WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5 is the audio brand serving Baltimore, MD and surrounding community that listeners tune to for news, weather, traffic and thought provoking talk content. The WBAL Brand is available on every device whenever you want content including WBAL 1090 AM with one of the most powerful signals in the region. You can also listen in Greater Baltimore on FM 101.5, on HD radios at 97.9 HD-2 and on numerous other digital platforms listed below.
The station’s news and talk format is both a source of information and entertainment. Our content includes both local issues as well as major national topics of interest. WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5 also employs the largest news staff of any radio station in the state, providing in-depth reports on local and regional issues.
WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5 is also the flagship radio station for the Baltimore Ravens, the Baltimore Orioles and Navy Football.
WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5 is owned by Hearst, a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, Calif., and radio stations WBAL and 98 Rock in Baltimore. Hearst TV reaches a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union, more than 300 magazines around the world including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men’s Health and Car and Driver; digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.