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Cleveland is served directly by 29 AM and FM radio stations; numerous other stations are heard from elsewhere in Northeast Ohio.[110] WTAM, a news/talk station, serves as the AM flagship of Cleveland’s 3 major sports teams (the Browns, Cavaliers and Indians),[111] and as such,[112] is frequently among the highest rated stations.[113] Commercial FM music stations consistently round out the rest of Arbitron's top-ten:[113] Rock (WKRK-FM, WMMS, WNCX); Pop (WAKS); Hip-Hop/R&B (WENZ, WZAK); Classic hits (WMJI); Country (WGAR-FM); and Adult contemporary (WDOK, WQAL). WCPN public radio functions as the local NPR affiliate, and WCLV is one of the few remaining commercial classical music stations in the country.[114] WKNR covers sports via ESPN Radio, functions as the flagship station for both the Lake Erie Monsters and Cleveland Gladiators,[115][116] and serves the Cleveland affiliate for the Ohio State Buckeyes;[117] the station's frequency, 850 AM, was previously used by WJW (AM) — once the home of Alan Freed, the Cleveland disc-jockey, who, along with Cleveland record store owner Leo Mintz, is credited with first using the phrase "Rock 'n' Roll" to describe the music genre.[118] News/talk station WHK (1420 AM) was one of the nation's first 6 broadcast stations;[119] its former sister station, rock station WMMS (originally known as WHK-FM), dominated Cleveland radio in the 1970s and 80s and was at that time one of the highest rated radio stations in the country.[120] In 1972, WMMS Program Director Billy Bass coined the phrase "The Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World" to describe Cleveland.[17] In 1987, Playboy named WMMS DJ Kid Leo (Lawrence Travagliante) "The Best Disc Jockey in the Country



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