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WXRF
WXRF (1590 AM), branded on-air as Radio Guayama is a radio station licensed to serve Guayama, Puerto Rico. The station is part of the WAPA Radio News Network and is owned and operated by NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC, and features programming from CNN en Español. It airs a Spanish-language News/ Talk format. The station is shared with translator station W280FS 103.9 FM also in Guayama. Call letters The station was assigned the WGYA call letters by the Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains j ... (FCC) on March 24, 2014. It changed back to its original WXRF call sign on August 2, 2017. Translator stations References External linksFCC History Cards for WXRF * XRF Radio stations established in 1948 1948 establishments in Puerto Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAPA (AM)
WAPA (680 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, broadcasting a news-talk format. The station serves as the flagship station of the WAPA Radio News Network and is owned by Wifredo G. Blanco-Pi (d/b/a NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC). It is an affiliate of CNN en Español radio news network. The station is rebroadcast at 95.3 FM by translator station W237FF, also located in San Juan. WAPA's programming is heard on over seven AM radio stations and their associated FM translators across the island: History The station's original call sign, WAPA, was a partial abbreviation of the station's original owners, the now-defunct Asociación de Productores de Azúcar, or Puerto Rico Sugar Grower's Association. In the late 1960s, it was acquired by Hearst Corporation. In 1991, it was acquired by NotiRadio Broadcasting (Eng. Wifredo G. Blanco-Pi, owner and his son Eng. Jorge Blanco, news director). In 1996, NotiRadio Broadcasting acquired radio station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTIL
WOSO (1300 AM), branded on-air as Radio Oso, is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, it serves the Puerto Rico area. The station is currently owned by NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC. The station is part of the WAPA Radio News Network and features programming from CNN en Español. The station is shared with translator station W265EC 100.9 FM, also in Mayaguez. WOSO was founded in 1950 by Gilbert Mamery as WTIL, and changed owners over the years. It is the second oldest radio station in the western region. Sale to NotiRadio Broadcasting On June 21, 2017, WTIL bought from La Mas Z Radio, Inc. to Wifredo G. Blanco Pi, swapping WBYM 1560 AM in Bayamon to La Mas Z from WTIL, in a three-way swap. The deal also involved International Broadcasting Corporation receiving land and equipment at the site of WAPA 680 AM in Carolina, PR from Blanco Pi and permission to relocate WGIT 1660 AM in Canovanas to that site and build a transmitter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMIA (AM)
WMIA (1070 kHz), branded on-air as MIA Radio Arecibo is an AM radio station licensed to serve Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The station is owned by Wifredo G. Blanco Pi and it is part of the WAPA Radio News Network. It airs a news/ talk format and features programming from CNN Radio. The station is shared with translator station W227DY 93.3 FM also in Arecibo. The station was assigned the WMIA call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. Ownership In 1957, WMIA began operations on 1070 kHz. The station was owned and operated by Abacoa Radio Corporation until April 2017. On March 2, 2017, Wifredo G. Blanco Pi reached an agreement to purchase WMIA from Abacoa Radio Corp. The sale was completed on April 12, 2017. This becomes the fifth station of the WAPA Radio News Network. The WAPA Radio Network now consists of seven AM and seven FM radio stations across the island, WAPA 680 / W237FF 95.3 in San Juan, WMIA 1070 / W227DY 93.3 in Arecibo, WVOZ 1260 / W268DJ 101.5 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBQN
WBQN (1580 AM), branded on-air as Radio Borinquen is a radio station broadcasting a news talk format. Licensed to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, it serves the Western Puerto Rico area. The station is part of the WAPA Radio News Network and it is currently owned by NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC, managed by Wifredo G. Blanco-Pi. The station is shared with translator station W286DL 105.1 FM also in Aguadilla. History WBQN (as WCQC) was founded in 1981 by Cuban station engineer Wifredo G. Blanco-Pi. The station was originally licensed to Morovis, Puerto Rico and It was the first station nationwide to operate an experimental synchronous booster at Manati, P.R. in 1987. Blanco-Pi had to sell the station in 1991 to acquire WAPA 680 AM in order to expand the NotiRadio Network. The experience he acquired with WCQC's experimental synchronous booster made him possible to expand the NotiRadio network using this technology. Sale to International Broadcasting Corporation In 1988, WCQC was sold to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMTI (AM)
WMTI (1160 kHz), branded on-air as Manatí 1160 is an AM radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. It is licensed to Barceloneta–Manatí, Puerto Rico, and serves the Puerto Rico area. The station is owned by Wilfredo G. Blanco-Pi and is part of the WAPA Radio News Network. The station is rebroadcast by FM translator W287DR 105.3 FM, also in Barceloneta-Manatí. The station was assigned the WBQN call letters by the Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains j ... on January 24, 1974. It began broadcasting in March 1975 and was originally owned by Ángel Rivera. The station changed its call sign to WAPA on May 27, 2022, to WISO on June 10, 2022, and then to WMTI on June 24, 2022. Translator References External linksFC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVOZ (AM)
WVOZ (1260 Hertz, kHz), branded on-air as Radio Voz is an AM radio station broadcasting a news talk format as part of the "WAPA Radio News Network". Licensed to Ponce, Puerto Rico, the station is owned by Wilfredo G. Blanco Pi, licensed to NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC. Its programming is also carried by FM translator station W268DJ at 101.5 MHz, also in Ponce. History The station was first licensed, as WISO, in 1953 to the South Puerto Rico Broadcasting Company. On May 23, 2022, after WAPA-TV acquired radio stations WKAQ (AM) and FM in San Juan, and in order to avoid confusion between unrelated broadcasting entities, branding for "WAPA Radio" was changed to "Borinquen Radio". The WBQN call letters that had been assigned to a station on WMTI (AM), 1160 AM in Barceloneta-Manatí were moved to the former WAPA (AM), WAPA at 680 AM in San Juan on May 27, and several other call sign changes were made around the network. One resulting change occurred on June 14, 2022, when WISO's cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was established pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the previous Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries in North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations Established In 1948
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves. They can be received by other antennas connected to a radio receiver; this is the fundamental principle of radio communication. In addition to communication, radio is used for radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of License
In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator. In North American broadcast law, the concept of ''community of license'' dates to the early days of AM radio broadcasting. The requirement that a broadcasting station operate a ''main studio'' within a prescribed distance of the community which the station is licensed to serve appears in U.S. law as early as 1939. Various specific obligations have been applied to broadcasters by governments to fulfill public policy objectives of broadcast localism, both in radio and later also in television, based on the legislative presumption that a broadcaster fills a similar role to that held by community newspaper publishers. United States In the United States, the Communications Act of 1934 requires that "the Commission shall make such distribution of licenses, frequenci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Station
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in '' satellite radio'' the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network that provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast, or both. The encoding of a radio broadcast depends on whether it uses an analog or digital signal. Analog radio broadcasts use one of two types of radio wave modulation: amplitude modulation for AM radio, or frequency modulation for FM radio. Newer, digital radio stations transmit in several different digital audio standards, such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), HD radio, or DRM ( Digital Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AM Broadcasting
AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions. It was the first method developed for making audio radio transmissions, and is still used worldwide, primarily for medium wave (also known as "AM band") transmissions, but also on the longwave and shortwave radio bands. The earliest experimental AM transmissions began in the early 1900s. However, widespread AM broadcasting was not established until the 1920s, following the development of vacuum tube receivers and transmitters. AM radio remained the dominant method of broadcasting for the next 30 years, a period called the " Golden Age of Radio", until television broadcasting became widespread in the 1950s and received much of the programming previously carried by radio. Later, AM radio's audiences declined greatly due to competition from FM (frequency modulation) radio, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), satellite radio, HD (digital) radio, Internet radio, music streaming services, and podca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
