WNIS

AM 790 News Talk – WNIS is a broadcast Radio station from Norfolk, Virginia, United States, News, Talk, Sports, and Information programs.WNIS (790 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, and serving the Hampton Roads radio market. WNIS is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. It airs a talk radio format.

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WNIS has studios and offices on Waterside Drive in Norfolk. Its three-tower transmitter is off Hall Road in Hampton. It is powered at 5,000 watts around the clock, using a directional antenna.

Weekdays, WNIS has local morning drive time talk and information shows called “Marcrini’s Morning News” and “Karen and Mike.” Other weekday hours feature nationally syndicated shows from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Brian Kilmeade, Buck Sexton, “Coast to Coast AM with George Noory” and “This Morning, America’s First News with Gordon Deal.” Weekends feature shows on money, health, and fishing, with syndicated hosts including Bob Brinker, Clark Howard, Bill Cunningham, Larry Kudlow, and Art Bell. World and national news is supplied from Fox News Radio. The station signed on in September 1952 as WRAP, a daytimer at 1050 kHz, powered at only 500 watts. It was required to sign-off at sunset to avoid interfering with other radio stations on AM 1050, primarily XEG in Monterrey, Mexico.