WARE (1250 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a classic hits format.

Licensed to Ware, Massachusetts, United States, the station serves the Springfield radio market.

It transmitted with 1,000 watts and had to go off the air at sunset to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 1250.

WARE is one of three stations in the United States where the call sign spells out the name of the city of license.

The other stations are WACO-FM in Waco, Texas, and WISE-FM in Wise, Virginia (a satellite of WVTF).