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WAKR (1590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Akron, Ohio, and known as "Soft Hits 93.5 FM". Locally owned and operated by Rubber City Radio Group, Inc., the station primarily services the Akron metropolitan area, including both Summit County and Portage County. The station's current format, launched on January 24, 2020, features soft adult contemporary music and program features that are characteristic of full-service radio. In addition to carrying local news reports and top-of-the-hour newscasts from CBS News Radio, WAKR is the Akron radio market affiliate for the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Cleveland Guardians radio networks, as well as the Ohio State Sports Network. Prior formats on WAKR have included talk radio (in three distinct iterations), oldies and adult standards. Signed on by S. Bernard Berk on October 16, 1940, WAKR was neither the first radio station to have been built in Akron, nor the oldest surviving station, but has had the most measured historical impact of any broadcast outlet in the city, especially during its first 50 years of operation. During its creative and ratings pinnacle in the 1940s and 1950s, WAKR employed a succession of announcers who would find greater success elsewhere, with Alan Freed, Scott Muni and Art Fleming being the most famous of alumni. WAKR's sustained success yielded both FM adjunct WAKR-FM (97.5) in 1947 and TV outlet WAKR-TV (channel 49, later 23) in 1953, and culminated as the flagship of "Group One Broadcasting", a nine-station chain with broadcast outlets in Akron, Dayton, Dallas and Denver. The station remained in the hands of the Berk family until a series of ownership transfers starting in 1986 resulted in the Rubber City Radio Group purchasing it and WONE-FM (the former WAKR-FM) in 1993; Rubber City has operated both stations in tandem with WQMX into the present day. WAKR's studios are located in Akron's Wallhaven neighborhood, while the station transmitter is located in the city's southeast side. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WAKR's programming is relayed over low-power Akron FM translator W228EL (93.5 FM) and is available online. (en) |
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7.258248E8 (dbd:second) Even though the job of a TV journalist has many repetitive actions, the substance of the job, the news, almost never repeats itself. This is something I discovered during my first serious job when I worked at WAKR TV and Radio in Akron. I spent three years there and loved the fact that the sense of discovery with my job changed every day as the news would change. (en) We had to send an engineer out with a reporter... they radioed it in and we would record it on discs. We didn't have tapes or wires; we actually put it on wax. (en) I always thought Chuck's strength was being positive, making people feel good about where they're working and what they're doing, and then he came back and tried to add onto that positive image... positive energy but yet continue to help you do better at your job, and feeling better as a person. (en) I think I did some good work here. I have four statewide awards to show for it. I can walk out of here with my head up and a lot of friends... I don't feel anything but good about the people I have worked with and the job I have done here. (en) Keeping the flame of 1590 WAKR, a vital and historic radio station burning brightly is not a job, it's a privilege. Add to that I get to compile and manage a library of songs we all grew up with, well, just try to drag me out of here. (en) Many a Hollywood star would envy fan mail... which averages about 500 letters and postcards a day... plus telegrams and special delivery epistles... A well-meaning mother was having trouble getting her baby to sleep... so she called WAKR to have Alan sing a lullaby... Result! Freed did... but the baby didn't. (en) He plans to do free lance TV work in the big city and don't be surprised if you see his face on some network video programs. (en) Berk wants to be Vice President-Broadcasting. The reason? Status! This is terribly important to him and you must know the man to understand his attitude. As I read it, Berk fears being 'shunted aside.' He craves recognition, doesn't want to be known forever as 'the man from WAKR.' More on this later. (en) Washington insiders don't give interested Akronites much chance of being granted a license for a third radio station in the rubber city ... I can't say we need it ... (en) Many times we would get off the air and be exhausted from laughing so much. I remember saying, "You know, Bob , these are the good old days." And they were. (en) |
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WAKR (1590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Akron, Ohio, and known as "Soft Hits 93.5 FM". Locally owned and operated by Rubber City Radio Group, Inc., the station primarily services the Akron metropolitan area, including both Summit County and Portage County. WAKR's studios are located in Akron's Wallhaven neighborhood, while the station transmitter is located in the city's southeast side. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WAKR's programming is relayed over low-power Akron FM translator W228EL (93.5 FM) and is available online. (en) |
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