- WSBR
Infobox Radio station
name = WSBR
city = Boca Raton,Florida
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branding =
slogan = "Moneytalk Radio"
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frequency = 740kHz HD Radio
format =News Talk Information
power = 2,500watt s day
940watt s night
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class = B
facility_id = 60634
coordinates = coord|26|20|6.00|N|80|15|55.00|W|region:US_type:city
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owner = Beasly Broadcast Group, Inc. dba Wwnn License, LLC
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website = [http://www.wsbrradio.com wsbrradio.com]
affiliations =WSBR (740 AM) is a
radio station broadcasting aNews Talk Information format. Licensed toBoca Raton, Florida , USA, the station serves the West Palm Beach/Boca Raton radio markets, with the Miami/Fort. Lauderdale market as a secondary. The station is currently owned by Beasly Broadcast Group, Inc., doing business as Wwnn License, LLC. [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WSBR |title=WSBR Facility Record |work=United StatesFederal Communications Commission , audio division ]History
Not much is known before 1989. Since its inception in 1965, WSBR served as primarily an MOR format station which also stayed within Big Bands and Standards until its sale in 1989 to Howard Goldsmith. Until Goldsmith's purchase WSBR stayed to its MOR format during the weekdays, and ran brokered talk programming sporadically on the weekend, to garner more income.
Upon purchase from Steve Haas in 1989, Goldsmith changed the format from MOR/Standards to a talk format rooted in business, or, as Goldsmith coined it, "MoneyTalk Radio."
outh Florida's MoneyTalk Radio
After the LMA was approved by the FCC in early 1989, Goldsmith overhauled the station's prime format from MOR/Standards, which were not monetarily beneficial to the station's operations, to a new type of talk radio format centralized upon the activities of the stock market, as well as its periphery. Coined (and copyrighted) "South Florida's MoneyTalk Radio," the new WSBR carried brokered time programs made available initially to stock brokers, commodoties brokers, bond brokers, investment brokers and mortgage brokers. Non-business talk programs still remained from the Haas era- Palm Beach resident Herbert Swope and newspaper colmunist Greg Allen had daily programs, with the rest of the broadcast day devoted to a combination of "per inquiry" informercials and programming via satellite from the Business Radio Network.
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*AML|WSBR
*AMARB|WSBR
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