WRCE

WRCE
City	Watkins Glen, New York
Branding	Classic Country 1490 WRCE
Frequency	1490 kHz
First air date	1968 (as WGMF at 1500)
Format	Classic Country
Power	880 watts (unlimited)
Class	C
Facility ID	49446
Transmitter coordinates	42°21′11″N 76°52′13″W / 42.35306°N 76.87028°W / 42.35306; -76.87028
Callsign meaning	W RaCE (allusion to Watkins Glen International Speedway)
Former callsigns	WGMF (1968-1999) WBZD (8/1999-11/1999) WGMF (1999-2004) WTYX (2004-2008)^[1]
Former frequencies	1500 kHz (1968-?)
Owner	Community Broadcasters, LLC
Sister stations	WNKI, WNGZ, WPGI, WWLZ
Website	WRCE Online

WRCE (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Watkins Glen, New York. The station is owned by Community Broadcasters, LLC. The station, which has historically been prone to numerous format changes in the past decade, carries a classic country format.

The station originally signed on in 1968 as WGMF,^[2] a daytime-only station on 1500 kHz (the same frequency as clear channel WTOP in Washington). The station later moved to 1490 kHz to broadcast 24 hours a day; In 2004, the station aired an adult standards format as WTYX. The station was assigned the WRCE call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on January 22, 2008.^[1]

WRCE's tower collapsed on December 14, 2009, killing a worker and causing the station to go silent.^[2] A new tower was constructed in 2010 by chief engineer Benjamin Van Patten.

From June 30 to July 4, 2011, WRCE ran a simulcast of "The Bunny", a temporary radio station run by the band Phish for their weekend long Superball IX concert festival at Watkins Glen International, also run on Sirius XM's Jam On station and the Phish website. The station had an eclectic mix of music from Phish and other artists, and had a live broadcast all eight sets of music performed by Phish over the weekend.

Along with the rest of Backyard Broadcasting's New York assets, WRCE was sold to Community Broadcasters, LLC effective August 26, 2013 at a price of $3.6 million.

Shortly after purchasing the station, Community Broadcasters ended the simulcast of WNGZ-FM and its affiliation with the Motor Racing Network, Performance Racing Network, Indy Racing Network, and Watkins Glen International Raceway. The station carried the ESPN Radio Network for a very short period in 2014 before the station switched formats to a satellite-provided classic country formats also in 2014, which is the current format.

References

1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
1 2 Fybush, Scott (2009-12-21). KDKA's Fred Honsberger Dies. NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved 2009-12-21.

External links

WRCE official website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WRCE

Radio-Locator Information on WRCE

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WRCE

Radio stations in the Elmira–Corning, New York market

Note: This market also includes areas around Sayre, Towanda, Mansfield, and Wellsboro in Pennsylvania.

By AM frequency	820 960 1000 1230 1310 1350 1380 1410 1450 1480 1490 (NY) 1490 (PA) 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 88.7 88.9 90.3 90.7 91.1 92.1 92.7 94.3 94.7 96.1 96.9 97.3 97.7 98.7 99.5 100.3 100.9 102.1 103.7 104.5 104.9 105.3 106.1 107.7

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Defunct stations	WHHO/1320 WWHG/1320/95.3 (call letters now used by a completely different station, in Wisconsin)

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Country radio stations in the state of New York

Stations	WBBI – Endwell WBBS Fulton WBEE-FM – Rochester WBGK – Newport Village WBKT – Norwich WBKX – Fredonia WBNR – Beacon WBRV-FM – Boonville WBUG – Fort Plain WCJW – Warsaw WCKR – Hornell WDBY – Patterson WDLA-FM – Walton WDLC – Port Jervis WDNB – Jeffersonville WDOS – Oneonta WFRG – Utica WFRY – Watertown WGNA-FM – Albany WHUG – Jamestown WHWK – Binghamton WINR – Binghamton WJVC – Center Moriches WKBE – Warrensburg WKLI-FM – Albany WKPQ – Hornell WKXP – Kingston WLFK – Gouverneur WLLG – Lowville WLNA – Peekskill WLSV – Wellsville WNBL – South Bristol Township WNCQ-FM – Canton WNSH – Newark/New York¹ WOKN – Southport WOLF-FM - Baldwinsville WPDM – Potsdam WPGI – Horseheads WPIG – Olean WQNY – Ithaca WRCE – Watkins Glen WRWB-FM – Ellenville WRWD-FM – Highland WUUF – Sodus WVNV – Malone WVTT – Portville WXRL – Lancaster WYRK – Buffalo WZKZ – Alfred

¹ = Although WNSH is licensed to Newark, NJ, it also serves the New York City area, with it's studios in New York City.

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