WOAI (AM)
WOAI (1200 AM) is a San Antonio, Texas, news/talk formatted radio station operating with 50,000 Watts non-directional day and night from a transmitter site near Marion, Texas. Current owner and operator San Antonio based Clear Channel Communications acquired the station in 1975 which founded the now worldwide owner of radio stations. WOAI-AM is also the flagship station for Clear Channel radio.
WOAI, a Fox News Radio affiliate, is consistently the highest rated AM news/talk formatted radio station in Texas. WOAI's local news operation, features market veterans Jim Forsyth and Michael Main. Market legend Bob Guthrie, who was a WOAI news anchor for 52 years, retired in 2009.
WOAI is also the flagship station for the San Antonio Spurs radio network. Other sports programming includes University of Texas Football and the Dallas Cowboys radio network.
WOAI radio and former sister station WOAI-TV heavily cross promote each other by sharing staff and resources such as news and weather reporters and sports commentators.
WOAI is known as the "50,000 Watt Blowtorch" of South Texas, because of its unlimited FCC clear channel classification. Like the handful of other clear channel AM stations (not to be confused with WOAI's parent company Clear Channel Communications), WOAI can be heard all over North and Central America after sunset. In the daytime WOAI covers most of central and south Texas.