Our friends at WAKR are hosting a speaker series to benefit the Salvation Army. Their next speaker will be the Voice of the Browns and WKYC’s own, Jim Donovan. Major Charles Deitrick, from the ...

Thursday NEO Sports Insiders Editor Matt Loede joined 1590 WAKR host Brad Russell to talk about spring training for the Indians, as well as questions about the ...

It was all smiles, hugs and relief when WAKR midday host and program director Chuck Collins and his wife, Monika, walked into the Rubber City Radio studios.

WEWS Channel 5 and WKYC Channel 3 were big winners locally in the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters awards. On the radio side, WAKR AM/ 1590 dominated the awards. Channel 3 won second place in ...

AKRON, Ohio -- The radio world has lost a local legend. Bob Allen of 1590 WAKR fame passed away Monday, according to the radio station’s Web site. Allen, who retired in 2010, co-hosted the ...

(WAKR 1590-AM) Terence Nevins, the Elyria man who fatally shot Adam McNeal during a botched robbery last year pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges as part of a plea deal with ...

Former WHBC sports director and on-air afternoon talk show host Sam Bourquin has joined WAKR-AM 1590 in Akron and will air his first afternoon-drive show Monday.

Stark County residents love sports. And veteran broadcaster Sam Bourquin will be gabbing about it on a new radio show on 1310 AM WDPN in Alliance.

Earlier this week NEO Sports Insiders Editor Matt Loede joined 1590 WAKR afternoon host Sam Bourquin to talk about the early stages of spring training for the ...