Acerbic talk-show personality Morton Downey Jr. is coming to local radio Monday. Downey’s new radio program will air live from 9 a.m. to noon weekdays on WTAR-AM (790). “We hadn’t been doing a lot of ...

Radio personality Pat Murphy, who has been on the air in Hampton Roads for eight years, was fired from WTAR-AM (790) on Wednesday. The talk show host insists “it’s part of the business.” Murphy, who ...

Fall and winter will be a breeze compared to the schedule Pete Michaud has kept this summer. Michaud, WTAR-AM’s Hampton Roads Admirals and Old Dominion University basketball play-by-play man, is ...

Station owner Bob Sinclair insists this is not a joke. As of noon, Monday, June 20, news station WTAR-AM (850) has traded headlines for punch lines. Now called Funny 850, the station is broadcasting ...