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The term derives from the naval custom where the commanding officer of a group of naval ships would fly a distinguishing flag. In common parlance, "flagship" now is used to mean the most important or leading member of a group, hence its various uses in broadcasting.

In sports broadcasting, the "flagship" is the sports team's primary station in the team's home market. For example, WHFS-FM is the radio flagship station of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, which feeds Orioles' games to 20 stations in Maryland and adjacent states.

For traditional Radio Networks , current flagship stations are:

Former flagship stations for now-defunct networks in radio's "Big Four" era were:

  • – 660 kHz, New York (now WFAN )
    WYNY – 97.1 FM, New York (now WQHT )
    KNBR – 680 kHz, San Francisco
    KYUU – 99.7 FM , San Francisco (now KMVQ-FM )

  • – 710 kHz, New York
    WGN (AM) – 720 kHz, Chicago
    KHJ (AM) – 930 kHz, Los Angeles


For Syndicated radio programs, it refers to the originating station from which a program is fed by satellite or other means to stations nationwide. Flagship stations of prominent syndicated radio programs currently include: