What is "wknr"

WKNR (850 AM) – branded ESPN 850 WKNR – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland. Owned by Good Karma Brands, WKNR is one of two Cleveland affiliates for ESPN Radio; together, WKNR and sister station WWGK comprise a local sports radio duopoly known as ESPN Cleveland. WKNR itself also serves as: a co- flagship station for the Cleveland Browns Radio Network; the primary Cleveland affiliate for the Ohio State IMG Sports Network; and the radio home of Jerod Cherry, Tony Grossi, Matt Wilhelm, and Brian Windhorst. WKNR also shares coverage of the Cleveland Monsters. The WKNR studios are located in the Galleria at Erieview in Downtown Cleveland, while the station transmitter resides in the Cleveland suburb of North Royalton. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WKNR is available online.

Historically, the station is perhaps best known by its former WJW call letters. During the early 1950s, Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed began to popularize the term " rock and roll" as a name for the music genre both through his late night WJW radio show, and by what is often considered the first major rock and roll concert: the WJW-sponsored Moondog Coronation Ball.

WKNR may refer to:

• WDTW (AM), a radio station (1310 AM) licensed to Dearborn, Michigan, United States, which identified as WKNR from 1963 to 1972
• WHKW, a radio station (1220 AM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which identified as WKNR from 1990 to 2001
• WKNR, a radio station (850 AM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which has identified as WKNR since 2001
• WNIC, a radio station (100.3 FM) licensed to Dearborn, Michigan, United States, which identified as WKNR-FM from 1963 to 1972