- WMEN
Infobox Radio Station
name = WMEN
city =Boca Raton, Florida
format =Sports radio
area =South Florida
branding = WFTL 640 Fox Sports
slogan =
airdate =
frequency = 640 kHz
erp = 7,500watt s daytime
460watt s nighttime
currently operating at 25,000watt s under a special temporary authority
currently has a construction permit for 50,000watt s under a special temporary authority
class = B
former_callsigns = WJNA
affiliations =Fox Sports Radio Florida Atlantic University Florida State University New York Yankees
on-air talent =Jeff DeForrest Warren Cromartie Andy Slater Ethan Skolnick Leslie Visser Mike Depasquale Troy Stradford
callsign_meaning = W MEN (target audience)
sister_stations =WFTL ,WLVJ ,WFLL
owner =James-Crystal Enterprises
webcast = [http://www.jamescrystalradio.com/640.asx jamescrystalradio.com]
website = [http://www.WFTLSports.com] |WMEN (640 AM) is a
Fox Sports Radio affiliatedradio station in Florida. The station currently carries the network after 10am weekdays, in addition to syndicated sports talk show hostsJim Rome andDan Patrick . WMEN also carries FAU and FSU football and basketball games. Local shows include Jeff DeForrest on "The First Team", Warren Cromartie on "Talking Hardball With The Cro", and Andy Slater on "The Slater Show". WMEN also carries .WMEN is located at 640 kHz and has been granted a construction permit for 50,000 watts/day, 25,000 watts/night from a tower site in
Belle Glade, FL . The power increase was approved because of interference from Cuban radio stations on the same frequency. Adding to that, the station has been granted aspecial temporary authority to operate at 50,000 watts day and night, with directional signals.Prior to becoming WMEN, the call letters were
WJNA , which had been on various frequencies in the market prior to 640AM. WJNA's format was "standards" or "nostalgia" which targeted older demographics. WJNA became WMEN on October 23, 2006, and changed formats to ManTalk 640. ManTalk was a talk radio format geared toward adult males, similar to talk formats found on FM. All shows carried by ManTalk were syndicated.WMEN changed to its current Fox Sports format on
2008-03-03 , but retained the WMEN call letters. On-the-air, the station calls itself, WFTL 640 Fox Sports, using the call letters of its sister stationWFTL (AM) . It is the Fox Sports Radio affiliate for not only the West Palm Beach radio market, but also for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market replacingWAXY who moved to Sporting News Radio. [http://www.premiereradio.com/news/view/491.html] In the past, 640 AM carried Marlins baseball as the Palm Beach affiliate of the Marlins Radio Network before games moved toWEFL . Currently, WMEN serves as the home of theFlorida Panthers hockey team if theFlorida Marlins are playing simultaneously onWAXY . [http://panthers.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=358809&page=NewsPage&service=page]External links
* [http://wftlsports.com/ WMEN official website]
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