WPAM (1450 AM) was a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

licensed to

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, United States. Studios and transmitters were atop Lawton's Hill. Established in 1946, the station was owned by Curran Communications. On May 17, 2017, the

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informed WPAM that, as the station had been silent since at least July 23, 2015, it was in the process of cancelling the station's license; the license was canceled on June 29, 2017.

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Facility details for Facility ID 14741 (WPAM)
in the FCC Licensing and Management System * ( Guide to reading History Cards) (covering 1945-1981) PAM Defunct radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1946 1946 establishments in Pennsylvania Radio stations disestablished in 2015 2015 disestablishments in Pennsylvania PAM {{Pennsylvania-radio-station-stub