WHLD

WHLD is an AM radio station licensed to Niagara Falls, New York carrying CBS Sports Radio Network sports talk format, with two current shows airing locally . The station resides at 1270 kHz on the dial and is owned by Cumulus Media. The station's transmitter is located in Hamburg, New York, and studios are located in Buffalo with its Cumulus Media sister stations. It also is heard streaming on the stations website and its own "1270 The Fan" app.

WHLD signed on in 1941 under the ownership of Earl Clement Hull of Niagara Falls, New York. The station was later named after his second wife, Hilda Lewis Carpenter Hull, of Ontario, Canada. Earl C. Hull was a radio pioneer who entered St. Lawrence University in 1916 with impressive knowledge of wireless technology which he later applied to communication problems on the battlefield. His talents helped put the University radio station on air in 1922. He built WKY in Oklahoma City . In 1940 he returned to Niagara Falls, NY to establish WHLD. The radio station often programmed classical music and featured local artists. Among them was a continuing program of classical piano duets played by Niagara Falls pianist Harold Bradley and his friend John Peirce Langs from Buffalo, NY.

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