WKNR
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| City | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Cleveland |
| Branding | ESPN 850 WKNR |
| Frequency | 850 kHz |
| First air date | November 13, 1926 |
| Format | Sports radio |
| Power | 50,000 watts (daytime) 4,700 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 28509 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°19′0.00″N 81°43′51.00″W / 41.3166667°N 81.7308333°W |
| Callsign meaning | None |
| Former callsigns | WLBV (1926-1929) WJW (1929–1985) WRMR (1985–2001) |
| Former frequencies | 1300 kHz (1927) 1450 kHz (1927-1928) 1210 kHz (1928-1941) 1240 kHz (1941-1944) |
| Affiliations |
Cleveland Browns Radio Network ESPN Radio Ohio State IMG Sports Network Westwood One |
| Owner |
Good Karma Brands (Good Karma Broadcasting, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WWGK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | espncleveland |
WKNR (850 AM) – branded ESPN 850 WKNR – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland. Owned by Good Karma Brands, WKNR is one of two Cleveland affiliates for ESPN Radio; together, WKNR and sister station WWGK comprise a local sports radio duopoly known as ESPN Cleveland. WKNR itself also serves as: a co-flagship station for the Cleveland Browns Radio Network; the primary Cleveland affiliate for the Ohio State IMG Sports Network; and the radio home of Jerod Cherry, Tony Grossi, Matt Wilhelm, and Brian Windhorst. The WKNR studios are located in the Galleria at Erieview in Downtown Cleveland, while the station transmitter resides in the Cleveland suburb of North Royalton. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WKNR is available online.
Historically, the station is perhaps best known by its former WJW call letters. During the early 1950s, Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed began to popularize the term "rock and roll" as a name for the music genre both through his late night WJW radio show, and by what is often considered the first major rock and roll concert: the WJW-sponsored Moondog Coronation Ball.
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