Rochester’s legendary news/talk brand WHAM 1180 will celebrate its centennial anniversary on Monday. The iHeartMedia station debuted July 11, 1922, under the call letters WHQ.
According to Radio Online, Rochester Mayor Malik Evans will declare July 11, 2022, as “NewsRadio WHAM 1180 Day” in Rochester, NY.
WHAM will publish a podcast dedicated to the momentous event. iHeartMedia Rochester Creative Services Director and host Joe Lomonaco will play archive recordings and conduct interviews with current and former staffers at WHAM.
“With nearly 1,000,000 newscasts and even more conversations over the past 100 years, this iconic station has stood side by side with our listeners in good and bad times. Always present, always relevant, and always trusted,” said iHeartMedia Upstate New York President Robert J Morgan in a statement.
Western New York is a hotbed of historic news stories. Over the years, WHAM has reported on the Rochester riots of 1964, Attica Prison riot in 1971, Hurricane Agnes in 1972, the Ice Storm of 1991, the Northeast Blackouts of 2003, the Black Lives Matters protests of 2020 and the more recent Covid-19 Pandemic.
“NewsRadio WHAM 1180 has been a friend and source of information to generations,” Morgan added.
