WDBA-LP (105.5 FM) is a

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radio station broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

Farmingdale, New York Farmingdale is an incorporated village on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 8,466 at the time of the 2020 Census. The Lenox Hills neighborhood is adjacent to Bethpage State ...

, the station is currently owned by Fuente de Luz Radio, Inc.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on October 21, 2014, with a scheduled expiration of April 21, 2016. The new station was assigned the WDBA-LP

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by the FCC on October 28, 2014 and received its license to cover from the FCC on February 3,

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

. Initially, the station broadcast a

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format as "The Hawk," but wasn't able to get enough underwriters to sustain it. In late 2016, they switched over to Spanish Christian, and made the country format online only.

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2016 establishments in New York (state) DBA-LP DBA-LP Mass media in Nassau County, New York Oyster Bay (town), New York Radio stations established in 2016 DBA-LP {{NewYork-radio-station-stub