WMEN
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| City of license | Boca Raton, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | South Florida |
| Branding | WFTL 640 Fox Sports |
| Frequency | 640 kHz |
| Format | Sports radio |
| ERP | 7,500 watts daytime 460 watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | W MEN (target audience) |
| Former callsigns | WJNA |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio Florida Atlantic University Florida State University New York Yankees |
| Owner | James-Crystal Enterprises |
| Sister stations | WFTL, WLVJ, WFLL |
| Webcast | jamescrystalradio.com |
| Website | [1] |
WMEN (640 AM) is a Fox Sports Radio affiliated radio station in Florida. The station currently carries the network after 3pm weekdays, in addition to syndicated sports talk show hosts Jim Rome and Dan Patrick. WMEN also carries FAU and FSU football and basketball games. On weekends, WMEN also carries New York Yankees baseball. The station is owned and operated by James-Crystal Enterprises.
WMEN is located at 640 kHz and has been granted a construction permit for 50,000 watts/day, 25,000 watts/night from a tower site in Belle Glade, FL. The power increase was approved because of interference from Cuban radio stations on the same frequency. Adding to that, the station has been granted a special temporary authority to operate at 50,000 watts day and night, with directional signals.
Prior to becoming WMEN, the call letters were WJNA, which had been on various frequencies in the market prior to 640AM. WJNA's format was "standards" or "nostalgia" which targeted older demographics. WJNA became WMEN on October 23, 2006, and changed formats to ManTalk 640. ManTalk was a talk radio format geared toward adult males, similar to talk formats found on FM. All shows carried by ManTalk were syndicated.
WMEN changed to its current Fox Sports format on 2008-03-03, but retained the WMEN call letters. On-the-air, the station calls itself, WFTL 640 Fox Sports, using the call letters of its sister station WFTL (AM)
[edit] External links
- WMEN official website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WMEN
- Radio Locator Information on WMEN
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WMEN
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