WHSQ
ESPN Radio station in New York, 880kHz, formerly WCBS
WHSQ (880 kHz, "ESPN New York 880") is an AM radio station in New York City, owned by Audacy, Inc. The station is operated by Good Karma Sports (GKS) under a local marketing agreement (LMA). It broadcasts a sports radio format as the co-flagship of the ESPN Radio network. WHSQ's transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx; its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada.
The station first signed on in September 1924 as Alfred H. Grebe's WAHG, becoming WABC in 1926. It was an affiliate and owned-and-operated flagship of the CBS Radio Network for much of its existence, and held the call letters WCBS from 1946 to 2024. In 1967, the station began an all-news format, competing primarily with WINS (1010 AM). WCBS later became a sister to WINS after CBS's merger with Westinghouse Broadcasting; the two stations were differentiated in their style and extent of coverage. In 2017, CBS Radio merged with Entercom (now Audacy), ending the ownership of WCBS by CBS.
In 2022, WCBS began to combine its operations with WINS. In August 2024, Audacy announced that it would end WCBS's all-news format after 57 years, and enter into an LMA with Good Karma to operate the station under a sports format; in particular, it subsumed the programming of WEPN-FM, due to the expiration of GKB's LMA for the station with Emmis Communications.
Programming
WHSQ carries a mix of local and ESPN Radio national programming, The station is the flagship of the New York Mets Radio Network, as the rights are owned by Audacy rather than Good Karma, they are not part of the LMA and the station's advertising is sold by Audacy during Mets broadcasts.
“WHSQ” enters the record as eSPN Radio station in New York, 880kHz, formerly WCBS. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what WHSQ, ESPN and Radio can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1450606. VIAF identifies the subject as 150034986. The Library of Congress control number is n2003124857. Authority coordinates are 40.860, -73.785. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924, 1926, 1946 and 2024.
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