WPOP (1410 AM) is a commercial radio station in Hartford, Connecticut, broadcasting a news/talk/sports radio format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are located on Columbus Boulevard in Hartford. WPOP broadcasts at 5,000 watts. To protect other stations on AM 1410, it uses a directional antenna. The station's transmitter site is off Cedar Street in Newington, Connecticut. WPOP is also heard on the HD2 signal of co-owned WUCS 97.9 FM. A 220-watt FM translator simulcasts WPOP programming, W265EB at 100.9 MHz. Programming Weekdays begin with The Vinnie Penn Project, a wake-up talk and interview show shared with co-owned AM 960 WELI in New Haven, which also supplies Connecticut news briefs for WPOP. Also heard on weekdays are syndicated talk shows from Boston-based Howie Carr, as well as Mark Levin and Jesse Kelly. Some daytime hours are supplied by Bloomberg Radio. Fox Sports Radio is heard overnights and several hours on weekends. Weekends also feature syndicated shows from Glenn Beck, Joe Pags, "At Home with Gary Sullivan," "Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy," "The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra" and "Handel on the Law with Bill Handel," all syndicated by Premiere Networks, co-owned with WPOP by iHeartMedia. Two of Premiere's most successful syndicated weekday talk shows are not heard on WPOP because they are carried by talk radio rival AM 1080 WTIC: Sean Hannity and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Most hours on WPOP begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio. WPOP carries Fox Sports Radio programming overnight and some hours on weekends. It is also the Hartford network affiliate for New York Yankees baseball and New York Jets football games. In the summer, WPOP carries Hartford Yard Goats Minor League Baseball games, and in winter, carries Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Hartford Wolf Pack American Hockey League games. History On June 28, 1935, the station first signed on at 1380 kilocycles as WMFE in New Britain, Connecticut, about 10 miles southwest of Hartford. The station, owned by the State Broadcasting Company, began as a daytimer powered at only 250 watts, although its power increased to 1,000 watts, operating full-time, several years later. The station was an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network and changed its call sign to WNBC in 1936. (The station that would become better known as WNBC 660 AM in New York City carried the call letters WEAF