connecticut branding wrym 840 am slogan la gigante frequency 840 khz first air date august 18 1946 format spanish tropical ; power 1 000 watts daytime 125 watts nighttime class d facility id 26314 callsign meaning rhyme branding as a beautiful music station 1 former callsigns wknb 1946 1962 affiliations cnn radio owner eight forty broadcasting corporation webcast listen live website wrymradio.com wrym 840 am is a radio station broadcasting an ethnic format . licensed to new britain connecticut usa it serves the hartford area . the station is currently owned by eight forty broadcasting corporation . history edit the station signed on august 18 1946 1 2 as wknb for kensington new britain 1 under the ownership of the new britain broadcasting company . 3 nbc bought the station in 1956 ; 4 however its main purpose in acquiring wknb was to obtain its sister television station wknb tv which it renamed wnbc ; it is now wvit . attempts were soon made to divest wknb supposedly because nbc was embarrassed to own a daytimer in the same market as wtic one of nbc radio s first affiliates ; however the station was not sold until 1960 when both wknb and wnbc were transferred to plains television which then sold the radio station to the beacon broadcasting company controlled by louis sodokoff the following year . 1 5 6 in 1962 the station took its present wrym callsign to reflect its conversion to a beautiful music format the first in connecticut . 1 by 1970 it had a middle of the road format ; 7 however wrym had also gradually increased its ethnic programming 7 8 culminating by 1975 with a move to a full time ethnic and religious format . 9 ownership was transferred to hartford city broadcasting in 1984 after the death of louis sodokoff . 1 wrym added nighttime service in 1998 upon the construction of a second tower . 1 six years later the station was sold to current owner eight forty broadcasting . 1 10 the station has been headquartered for decades at 1056 willard ave. newington connecticut usa in front of its radio towers . references edit a b c d e f g h wrym wknb main page . ct broadcast history . retrieved april 4 2010 . broadcasting cablecasting yearbook 1989 pdf . 1989 . p. b 54 . retrieved april 3 2010 . broadcasting yearbook 1948 pdf . 1948 . p. 92 . retrieved april 3 2010 . hearst acquires wtvw tv milwaukee ; nbc buys wknb tv new britain conn. broadcasting telecasting january 10 1955 pg . 7 . 1 permanent dead link nbc sells wnbc tv to scheftel group . broadcasting june 29 1959 pp. 73 74 . 2 permanent dead link 3 permanent dead link 4 changing hands . broadcasting september 28 1959 pp. 98 100 a b broadcasting yearbook 1971 pdf . 1971 . p. b 36 . retrieved april 4 2010 . broadcasting yearbook 1963 pdf . 1963 . p. b 81 . retrieved april 4 2010 . broadcasting yearbook 1976 pdf . 1976 . p. c 33 . retrieved april 4 2010 . fybush scott march 1 2004 . wzzd flips to conservative talk . northeast radio watch . retrieved april 4 2010 . external links edit official website query the fcc s am station database for wrym radio locator information on wrym query nielsen audio s am station database for wrym v t e radio stations in the hartford new britain middletown connecticut market by am frequency 840 910 1080 1150 1170 1230 1290 1360 1410 1480 1550 springfield massachusetts 560 by fm frequency 88.9 89.3 89.9 90.5 91.3 92.5 93.7 94.5 95.7 96.5 97.3 97.9 99.1 100.5 101.3 102.9 104.1 104.9 105.9 106.9 springfield massachusetts 93.1 94.7 102.1 by callsign waqy wccc wctf wdrc wdrc fm werb whcn whyn whyn fm wihs wjmj wkci fm wknd wkss wlat wmas fm wmrd wmrq fm wnez wnpr wnww wplr wpop wqtq wrch wrym wsdk wtic wtic fm wucs wwuh wwyz wzbg wzmx connecticut radio markets bridgeport danbury hartford new britain middletown new haven new london stamford norwalk see also list of radio stations in connecticut coordinates 41 41 10 n 72 43 47 w 41.68611 n 72.72972 w 41.68611 ; 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