long island slogan your hometown station frequency 1390 khz first air date june 19 1955 format adult standards power 1 000 watts day 64 watts night class d facility id 14647 transmitter coordinates 40 54 55.00 n 72 39 28.00 w 40.9152778 n 72.6577778 w 40.9152778 ; 72.6577778 callsign meaning w riverhead affiliations abc news owner crystal coast communications webcast listen live website www.1390wriv.com wriv 1390 am is a radio station licensed to riverhead new york and serves eastern long island . it broadcasts an adult standards format . the station which has been owned since 1987 by crystal coast communications has daytime power of 1 000 watts and 64 watts at night . 1 history edit wriv studios in downtown riverhead the station then owned by the suffolk broadcasting corporation went on the air on june 19 1955 as a sister station to co owned walk and walk fm radio in patchogue new york . its 1st studio at 29 east main street burned within six months in what is listed by the riverhead fire department as one of the worst fires in the town s history . 2 in 1963 it was sold to island broadcasting system with its sister stations walk am & fm . island broadcasting was owned in part by nbc news anchorman chet huntley . 3 in 1965 wriv applied for a television license for channel 55 . 4 wriv tv which likely would have gone to air as the nbc affiliate for eastern long island held a construction permit for the station until the early 1970s . the channel 55 allocation was dormant until wlig tv went on the air in 1985 ; today channel 55 is known as wlny tv and is owned by cbs . wriv was sold again in 1981 to east end communications and was sister station to now defunct wgli 1290 in babylon before being sold to its current owners . wriv is the only commercial am radio station in the five east end towns of long island . it maintains an adult standards information format and has local personalities . the station is an affiliate of the abc information network . other personalities on the station over the years include ted brown following the demise of wnew well known voice over talent ed marshall and former walk morning personality bob klein . 5 references edit wriv am radio station information . radio locator . local radio station now one year old pdf . the east hampton star . east hampton new york . june 28 1956 . retrieved december 4 2015 . peconic resident buys macy radio stations pdf . the long island traveler mattituck watchman . southold new york . november 7 1963 . retrieved february 21 2016 . application is filed for r head tv station pdf . the long island advance . patchogue new york . august 12 1965 . retrieved june 12 2016 . radio personality bob klein dies at 92 . news 12 long island . september 21 2014 . retrieved february 20 2016 . external links edit wriv official website query the fcc s am station database for wriv radio locator information on wriv query nielsen audio s am station database for wriv v t e radio stations in the nassau suffolk long island market by am frequency nassau county 1100 1240 1520 suffolk county western & central 540 740 1370 1440 1580 eastern 1390 1570 by fm frequency nassau county 88.1 88.5 1 plainview 88.5 1 syosset 88.7 90.3 92.7 98.3 101.5 103.5 105.5 suffolk county western & central 88.1 88.9 89.3 90.1 91.3 91.9 93.3 94.3 94.9 97.5 102.3 103.1 104.5 105.7 106.1 eastern 88.3 88.7 2 89.9 90.7 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.9 93.3 93.9 94.5 94.7 95.3 96.1 96.5 96.9 east hampton 96.9 manorville 98.5 100.3 bridgehampton 100.3 westhampton 100.7 101.7 102.5 103.9 104.5 104.7 105.3 105.7 106.5 107.1 107.5 by callsign w215bt w217af w227an w227cl w233ai w235bb w243bf w245ba w262as w264aj w268an w283ba w283ck w289ad w289ax w293bt w298bn walk walk fm wapp lp wbab wbaz wbea wbli wbon wbzo wcwp wdba lp weer 2 wegb wegq wehm wehn welj wfrs wftu wgbb wgss whfm whli whpc wjjf wjvc wkjy wktu wkwz 1 wlie wlim wlir fm wlix lp wlng wnyg wnyh wpob 1 wppb wpty wqbu fm wrcn fm wrhu wriv wrli wshr wsuf wthe wusb wwsk wxba plus most new york city and some connecticut radio stations defunct wbau weeg wgli wlir wlng 1600 wsvv lp new york radio markets albany schenectady troy binghamton buffalo niagara falls elmira corning hudson valley nassau suffolk long island new york city olean plattsburgh poughkeepsie rochester syracuse utica rome watertown other new york radio regions ithaca jamestown dunkirk north country saratoga nyc metro markets long island hudson valley partial poughkeepsie middlesex somerset union monmouth ocean morristown bridgeport danbury new haven stamford norwalk see also list of radio stations in new york 1 under a shared time agreement . 2 station is silent . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wriv & oldid 724886232 categories radio stations in new yorkadult standards radio stations in the united statesmedia in suffolk county new yorkhidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 june 2016 at 04 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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