WSYR AM 570

A commercial AM radio station operating at 570 kHz in Syracuse, New York, and serving the Central New York region under the brand "Newsradio 570 WSYR." Owned and operated by iHeartMedia, the station broadcasts a news and talk format and has simulcast its programming on WSYR-FM at 106.9 MHz in Solvay since January 2011. The station transmits at 5,000 watts using a directional three-tower antenna array located near Onondaga Creek, with studios and offices on Plum Street in Syracuse. Weekday mornings feature a locally produced news and interview program, followed by nationally syndicated conservative talk programming carried through iHeartMedia's Premiere Networks subsidiary, including The Sean Hannity Show, The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, and Coast to Coast AM. The Mark Levin Show, distributed by Westwood One, airs on weeknights. Weekend programming expands to include shows covering personal finance, automotive topics, home improvement, and legal affairs, as well as specialty and paid brokered content. The station carries a Fox News Radio affiliation for world and national news updates. WSYR has a long broadcasting history in Central New York, tracing its origins to September 15, 1922, through its predecessor station WMAC, which merged with WSYR in 1930. The station received its first license in 1926.