WHAS (AM)

WHAS
Broadcast areaLouisville metropolitan area
Frequency840 kHz
BrandingNewsradio 840 WHAS
Programming
FormatNews/talk
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WAMZ, WKJK, WKRD, WSDF, WNRW, WQMF, WTFX-FM
History
First air date
July 18, 1922 (1922-07-18)
Former frequencies
  • 833 & 619 kHz (1922)
  • 750 & 619 kHz (1922-1923)
  • 750 kHz (1923-1927)
  • 650 kHz (1927)
  • 930 kHz (1927-1928)
  • 820 kHz (1928-1941)
Call sign meaning
"We Have A Signal" (a backronym, as the call was randomly assigned by the government)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID11934
ClassA
Power50,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen Live
Websitewhas.iheart.com

WHAS (840 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky and owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. Its studios are at Fourth Street Live! in downtown Louisville. First licensed in July 1922, it is the oldest radio station in Kentucky.

Its transmitter site is in Long Run, in far east Jefferson County. WHAS operates around the clock on 840 kHz as a 50,000 watt non-directional clear channel station. Its daytime signal can be heard in almost all of central Kentucky, as well as large slices of Ohio and Indiana, providing city-grade coverage as far east as Lexington, as far south as Bowling Green, and as far north as Cincinnati. Its nighttime signal can be heard with a good radio in most of the continental United States and much of Canada.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WHAS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.