WNEW-FM
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| City | New York |
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| Broadcast area | New York metropolitan area |
| Branding | Fresh 102.7 |
| Slogan | "Fresh Music... Better Variety" |
| Frequency | 102.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | August 25, 1958 |
| Format | FM/HD1: Hot adult contemporary HD2: Smooth jazz HD3: WINS simulcast (News) HD4: Russian programming ("Russkaya Reklama") |
| ERP | 6,000 watts |
| HAAT | 415 meters (1362 feet) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 25442 |
| Callsign meaning | New York |
| Former callsigns | WWFS (2007–2016) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (sale to Entercom pending) (CBS Radio East Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WBMP, WCBS, WCBS-FM, WCBS-TV, WFAN, WFAN-FM, WINS, WLNY-TV |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WNEW-FM (102.7 FM, "Fresh 102.7") is a New York City hot adult contemporary radio station owned and operated by CBS Radio. WNEW-FM's studios are in the combined CBS Radio facility in the West Soho section of Manhattan, and its transmitter sits atop the Empire State Building.
WNEW-FM is best remembered for one of its previous incarnations, a progressive rock radio format that began in 1967 and lasted into the 1990s. That station became very influential in the development of rock music during the 1970s and 1980s.
The station shared the WNEW call letters between 1958 and 1986 with former sister AM station WNEW (1130 kHz) and television station WNEW-TV (channel 5), with all being owned by Metromedia. After WNEW-TV was sold to the News Corporation in 1986 (and became WNYW), and the AM station was sold to Bloomberg L.P. in 1992 (and became WBBR), 102.7 FM retained the WNEW-FM callsign until it was changed in 2007; the callsign letters returned to 102.7 on March 15, 2016.
WNEW-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio format.
The 102.7 FM frequency was first assigned in the mid-1940s as WNJR-FM from Newark, New Jersey. Intended to be a simulcasting sister to WNJR (1430 AM, now WNSW), the FM station never made it to the air despite being granted several extensions of its construction permit. WNJR gave up and turned in the FM license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1953.
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