WWJ (AM)

WWJ (AM)

WWJ (950 AM, "Newsradio 950") is Detroit, Michigan's only 24-hour all-news radio station. Broadcasting at 950 kHz, the station is owned and operated by CBS Corporation subsidiary CBS Radio. The station first went on the air on August 20, 1920 with the call sign 8MK. It is believed to be the first station to broadcast news reports regularly as well as the first regularly scheduled religious broadcast and play-by-play sports broadcast.

WWJ provides "Traffic and Weather on the 8s" which features 24/7 coverage by Detroit Traffic Reporters and AccuWeather forecasts. Although WWJ is the only commercial all news radio station in Michigan, co-owned WWJ-TV is the only CBS Owned-and-operated station without an evening or late night local news presence.

WWJ can be heard in every part of the state of Michigan during the nighttime hours, and much of southern Lower Michigan during the day. WWJ's signal can even be heard in the Upper Peninsula and Mackinac area at night, while often unlistenable just 40 minutes west of Detroit in the Ann Arbor area due to interference from co-channel WNTD in Chicago. WWJ's nighttime signal to the east is also impeded by WPEN in Philadelphia.

In recent years, WWJ has started to shy away from their moniker "All news, all the time", due to occasional broadcasts of sporting events. However, they remain a news radio network as a whole, using the new moniker of "Live, Local, and committed to Detroit". Along with sister station WXYT-FM, WWJ is the flagship station of the Detroit Pistons. WWJ is also the flagship station of Michigan Wolverines football.