Radio One Buffalo Unveils 'Patriot' Plans For AM Talk Station

Radio One Buffalo Unveils 'Patriot' Plans For AM Talk Station

After teasing a new identity for the former Cumulus Media AM station, Radio One Buffalo has unveiled its plans for the signal formerly known as WHLD-AM. Under new call letters, WUSW-AM, owner Buddy Shula is launching 1270 The Patriot under Conservative Talk.

Buffalo Preps For The Patriot

• Buddy Shula’s Radio One Buffalo recently announced it was acquiring 5,000-watt WHLD-AM 1270/Niagara Falls, NY from Cumulus Media in a deal that would give Radio One Buffalo a pair of giant AMs (along with Oldies WECK-AM) serving the Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY market. Last month Shula told us that the FCC had granted the station new WUSW call letters, effective June 1, the same day that the LMA between Cumulus and Radio One Buffalo begins. You c…

Patriot To Arrive In Buffalo

After acquiring Conservative Talk “Talk 1270” WHLD Niagara Falls/Buffalo for $150,000 in May and flipping it to a temporary simulcast of Oldies “Big WECK” WECK Cheektowaga, Buddy Shula’s Radio One Buffalo will relaunch the station as Conservative Talk “1270 The Patriot” under its new WUSW call letters on Friday, July 4. The station will feature syndicated talkers including Premiere Networks’ Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Clay Travis and Buck Sex…