WREB (defunct)

DWREB
City	Holyoke, Massachusetts
Broadcast area	Western Massachusetts
Frequency	930 kHz
First air date	1950^[1]
Format	Middle of the road
Language(s)	English
Power	500 Watts
Class	III-D (later D)
Facility ID	17727
Former callsigns	WREB (until December 17, 1992)
Owner	Valley Broadcasting Corporation (original owner^[2] Don Hancock Broadcasting, Inc. (3/17/1961-8/27/1965)^[3] Algonquin Broadcasting (8/27/1965-?) Dumont Holding Company (1/7/1987-end)^[4]

WREB was a radio station licensed to Holyoke, Massachusetts, broadcasting at 930 kHz AM. WREB left the air in September 1991 and its FCC license is deleted. The call letters were reassigned and are now used by an FM radio station in Greencastle, Indiana.

WREB was a 500 watt daytime, omnidirectional station. They were a music station playing primarily MOR through the 1960s. In 1968 there was summer evening rock show called "The Man From REB." Weekends were heavily religious and ethnic, including music programs in French (Leon Allary), Polish (Chet Dragon) and Italian. Local high school football was featured on Saturday afternoons. In 1971 they switched from MOR to a country music format with Cal McLain doing the morning show. In 1972 they switched to a talk format headlined by Tracy Cole, but continued with country music on the weekends and summer evenings. Long term on-air personalities were Wayne Dennis (PD, DJ and sports), Barbara Heisler (DJ and talk), Richard LaVigne (news & commentary) and Steve Hudgik (DJ).

WREB had studios at 300 High Street in Holyoke and their transmitter in Fairview (Chicopee).

References

Radio stations in the Springfield, Massachusetts market

By AM frequency	560 640 730 1250 1270 1450 1490 1600

By FM frequency	88.5 89.5 89.5 89.9 90.7 91.7 91.9 93.1 94.7 98.3 99.3 99.7 100.9 102.1 103.3 103.5 104.5 104.9 105.5 106.3 107.9

By callsign	W283CK WACE WACM WAIC WAQY WARE WCCC WCCH WEIB WFCR WHAI WHLL WHMP WHYN WHYN-FM WLCQ-LP WLHZ-LP WLZX WMAS-FM WNNZ WNNZ-FM WRCH WREA WRNX WSCB WSKB WSPR WTCC WWEI WWQZ WXOJ-LP

Defunct stations	930/WREB 1430/WPNI 105.1/WNEK-FM

Massachusetts radio markets Boston Cape Cod New Bedford–Fall River Springfield Worcester Other Massachusetts radio regions Pittsfield See also List of radio stations in Massachusetts Springfield TV

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