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| callsign_meaning = W BALtimore | owner = Hearst Corporation | sister_stations = WBAL-TV, WIYY | webcast = (Listen Live ) | website = (wbal.com ) }} WBAL (1090 kHz AM) is a News radio/Talk/Sports radio station located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Owned by the Hearst Corporation, WBAL broadcasts from a three-tower transmitting facility in Randallstown, Maryland. The station shares its studios and offices with sister stations WBAL-TV (channel 11) and WIYY (97.9 FM, formerly WBAL-FM) on Television Hill in Baltimore's Woodberry neighborhood. As a 50,000-watt Class A clear-channel station, WBAL is the most powerful station in Maryland. Its directional nighttime signal covers most of the eastern half of North America, and reaches as far as Nova Scotia and Bermuda. Its daytime signal easily covers most of the Washington metropolitan area, most of the Eastern Shore, and large portions of Delaware and Pennsylvania. WBAL employs the largest number of news staff of any radio station in the state. WBAL and WIYY are the only two radio stations still owned by Hearst. ==History== WBAL began broadcasting after being dedicated on November 2, 1925, as a subsidiary of the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company, a predecessor of Constellation Energy. WBAL's initial broadcasting studio was located at the utility's offices on Lexington Street, and it operated as part of the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Company.〔 On January 12, 1935, with radio becoming more commercialized, there was little justification for public service company ownership of a radio station, and WBAL was sold to the Hearst-controlled American Radio News Corporation, who operated it alongside the ''Baltimore News-Post'' and ''Baltimore American'' (later merged as the ''Baltimore News-American'').〔 In the 1930s, WBAL became the flagship station for the international broadcast of radio evangelist G. E. Lowman, which originated in Baltimore until 1959.〔O'Connor, Thomas H. ''Baltimore Broadcasting from A to Z'' (1985), p. 23.〕 During the 1960s, WBAL had a full service free-flowing Middle Of The Road music format heavily emphasising personality. The station played a mix of soft rock and roll and non rock songs/standards. By the early 1970s, the station had a full-service adult contemporary music format with the exception of weekday evenings, where the station employed talk programming. Among its personalities during that period were program host Jay Grayson, Harley Brinsfield (who had a long-running Saturday night jazz music program, ''The Harley Show''), and White House-accredited newsman Galen Fromme. In the early 1980s, WBAL began running talk shows overnights as well as evenings and continued to play some music during the day. Music gradually decreased and in the fall of 1985, WBAL had transitioned to its current news-talk format, winning 19 national Edward R. Murrow Awards since thenthe most of any local U.S. radio station.〔 Since the mid-1990s, the station has become increasingly conservative, both in its on-air personalities and its editorial disposition. WBAL offers no moderate or liberal talk shows in its programming. In 2010, WBAL switched its morning (5–9 AM) and afternoon (3–6 PM) drive-time shows to an all-news format, entitled ''Maryland's Morning News'' and ''Afternoon News Journal'' respectively (the latter show has since been renamed to ''Maryland's News Now''). The all-news blocks include national newscasts from ABC every 30 minutes; previously, the national feed had been provided by CBS at the top of each hour until 2014. Also in 2014, the station was re-branded as ''WBAL News Radio 1090'', to better reflect its status as Maryland's radio news leader. In addition to its analog 1090 kHz signal, WBAL is repeated on WIYY-HD2§,〔http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/132908/wiyy-drops-hd-only-music-channels〕 a digital subchannel of WIYY's HD Radio signal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WBAL (AM)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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