dial with an ethnic format. It is owned by Herbert Hoffman.

[edit] History

The station first signed on in 1948 as WVOM, a local station. WVOM was one of the earliest stations in the Boston area to adopt 24-hour broadcasting on a regular basis. The station was sold to Herbert Hoffman in 1955, who changed the call letters to WBOS and eventually added an FM station, WBOS-FM.

The AM station had some leased-time ethnic programming, but also for a time in the mid 1950's was home to one of the first rock-and-roll shows on Boston radio, hosted by a young Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsberg. In the late 1950's, WBOS was mostly a beautiful music simulcast on both AM and FM, although some ethnic programming remained on the AM side.

In the late 1960's, WBOS-AM gradually abandoned simulcasting with WBOS-FM and increased the amount of ethnic programming on the AM side. The call letters of WBOS-AM became WUNR in 1969 to reflect its ethnic format.

WUNR's tramsmitter and antenna is located in nearby Newton, Massachusetts. Work has started on a project which will result in a more powerful signal for the station.

[edit] Reference

• The Boston Radio Dial: WUNR(AM). The Archives at BostonRadio.org (2005-3-24). Retrieved on January 22, 2006.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WUNR