Fairfield County”™s oldest radio station has become New Haven County”™s newest radio station.
WICC 600-AM has moved out of its Bridgeport offices at 350 Fairfield Ave. into a new setting at 440 Wheelers Farms Road in Milford. In its defection across county lines, WICC will join WEBE 108-FM, which recently left Westport for the Milford location. Both stations are owned by Connoisseur Media of Westport, which bought them from Atlanta-based Cumulus Media in April.
WICC began broadcasting Nov. 8, 1926, as the seventh radio station in the state and the second in Fairfield County ”“ the first, WAAQ in Greenwich, began in 1921 and ceased operations two years later. The station broadcasts a mix of local news and talk shows with nationally syndicated programming that includes consumer advocate Clark Howard, political commentators John Batchelor and Ben Shapiro and high-tech expert Kim Komando.
