WIP-FM

WIP-FM (94.1 FM) — branded Sports Radio 94 WIP — is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania serving the Delaware Valley area. Owned by CBS Radio, the WIP-FM studios are located on the 9th floor of 400 Market Street in Philadelphia, PA, and the station's transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. Since 1992, WIP-FM has served as the flagship station for the Philadelphia Eagles.

On September 2, 2011, the station ended its run as classic rock station 94 WYSP.

Start as WIBG-FM

In Philadelphia, FM frequency 94.1 began as WIBG-FM, the sister station of WIBG, and mostly simulcast the AM top-40 station until the mid-1960s, when it began to experiment with a prerecorded "underground rock" format without announcers. In 1968, owner Storer Broadcasting shut the station down while attempting to get permission for an increase in transmission power. WIBG-FM was a restricted class B station at the time, limited in range to avoid interfering with WKOK-FM in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. During 1969, the call letters were officially changed to WPNA when Storer sold WIBG (AM). The station remained silent and the call sign would be changed again before it returned to the air.

WIP

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WTEL (AM)

WTEL is a Philadelphia radio station with an all-sports format. Located at 610 AM, the station adopted its current all-sports format in 1988 after making a 2-year transition to the format. Owned and operated by Beasley Broadcast Group, the WTEL studios are located on the 9th floor of 400 Market Street in Philadelphia's Center City and its transmitters are located in the Crescent Park section of Bellmawr, New Jersey.

WTEL broadcasts in the HD Radio format on 610 AM.

Overview

The station was formerly known for its influence on the Philadelphia sports fanbase. Its prominent hosts included Angelo Cataldi, who arranged for a group of Eagles fans to attend the 1999 NFL Draft in New York and demand the Eagles select University of Texas at Austin running back Ricky Williams with their #2 pick (which led to the infamous booing of the decision to select Donovan McNabb), and Howard Eskin, whose achievements included the Terrell Owens "funeral" (following the announcement of Owens's four-game suspension from the Eagles during the 2005-2006 season), and a short-lived hunger strike in support of trading Philadelphia 76ers superstar Allen Iverson. The station was also known for hosting the annual eating contest, the Wing Bowl.