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WSSP (1250 AM) is a Milwaukee-based sports talk station owned by Entercom. Its studios and transmitter are co-located in Hales Corners. The station is the secondary home station for any play-by-play sports coverage on WTMJ-AM (620) which conflicts with another event; for instance the Milwaukee Bucks air on WSSP if a Milwaukee Brewers game airs. If a Green Bay Packers game airs at the same time as a Brewers game, the Brewers game aired on WSSP. Packers games are almost without exception first priority and never pre-empted on WTMJ except in playoff situations for the other teams depending on how far either team advanced. Since September 2008 however, the secondary rights for Brewers and Packers games have moved to WTMJ's FM sister WKTI (94.5). WSSP is also the play-by-play home of Milwaukee Admirals hockey. The station has been simulcast on WXSS-FM (103.7)'s HD2 HD Radio subchannel since October 2010. WSSP also aired syndicated programming from Fox Sports Radio until January 2013, when they switched to CBS Sports Radio. In July 2014, the station began broadcasting on an FM translator station using the WXSS-HD2 signal, W289CB, from Shorewood on 105.7 FM. This became the primary signal for branding on October 1, 2014, as the station rebranded as "105.7 The Fan".〔(WSSP Rebrands as 105.7 The Fan )〕 ==History== The 1250 AM facility went on the air as WMAW on March 24, 1948.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=fPUDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA9&dq=WMAW&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q=WMAW&f=false〕 On August 16, 1948, the 5,000 watt station became the area's affiliate of the ABC Radio Network. In June 1952, the call sign changed to WCAN. Station owner Lou Poller eventually started WCAN-TV (Channel 25), one of the earliest UHF stations in the United States and an affiliate of the CBS Television Network, before CBS itself purchased a rival UHF facility. In 1955, Poller sold the 1250 AM license to the owners of WEMP, which had been operating as a 250-watt signal on 1340 AM. The new owners moved the WEMP call sign to 1250 AM, where it stayed for many years afterward. The station at 1340 AM, under new ownership, became WRIT.〔http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0058/t.377.html〕 Over the years, WEMP aired a variety of formats, including Top 40, Country music and adult contemporary. In the 1980s, WEMP switched to oldies, featuring personalities such as John Gardner, Dick Alpert and Ernie Bottom. During the 1990s WEMP ran Westwood One's oldies format with Gardner doing the morning drive. In August 1998 WEMP switched its format to brokered religious/Christian AC, retaining the WEMP calls. This format continued until WSSP launched in December 2004. The station launched the all-sports format on January 1, 2005 and stunted using Bobby Bear's "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts of Life." Longtime area broadcaster Chuck Garbedian anchored the morning show with Chicago native Johnny Vonn. Veteran sports talk show host Peter Brown was tabbed to do afternoon drive. The WEMP calls were used for a year in New York City by an all-news radio station between 2011 and 2012 (the current WFAN-FM), before returning to Wisconsin towards the end of 2013 for the new station WEMP in Two Rivers. 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「WSSP」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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