WYRE (AM)

This article is about a Top 40 radio station. For other uses, see Wyre (disambiguation).

WYRE
City	Annapolis, Maryland
Broadcast area	Baltimore, Maryland
Branding	KHZTV
Frequency	810 kHz
Format	Top 40
Power	250 watts day
Class	D
Facility ID	70352
Transmitter coordinates	38°58′13.00″N 76°30′28.00″W / 38.9702778°N 76.5077778°W / 38.9702778; -76.5077778
Owner	Radio Broadcast Communications
Webcast
Website	khztv.com

WYRE (810 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 mix of current pop music. Licensed to Annapolis, Maryland, USA, it serves Annapolis and portions of the Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC areas.

The station started out as WASL, then several years later switched call letters to WIPA as it programmed a steady diet of uninterrupted Arthur Godfrey-style ukulele music. Under Jacob Einstein's management tenure, the station switched calls again, to WABW (signalling their coverage of Annapolis, Baltimore and Washington). Still an also-ran in the market, it received somewhat of a bump when it debuted Tony Donald, formerly from cross-town rival WNAV. Donald later surfaced on the other side of the Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, Maryland, at WCEM.

In the sixties the station assumed its present call sign (WYRE) as a Top 40 station featuring air personalities Barry Richards (later to move to progressive music WHMC, Gaithersburg), Kirby Scott (in between stints at WSBA, York, PA and WCAO, Baltimore) and Jack Alix (previously of WEAM and WPGC).

As of March 15, 2010, the station became part of the KHZTV network with stations throughout Maryland including WAMD in Harford County and WKHZ in Easton. Considered a multimedia platform with an internet tv channel playing videos and the audio on the networked radio stations, personalities such as Tracy Hart work as VJs.

External links

http://www.khztv.com/

Query the FCC's AM station database for WYRE

Radio-Locator Information on WYRE

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WYRE

Radio stations in the Baltimore, Maryland market

By AM frequency	600 680 750 810 860 970 1010 1090 1230 1300 1330 1370 1400 1430 1470 1570 1590 1620

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 90.5 91.1 91.5 92.3 93.1 93.5 95.1 95.9 97.9 99.1 100.7 101.9 102.7 103.1 103.7 104.3 105.7 106.5 107.9

By callsign	WAMD WBAL WBJC WBMD WCAO WCBM WDCH-FM WEAA WERQ-FM WFBR WFSI WHFC WHGM WIYY WJZ WJZ-FM WKHS WLIF WLOY WLZL WNAV WNST WOLB WPOC WQLL WQSR WRBS WRBS-FM WRNR-FM WRYR-LP WTMD WTTR WTTZ-LP WWIN WWIN-FM WWMX WXCY WYPR WYRE WZBA WZFT

Defunct stations	WBIS (1190 AM)

Maryland radio markets Baltimore Frederick Hagerstown Salisbury–Ocean City Other Maryland radio regions Cumberland Northern Neck Oakland See also List of radio stations in Maryland Washington, D.C. Metro Markets Fredericksburg, Virginia

Daytime-Only radio stations in Maryland

Stations	WACA - Wheaton WBMD - Baltimore WCTR - Chestertown WDMV - Walkersville WFSI - Baltimore WKDI - Denton WKIK - La Plata WTRI - Brunswick WWGB - Indian Head WYRE - Annapolis

Defunct	WBIS - Annapolis

See also: Clear channel radio stations and Why AM Radio Stations Must Reduce Power, Change Operations, or Cease Operations at Night

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