WRCR

WRCR (1700 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format with a morning News-Talk show. WRCR is licensed to Ramapo, New York and serves Rockland County. The station is owned by Alexander Broadcasting, Inc. and features hourly newscasts from the USA Radio Network. The studios and offices were on the upper level of the Nanuet Mall. After the Mall closed the station moved to Provident Bank Park. WRCR broadcasts an adult contemporary music format on weekdays, with a News/Talk morning show. Brokered programming, sold to local businesses and community organizations, is heard middays and weekends.

WRCR is the only radio station providing news and information specifically for Rockland County. WRKL 910AM in nearby Pomona, New York, switched to an all-Polish format on March 18, 1999.

On July 13, 2015, WRCR moved from 1300 to 1700 kHz in the AM expanded band, increasing its power from 500 watts to 10,000 watts by day and 1000 watts at night. The higher wattage allows the station to be heard over a wider area of the lower Hudson Valley and Northern New Jersey. The station also switched its City of license to Ramapo from Spring Valley, New York, both communities in Rockland County.

WRCR (college radio)

WRCR was a carrier current college radio station at Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois. It was conceived by a group of students in the fall of 1962. On December 20, 1962, the establishment of a radio station on campus was approved by Rockford College Board of Trustees. The Executive Board of Rockford College Student Government recognized WRCR as a communications medium on February 5, 1963, and WRCR began regular carrier current broadcasting on March 17, 1963, from room 206 in Nelson Hall.

In the Fall of 1964, WRCR moved to a larger space on the first floor of Burpee Center. Then in the Fall of 1970 the station moved to custom designed studios in the lower level of the new Burpee Center addition. In 1985 the college needed the space in lower Burpee and WRCR was again on the move. The new location was three rooms in the former Lang Infirmary. By 1993 as the college population changed from primarily residential to half-commuter student body, it became more and more difficult to staff the radio station. WRCR ceased broadcasting in the Spring of 1995.