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1550 AM

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4550460 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1550 kHz: 1550 AM is a clear-channel frequency reserved for Canada. Class A CBEF in Windsor, Ontario, broadcasts on 1550 kHz. Clear-channel status had also been shared with XHRUV in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, but that station switched to FM only, with the AM station now silent. See also List of broadcast station classes.

Argentina

LT 23 in San Genaro, Santa Fe

LT 40 in La Paz, Entre Rios

LT 32 in Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires

Estación 1550 in Buenos Aires

La Amistad in José C. Paz

Popular in José León Suárez

Canada

Stations in bold are clear-channel stations.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1550 AM” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wikimedia, list and article, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1550—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wikimedia, list and article is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4550460. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1550.

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This entry incorporates text from “1550 AM” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.