WRCR (1700 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Haverstraw, New York, and serving Rockland County.
WRCR broadcasts an adult contemporary music format with weekday talk radio and brokered programming.
Weekdays on WRCR feature a local news and call-in program, The Morning Show with Jeff and Will, in AM drive time.
WLIR had been the call sign for a popular modern rock FM station operating at 92.7 MHz on Long Island.
On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz.
Normally the FCC did not allow any stations to apply for operation on an expanded band frequency that were not included in its authorization list issued May 17, 1997.
However, in 2006 the commission granted a request allowing WRCR to move from 1300 to 1700 kHz, stating that a "waiver is warranted to permit the licensing of a station that could provide full-time local emergency radio service to Rockland County residents who would be at great risk in the event of a radiological emergency at the Indian Point facility".
The higher power allowed the station to be heard over a wider area of the lower Hudson Valley and Northern New Jersey.