WFAS (AM)

WFAS (1230 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to White Plains, New York and serving Westchester County. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts at 1,000 watts from a transmitter site on Secor Road, in the Hartsdale section of town of Greenburgh, New York.

Programming

WFAS airs a sports format with programming from CBS Sports Radio. CBS Sports Radio is distributed and partially owned by Cumulus Media, parent company of WFAS.

History

Owned by Westchester Broadcasting Corporation, WFAS first signed on the air on August 11, 1932 from the Roger Smith Hotel, on the corner of Post Road and Chester Street in White Plains, NY. The call letters honor Frank A. Seitz, the father of the owner. WFAS broadcast 100 watts on a frequency of 1210 kHz from a T top antenna on the roof of the hotel. Prior to that, the station used the call sign WCOH when it was located in Yonkers (Westchester Broadcasting Corporation) and WBRS in Brooklyn (North American Broadcasting Corporation). WFAS had to share time on the 1210 kHz frequency with WBRB; Long Branch, New Jersey, WGBB; Freeport, New York and WGNY; Newburgh, New York. That was not an unusual arrangement in the early days of broadcasting when fewer frequencies were made available by the government.