WHSQ

WHSQ
Broadcast areaNew York metropolitan area
Frequency880 kHz
Branding
  • ESPN New York 880 AM
  • Mets Radio 880 AM (alternate)
Programming
LanguageEnglish
FormatSports radio
NetworkESPN Radio
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
OperatorGood Karma Brands (under LMA)
History
First air date
September 22, 1924 (1924-09-22)
Former call signs
  • WAHG (1924–1926)
  • WABC (1926–1928)
  • WABC-WBOQ (1928–1940)
  • WABC (1940–1946)
  • WCBS (1946–2024)
Former frequencies
  • 950 kHz (1924–1927)
  • 970 kHz (1927–1928)
  • 860 kHz (1928–1941)
Call sign meaning
Hudson Square
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID9636
ClassA (clear-channel station)
Power50,000 watts (unlimited)
Transmitter coordinates
Repeater101.1 WCBS-FM-HD2 (New York)
Links
Public license information
Webcast
Websitegoodkarmabrands.com/espn-new-york/

WHSQ (880 kHz, "ESPN New York 880") is an AM radio station in New York City, owned by Audacy, Inc. The station is operated by Good Karma Brands (GKB) under a local marketing agreement (LMA). It broadcasts a sports radio format as the co-flagship of the ESPN Radio network. WHSQ's transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx; its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada.

The station first signed on in September 1924 as Alfred H. Grebe's WAHG, becoming WABC in 1926. It was an affiliate and owned-and-operated flagship of the CBS Radio Network for much of its existence, and held the call letters WCBS from 1946 to 2024. In 1967, the station began an all-news format, competing primarily with WINS (1010 AM). WCBS later became a sister to WINS after CBS's merger with Westinghouse Broadcasting; the two stations were differentiated in their style and extent of coverage. In 2017, CBS Radio merged with Entercom (now Audacy), ending the ownership of WCBS by CBS.

In 2022, WCBS began to combine its operations with WINS. In August 2024, Audacy announced that it would end WCBS's all-news format after 57 years, and enter into an LMA with Good Karma Brands to operate the station under a sports format; in particular, it subsumed the programming of WEPN-FM, due to the expiration of GKB's LMA for the station with Emmis Communications.