WADK 1540AM, 23 JT Connell Highway, Newport, RI (2026)

04/01/2026

We are excited to host the 2026 Expo on Wednesday, April 8th, from 4:00-6:30pm at Wyndham Newport at the Atlantic Resort.

This event features over 70 local businesses from industries including health and wellness, banking, community organizations, recreation, home improvement, IT, Senior Living, and more!

Guests will enjoy complimentary food and beverage samples, giveaways, raffles, and fun demonstrations.

All are welcome to try out a variety of activities including VR Headsets, an AI Photo Bot and photo booth, DJ Music, chair massage, music lessons, and more.

The Expo offers free admission and free parking with no registration required and is open to all ages. There is a cash bar onsite, and Johnny's Restaurant & Patio is open for dinner!

Read more below and see full exhibitor list at here: https://business.newportchamber.com/events/Details/2026-expo-sold-out-email-kate-newportchamber-com-for-waitlist-1640137?sourceTypeId=Website

See you at the Wyndham on April 8th!

Greenvale Vineyards
Newport Craft Brewing & Distilling Co.
McGrath Clambakes and Catering
Ben & Jerry's
Rhode Island Small Business Development Center
Mixx 99.3
WADK 1540AM
Newport Gulls
Rhode Island Monthly
Town of Middletown, RI
The Bay Magazine
Newport Life Magazine
What's Up Newp
Portsmouth Business Association
Middletown, RI Patch
The Bubbler VR
Ocean State Drone Co

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10/03/2025

Some Friday Night Lights photos from tonight’s game Portsmouth vs Barrington

09/26/2025

Stop at Ben’s Furniture next time you’re in Newport!

09/14/2023

On This Day in History ....

1965 - The TV show My Mother the Car premiered.

1975 - Pope Paul the Sixth declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.

1982 - Fifty-two-year-old Princess Grace -- Grace Kelly of Monaco -- died of injuries she received after her car ran off a 45-foot embankment in France.

1985 - The Golden Girls debuted on NBC.

1994 - Acting Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig canceled the 1994 season on the 34th day of the players strike.

2001 - The FBI released the names of the 19 suspected hijackers who had taken part in the September 11th terror attacks on the U.S.

2009 - Dirty Dancing and Ghost star Patrick Swayze died from pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

2013 - NBA player LeBron James married longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson in San Diego, California.

2015 - Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richards was sentenced to three years' probation. She pleaded no contest to resisting arrest after she was kicked out of a Beverly Hills restaurant in April.

2020 - Astronomers reported possible signs of life on Venus after detecting phosphine in the planets’ atmosphere by telescope.

Today is...
Eat a Hoagie Day .... National Coloring Day ...
National Cream-Filled Donut Day .... Gobstopper Day ....
National Live Creative Day .... Support Latino Business Day ....

Listen to "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

09/13/2023

On This Day in History ....

1788 - The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

1969 - The long-running animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? debuted on TV.

1970 - The first New York City Marathon took place. Fireman Gary Muhrucke won the race.

1993 - Late Night with Conan O'Brien premiered on NBC.

1997 - Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.

1990 - Law & Order premiered on NBC. Its final episode aired May 24, 2010.

1998 - NBC's Frasier won its fifth consecutive Emmy award for best comedy series. The Practice won best drama.

2004 - Oprah Winfrey gave everyone in the studio audience of her TV talk show a brand-new Pontiac G-6 sedan, worth 28,500 dollars. (a total of 276 cars). Oprah announced the prize while jumping up and down, waving a giant keyring and yelling "You get a car! You get a car!"In reality, the gift wasn’t really from Oprah; Pontiac had donated the cars. Each of the recipients was left with a hefty bill of about $6,000 in federal and state income taxes.

2019 - US actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in prison for her role in a college admissions scandal.

Today is...
National Defy Superstition Day .... Fortune Cookie Day .....
Bald is Beautiful Day ..... International Chocolate Day .....
National Peanut Day ..... Snack a Pickle Day .... Positive Thinking Day ....
Supernatural Day .... Uncle Sam Day ....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1, and on wadk.com.. presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

09/12/2023

On This Day in History ...

1910 - Alice Stebbins Wells of Los Angeles was sworn in as America's first female uniformed police officer with full powers of arrest.

1953 - John F. Kennedy wed Jacqueline Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport. More than 800 people came to the church and three thousand rushed a police cordon to catch a glimpse of the happy couple.

1953 - Six months after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Krushchev was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

2010 - Miners trapped for more than a month underground in Chile were delivered ci******es and a much-needed power line.

2011 - The 9/11 Memorial Museum opened to the public in New York City.

2021 – The Taliban announced women must study in gender-segregated classrooms in Afghanistan.

2022 - Queen Elizabeth II's coffin made a ceremonial procession down the Royal Mile where 20,000 people queued to pay their respects.

Today is…
National Day of Encouragement ... National Police Women Day ...
National Report Medicare Fraud Day ... National Video Games Day .....
National Chocolate Milkshake Day ....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1,, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

09/08/2023

On This Day in History ....

1892 - An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in The Youth's Companion.

1900 - The most deadly hurricane in U.S. history struck Galveston, TX with 120 MPH winds. More than 6,000 people died, with some 2,500 buildings destroyed.

1930 - The comic strip Blondie first appeared in newspapers.

1966 - Star Trek debuted on NBC. It lasted a total of three seasons and 79 episodes before it was cancelled.

1971 - In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated. The opening featured the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

1974 - President Gerald Ford granted a "full, free and absolute pardon" to former President Richard Nixon for any federal crimes committed during his term of office.

1986 - The Oprah Winfrey Show was broadcast nationally for the first time. Oprah’s daytime television talk show turned her into one of the most powerful, wealthy people in show business and, arguably, the most influential woman in America.

1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Major League Baseball's record for home runs in a single season, hitting number 62 eclipsing the 37-year-old record held by Roger Maris.

1999 - Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley officially kicked off his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with a rally in his hometown of Crystal City, Missouri.

2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive U.S. Open title by defeating her sister, Serena, 6-2, 6-4.

2004 – NASA’s unmanned Genesis spacecraft, designed to collect samples of the solar wind, crash-landed after its parachute failed to open upon return to Earth.

2015 - Stephen Colbert debuted as the new host of CBS' Late Show, succeeding David Letterman.

2022 - Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96, at Balmoral Castle after ruling for 70 years as the UK's longest-serving monarch. Her eldest son inherited the throne as King Charles III.

Today Is...
National Date Nut Bread Day .... International Literacy Day .....
National Actors Day .... Star Trek Day .... World Physical Therapy Day ....
National Pledge of Allegiance Day .....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

09/07/2023

On This Day in History ....

1813 - The nickname “Uncle Sam” was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in New York’s Troy Post.

1940 - The World War II London Blitz began, during which N**i Germany bombed London for 57 consecutive nights. Some 40,000 people were killed and over a million left homeless.

1967 - The Flying Nun premiered on ABC, starring Sally Field.

1977 - President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaties, agreeing to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama on December 31, 1999.

1977 - Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than four years.

1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, ESPN, made its cable TV debut.

1992 - Fay Vincent resigned as baseball commissioner.

1999 - It was announced that Viacom was buying the CBS Corporation for 36 billion dollars -– the richest media merger in history at that time.

2014 - US Open Women's tennis player Serena Williams wins her 3rd straight US title; beating Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3, 6-3

2020 - India overtook Brazil to record the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases with 4.2 million.

Today Is...
Salami Day ..... National Acorn Squash Day ... Grandma Moses Day ....
Google Commemoration Day .... National Beer Lover’s Day ......
National Feel the Love Day .... National Grateful Patient Day .....
Superhuman Day .....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

09/06/2023

On This Day in History ....

1860 - Jane Addams was born. She was the founder of Hull House in Chicago and was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

1901 - President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz (CHOL-gosh). Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.

1970 - Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.

1975 - Martina Navratilova requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.

1996 - Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers. He was only the third person to have at least three thousand hits and 500 home runs.

1997 - Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey. Elton John performed his re-written version of “Candle in the Wind” at the funeral -- the first and only time he ever sang that version in public. More than two billion people watched the funeral on TV around the world.

1998 - Divers working off Nova Scotia found the flight data recorder from Swissair Flight 111, which had crashed, killing all 229 people on board. Unfortunately, it turned out the recorder had stopped working several minutes before the crash.

2000 - The Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, convened at the United Nations.

2002 - In New York, Congress convened at Federal Hall for a rare special session. The session was held in New York to express the nation’s mourning for the loss on September 11th, 2001 and unity in the war against terrorism.

2010 - Colombian Edward Nino Hernandez, who stood just 2 ft 3.46 inches tall, bested former record holder, the late Chinese national He Pingping, as the shortest man in the world.

2012 - President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president, for his second term.

2018 - Burt Reynolds died in Jupiter, Florida. The legendary Deliverance and Smokey and The Bandit star was 82.

Today is...
Read a Book Day .... National Coffee Ice Cream Day ....
Fight Procrastination Day .... Barbie Doll Day ..... Great Egg Toss Day ....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

09/04/2023

On This Day in History ...

1888 - George Eastman registered the name Kodak and patented his roll-film camera.

1972 - Swimmer Mark Spitz won an unprecedented seventh gold medal at the Summer Olympics by winning the 400-meter relay at the Munich games. Michael Phelps eclipsed the mark by winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust was convicted by a Soviet court and sentenced to four years in a labor camp. The charges concerned his daring flight into Moscow's Red Square. He was released after one year.

1998 - While in Ireland, President Clinton said for the first time that he was sorry about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and described his behavior as indefensible.

2006 -“The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin died while snorkeling in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and filming a documentary. He was fatally stabbed in the chest with a stingray barb. He was 44 years old.

2007 - Comedian Jerry Lewis apologized for using the word "fag" during his Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy.

2011 -Model/designer Lauren Bush married David Lauren, son of fashion designer Ralph Lauren at their 17,000 acre farm in Colorado.

2014- Iconic comedienne Joan Rivers died. She was 81. Rivers died after complications from an out-of-hospital procedure to improve her vocal cords.

2018 - F.B.I. announced they had recovered Dorothy's ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz". They had been stolen 13 years prior.

Today is...
Labor Day .... National Macadamia Nut Day .... National Newspaper Carrier Day ...
Eat an Extra Dessert Day .... National Wildlife Day .....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

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