WOR is considered New York's oldest radio station under the same set of call letters, was one of the founding stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System, enjoyed its greatest modern success in the 60s as an eclectic full-service station home mixing talk and MOR music, with two "What's My Line?" regular panelists hosting daily interview shows (that would be Dorothy Kilgallen with her husband Dick Kollmar and Arlene Francis), fifteen-minute newscasts every hour even on the weekends and the unclassifiable Jean Shepherd and his 45-minute improvised flights of fancy every weeknight at 11:15 p.m.--the station lost its luster after the FCC-forced divestiture of its 60s and 70s owner RKO General and became a more conventional talk station in recent years--now it'll be owned by the Evil Empire and will probably be home to Rush Limbaugh and perhaps Sean Hannity after their WABC contracts run out (and will probably bring back Lonesome Rhodes Beck, who was dropped earlier this year): http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/wor-am-prominent-new-york-station-is-sold-to-clear-channel/
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