WKBN (570 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Youngstown, Ohio. It has a talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on South Avenue in Youngstown. WKBN is powered at 5,000 watts. By day, it has a non-directional signal covering Northeast Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and a section of West Virginia. At night, it uses a six-tower array directional antenna to protect other stations on 570 AM. The transmitter is on East Western Reserve Road at Beard Road in Poland, Ohio. Programming WKBN has two local talk hosts on weekdays, Dan Rivers in late mornings and Ron Verb during afternoon drive time. The rest of the weekday schedule is made up of nationally syndicated conservative talk shows, mostly from co-owned Premiere Networks. They include Sean Hannity, Joe Pags, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. On weekends, specialty programs on money, health, home improvement, technology, cars, veterans, real estate and the outdoors are heard, as well as repeats of weekday shows. Weekend syndicated shows include At Home with Gary Sullivan, Leo Laporte The Tech Guy, The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell and Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham. Some weekend hours are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio. The station also carries games for the Cleveland Guardians baseball team and Youngstown State Penguins football and basketball. History Early years The station was founded in 1926 by Warren P. Williamson, Jr. (1900–1996). It is Youngstown's oldest continuing operating radio station, signing on the air on September 26, 1926. It originally broadcast on 1400 kilocycles at 50 watts. The studios were in the basement of Williamson's home, but by the following year operations had moved to studios in the YMCA Building in downtown Youngstown. The license was held by the Radio Electric Service Co., and later WKBN Broadcasting Corporation. With the implementation of the FRC's General Order 40 on November 11, 1928, the station moved 570 kHz where it remains today. CBS programming Shortly after WKBN's launch, the station became a charter affiliate of the newly formed CBS Radio Network, a partnership that would last until the end of the century. WKBN carried CBS's schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the