WOR

-22 February 1922: WOR signed on. Station location was on the 6th floor of Bamberger's Department Store, 131 Market Street, Newark, NJ. WOR shared time with stations WDT and WJY.

-1924: WOR moved to 740, shared time with WJY

-July 1926:  WJY turns in license, WOR full time by default

-17JN27:  WOR assigned 710

-18 September 1927: WOR first New York station to carry the originating broadcast of the Columbia Broadcasting System, originating the broadcast.  Alternated carrying CBS programming with WABC of the Atlantic Broadcasting Company. To get a full time signal for CBS programming in New York, CBS offered to purchase WOR from Bamberger's in 1929.  WABC was priced cheaper.  WOR and CBS parted company in 1929.

-1929: R.H. Macy & Co purchases Bamberger's. WOR part of the package.

-1938: WOR experiments with fax transmission by transmitting, overnight, morning newspaper printed matter.

-February 1940: experimental FM W2XOR bows

-01 February 1941: WOR officially changes it's city of license to New York. Previously it had been Newark, NJ.

-1941: W2XOR becomes W71NY. Bamberger broadcasting Service also owns WOR 9, which airs from atop New Amsterdam Roff Theater before moving to Television center on 67th St

-January 1950 or 1952: R.H. Macy merges it's Bamberger Broadcasting (WOR, WOR fm, WOR TV, WOIC TV DC and 25% of the Mutual Network) into Thomas H. Lee Enterprises' Don Lee Broadcasting System (KFRC, KHJ, 2 more radio stations & Mutual- Don Lee western network).

-1959: WOR parts company with Mutual and becomes an independent station

-April 1973: WOR fm becomes WXLO

-August 1981: WXLO becomes WRKS, Kiss FM, owned by Emmis 

-1987: RKO-General is forced by the FCC to sell it's stations. WNAC tv 7 Boston sold at a loss, others at equipment value. 

-1989: Buckley Broadcasting purchases WOR 710