WOR is a class A, AM radio station located in New York, New York, U.S., operating on 710 kHz. The station has a talk format and is owned by Clear Channel Communications. WOR is one of the flagship stations of the Coast to Coast AM program and broadcasts the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football and basketball games, and beginning with the 2014 season serve as the new flagship for the New York Mets. WOR is now the new flagship station for Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity; both shows left longtime flagship WABC as of January 1, 2014.
Its call letters have no meaning, being sequentially assigned. They had previously been authorized for use by the ship SS California, owned by the Orient Lines.
The station broadcasts from its studios in the Tribeca district of Manhattan at the AT&T Building, and the transmitter is located in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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