WCUM (1450 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, it serves the Bridgeport area. WCUM’s transmitter and studios are both located on State Street and Chopsey Road in Bridgeport. The station is owned by David Webster, through licensee Trignition Media, LLC. WCUM is a

simulcast Simulcast (a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast") is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously) ...

WRYM WRYM (840 AM; "Viva Radio") is a commercial radio station licensed to New Britain, Connecticut, and serving the Hartford metropolitan area. The station is owned by licensee Trignition Media, LLC. It simulcasts a Spanish-language contemporar ...

(840 AM) in

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and

WWCO WWCO (1240 kHz "Viva Radio") is a commercial radio station licensed to Waterbury, Connecticut, and owned by David Webster's Trignition Media LLC. WWCO is a simulcast of its sister station in New Britain, WRYM (840 AM); the stations' programming ...

(1240 AM) in

Waterbury Waterbury is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Waterbury had a population of 114,403 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 Census. The city is southwest of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford and northeast of New York City. Waterbury i ...

History

The station was known as WNAB until 1985 when it left the air. It returned with an

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. Since 2 ...

format later that year as WJBX and later became Radio Cumbre in 1989. WCUM was purchased by David Webster of Trignition Media, LLC on June 11, 2023. On July 11, 2023, WCUM began simulcasting

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