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PNG City of license Scranton, Pennsylvania Broadcast area Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton Branding WARM 590 AM Slogan "The True Oldies Station" Frequency 590 kHz First air date 1940 Format Oldies Power 5,000 watts Class B Facility ID 70504 Transmitter coordinates 41.478554N 75.876442W Affiliations The True Oldies Channel (Cumulus) Owner Cumulus Media Sister stations WBHD/WBHT, WBSX, WMGS, WSJR Website Official WARM (AM) Website WARM (590 AM) is a radio station licensed to the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The station is also known as "The True Oldies Station" with Oldies programming featuring music from 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media. The station is a Class B AM broadcasting station according to the Federal Communications Commission. WARM broadcasts with a power of 5,000 watts with two types of directional antenna signal patterns during daytime and nightti me. The antenna patterns of the signal in both instances are generally aimed tow ards the southeast with some signal aimed towards the northwest from its transmi tting facility located 15 miles northwest of Scranton in Falls, Pennsylvania. WA RM uses five, 495 feet high broadcasting towers to transmit its signal from that location. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel from Cumulus Media Networks.[1] History WARM has a long and distinguished history in northeastern Pennsylvania broadcast ing. It was the predominant Top 40 format music station in the area during the 1 960s and into the 1970s. It was known during this era as "The Mighty 590".[2] WA RM has held its original call sign since it signed on the AM broadcast band in 1 940.[3] However, the station originally broadcast on a frequency of 1400 kHz dur ing its early years.[4] The station was an affiliate of the ABC radio network si nce the 1940s. After Citadel Broadcasting bought ABC Radio Networks in 2007, WAR M became an ABC Radio O&O station. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on Septembe r 16, 2011.[5] For a time in April 2009, WARM left the air due to transmitter problems; the sta tion then announced that it had no plans to return.[6] The host of the station's polka show told a reporter, "Unless there's a miracle, they ain't coming back." [7] However, on April 23, WARM returned to the air, still airing its oldies form at.[8]