WREC (600 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. It broadcasts a talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Memphis. WREC is West Tennessee's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System. WREC is powered at 5,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array. The transmitter is on North Watkins Street, near Interstate 40 in Memphis. Programming is simulcast on 250-watt FM translator W221CR at 92.1 MHz. The station is also heard on an HD radio digital subchannel of co-owned 102.7 WEGR. Programming Talk shows WREC airs mostly nationally syndicated shows from Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of parent company iHeartMedia. Weekdays start with This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal followed by two hours of The Ben Ferguson Show. Ferguson is also heard for an hour in the afternoon. Also on the schedule are The Sean Hannity Show, The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Weekends feature shows on money, real estate, gardening and home improvement, with religious programs heard on Sunday mornings. Nationally syndicated shows from Kim Komando and Bill Cunningham round out the weekend schedule. Most hours begin with an update from the Fox News Radio Network. Sports In the fall of 2006, WREC assumed the broadcast rights for the Memphis Tigers football and basketball teams of the University of Memphis. Before carrying the Tigers, the station had long been the Memphis affiliate for Tennessee Volunteers football and basketball. History WOAN According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) records, WREC's origin dates to station WOAN, which consolidated with WREC in 1930, making WREC the oldest radio station in Memphis, going on the air a year before WMC. WOAN was first licensed on November 21, 1922 to "Vaughn Conservatory of Music (James D. Vaughn)" in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, operating on the "entertainment" wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz). Its call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs. WREC WREC was first licensed on January 17, 1924, as KFNG, owned by electrical engineer and radio dealer Hoyt Wooten. The original call letters were also randomly assigned, from an alphabetical roster of available call signs starting with "K", which were normally only issued