WHLL

WHLL (1450 AM, "1450 The Hall") is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Springfield, Massachusetts, it serves the Springfield metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting under the call sign WMAS.

Primarily, the station is formatted as a sports station, with programming from CBS Sports Radio. Saturday programming includes more locally oriented talk shows, including a food show. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and is the sister to WMAS-FM 94.7, also broadcasting from Springfield.

The station broadcasts from The James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Visitors to the Hall of Fame can watch the hosts of both the AM and FM studios from the northern entrance hall.

History

Albert S. Moffatt, a former newsreel photographer, was granted a construction permit by the Federal Radio Commission in May, 1932, with the sequential call sign WHEU. Before the station signed on, its call sign was changed to the more memorable WMAS. The station's studios were in the Hotel Stonehaven, and when it signed on for the first time, on September 1, 1932, it broadcast on 1420 kHz with 100 watts.