WHAM-AM (Rochester, NY)

WHAM (1180 kHz) is a prominent AM radio station situated in Rochester, New York. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., it features a News/Talk programming format. With a powerful 50,000-watt transmitter in Chili, New York, WHAM operates at the highest power level permitted for commercial AM stations in the United States. This allows its broadcast to reach listeners across much of the Eastern U.S. and parts of Canada, especially during nighttime. The station's studios are based at One HSBC Plaza in downtown Rochester, and it is affiliated with the Fox News Radio Network.

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Iran Rejects US Negotiations After Trump Gives Deadline

1 week ago | wham1180.iheart.com | Jason Hall

Photo: Getty ImagesIran said it would reject the option to hold nuclear talks with the United States after President Donald Trump publicly said it would have a two-week deadline to resolve its ongoing conflict with Israel before the United States military got involved. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said there was no room to negotiate with the U.S. "until Israeli aggression stops" in an address on state television via the New York Post.
Lonsberry: SISTER GRACE MILLER IS ON HOSPICE CARE

3 weeks ago | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Sister Grace is dying. She was in the hospital and she was at the Mother House and now she is back on the street, on Carter Street, in a hospice bed in a living room where visitors crowd amidst the medical supplies and the sound of traffic passing by outside.
Trump Receives Fighter-Jet Escort During Saudi Arabia Flight

1 month ago | wham1180.iheart.com | Jason Hall

Photo: Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump received a dramatic fighter jet escort before landing in Saudi Arabia Tuesday (May 13) morning, with six Saudi F-15s flying "in close proximity" to Air Force One during the final half-hour of its flight. Trump's deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino shared a video clip of the jets flying closely to Air Force One on his X account. "Good morning from Air Force One, Saudi Arabia! Thank you for the escort, and having President Trump’s back—We all appreciate it.
Lonsberry: TRUMP IS WRONG TO CANCEL VETERANS DAY

1 month ago | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Trump is wrong about Veterans Day. Completely, offensively, disappointingly wrong. In the dark of the night, governing via social media, he decided to do away with the day Congress and the American people have set aside to honor and thank those who have honorably worn the uniform of the United States. No more Veterans Day. This from a guy who holds power because veterans came out in droves for him on Election Day.
Lonsberry: DUMB AND DUMBER, STARRING MALIK AND DAVE

Mar 27, 2025 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

The city of Rochester is FUBARed. Today, stuttering behind a lectern, the mayor condemned a handful of city cops for backing up law enforcement officers who called for help. It was Malik at his worst, it was progressivism at its most disgusting. In a city where the murder of a legal immigrant hasn’t elicited a response from City Hall or the Sixth Floor, the mayor and the chief have taken some 10 cops off the street because of the handcuffing of two illegal immigrants.
Lonsberry: PENFIELD SCHOOL BOARD IS WRONG ABOUT DECENCY AND DEMOCRACY

Feb 12, 2025 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Last night, in a self-righteous fit, the Penfield school board stormed out. The room was packed, parents were pissed, and the board was having none of it. And so, after snottily informing the audience that this was the board’s meeting and that the public’s presence was disruptive, the president called for a motion to adjourn and after a few mumbled words of parliamentary procedure the board en masse stood up and walked out.
Lonsberry: THE STORY OF MY THURSDAY RUN

Feb 10, 2025 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

I had intended to run down South Avenue, maybe to Elmwood, and come back through Mount Hope, cross the Ford Street Bridge and head back on Exchange and then Broad. But on the corner of MLK, across from the ESL building, I heard the screaming of the sirens. It was chiefs’ trucks, SUVs, from the fire department. You can tell by the sound.
Lonsberry: WE ARE THE REASON FOR THE DIVISION

Oct 15, 2024 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

The politicians have always been snakes and the reporters have always been liars. What’s changed is us. As America sits ripped down the middle by politics, as partisanship has become the idol we all worship, the fault is our own. They – the press and the pols – are what they have always been. It is we who are at fault.
Lonsberry: FIRE ONONDAGA ELECTIONS COMMISSIONERS

Oct 8, 2024 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Fire them both. Onondaga County elections commissioners Dustin Czarny and Michele Sardo have failed in the most fundamental aspects of their jobs and have, according to a warning issued by the state, threatened the integrity of the looming election.
Lonsberry: DEMOCRATS KILLED WEST MAIN WALGREENS

Sep 24, 2024 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

It’s not corporate racism that’s closing the West Main Street Walgreens, it’s Democrat stupidity. As the mayor cries about “disinvestment,” the neighborhood association complains of abandonment, and the online progressives denounce institutional racism, the Walgreens is going to close because it has been killed by the political party to which all these people swear allegiance.