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WIOD
City of license	Miami, Florida
Broadcast area	South Florida (targets Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
Branding	News Radio 610 WIOD
Slogan	South Florida's News, Traffic and Weather Station
Frequency	610 kHz
First air date	January 19, 1926
Format	News/Talk radio
ERP	5,000 watts Currently operating at 10,000 watts under a special temporary authority
Class	Class B AM Station
Callsign meaning	Wonderful Isle of Dreams
Affiliations	Miami Heat The Weather Channel Fox News Radio Dow Jones Radio Network WPLG
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	WBGG, WHYI, WINZ, WIOD, WLVE, WMGE, WMIB
Website	610wiod.com

WIOD is a news/talk radio station in Miami, Florida. For over 80 years, it has been a major information station talk radio in South Florida. It features a mix of nationally primarily conservative syndicated programs wrapped around locally produced, live news, traffic and weather reports, 24/7. "NewsRadio 610 WIOD" arguably features one of the largest radio news departments in the Southeast United States and has consistently been the most frequent winner in annual Florida Associated Press statewide competitions. 610 WIOD may be best known for its continuous hurricane coverage, particularly Andrew, Katrina and Wilma. Despite the station's class B status, it has strong daytime and nightime. This is due to parts of the tower's guy ground system resting in the brackish mix of fresh and salt waters of Biscayne Bay. WIOD took it's call letters from the idea that it broadcast from North Bay Village, or the "Wonderful Isle Of Dreams".

"WIOD", positioned as "South Florida's News, Traffic and Weather Station" is owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications, Inc., the largest U.S. radio owner. WIOD is an affiliate of the Fox News Radio network. It also is affiliated with The Weather Channel, Dow Jones & Company (for "The Wall Street Journal Business Report") and has a news and weather content sharing relationship with WPLG-TV ("Local 10"). 610 WIOD is the radio flagship of the 2006 NBA champions Miami Heat. It is also the "official" broadcast emergency station for the Broward County Commission.

WIOD's morning news program is hosted by long time market veteran Dave LaMont, with news updates from Natalie Rodriguez, Christine Kautz and Aron Bender. Traffic from Terri Griffin, weather from Megan Glaros of "Local 10" (WPLG-TV), and sports updates from Fox Sports Radio's Jorge Sedano, who is based in Miami. LaMont comments on the news, interacts with listeners and interviews news makers and other reporters, 5AM - 9AM. Like many other Clear Channel stations, most of the rest of the weekday line-up includes syndicated conservative talk programming day including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Todd Schnitt, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and George Noory's "Coast To Coast AM" program.

WIOD - under different ownership - boasts some big names along its alumni including but not limited to Larry King, Neil Rogers, Sally Jessy Raphael, Ron Bennington, Mike Reinieri, Bill Calder, Alan Burke, Sandy Peyton, Rick and Suds, Hank Goldberg, Randi Rhodes, Chris Baker, Phil Hendrie and Jack Ellery.

In June of 2007, the all-Democrat commission in Broward County was on the verge of rejecting WIOD as the official channel for emergency information because of concerns it is also home to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts. On his radio show Rush Limbaugh said, "They are politicizing the delivery of emergency news, which is non-partisan." After complaints from around the country the commission decided to keep using the radio station.

In 1964, WIOD ran a simulated horse race in which a computer program determined the greatest race horse up to that time. Man o' War was the winner. (From People's Almanac by Wallechinsky, Wallace, and Wallace, 1975.)

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