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WMCA is an AM radio station in New York City, owned by Salem Communications and broadcasting with a Christian radio format consisting of music, teaching and talk programs. The station's studios are in Lower Manhattan and are shared with co-owned WNYM. WMCA's transmitters are located along Belleville Turnpike in Kearny, New Jersey. The station's daytime coverage includes New York City and Nassau and Westchester counties in New York State, as well as parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.
Prior to switching to its current programming in 1989, WMCA's best-known incarnations were as a locally-programmed talk radio outlet during the 1970s and 1980s; and before that as a Top 40 outlet featuring its lineup of disc jockeys, known as the "Good Guys". WMCA is credited with having been the first New York radio station to broadcast a recording by the Beatles.
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