iHeart’s WARF/Akron-Cleveland is now Fox Sports 1350 AM, The Gambler. The station will focus on sports talk with a concentration on gambling, including top-of-the-hour wagering updates from the Vegas Stats and Information and will feature programming from the BetR Network including My Guys in the Desert, hosted by Brent Musberger.
The station will also broadcast betting guides, handicapping, and betting strategies as well as signature programming from Fox Sports Radio including The Herd with Colin Cowherd and Fox NFL Kickoff Simulcast, as well as The Red Zone and The Lombardi Line, hosted by former Cleveland Browns GM Mike Lombardi.
“The Gambler is the future of sports radio,” said Keith Hotchkiss, President of iHeartMedia’s North Ohio region. “We are thrilled to bring this hot new format to the market, helping Clevelanders navigate the ever-growing world of sports wagering.”
How times have changed! Some fifty years ago, WCLM-FM/101.9 in Chicago lost its license for broadcasting gambling info over its SCA subcarrier, a subchannel which requires a special receiver and which was usually used for broadcasting background music to stores, offices, and restaurants.
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