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AM radio station broadcasting an

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, it served the San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area. The station was owned by Sherman Broadcasting Corporation, with Sherman Wildman as president. It featured local talk and information shows, a weekday

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History

WOSO was launched on November 21, 1977. WOSO was the only radio station in

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that broadcast in English full-time, until the

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station WCAD was launched in early 2019. (

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station broadcasting in both English and Spanish.) During its time on the air, WOSO provided the only English-language news-programming broadcasts in the United States territory of Puerto Rico and invited the few English-fluent politicians to appear on a weekly basis in its programming, notably then Rep.

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, who later became mayor of the capital city of San Juan, then Sen.

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, who later became President of the Puerto Rico Senate and Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, and then Sen. Juan Eugenio Hernández-Mayoral, son of late Gov.

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and uncle of current Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera. On October 21, 2014, after 37 years broadcasting on

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, WOSO signed off. The

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was vandalized and the

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was forced to shut down the station. After an initial effort to revive the station as an online stream, nothing further was heard. After more than 10 years off the air, the station's license was cancelled on December 11, 2024, as the station had not properly reported its operating status since July 2020 and had not operated at all since August 2021. The

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was quickly requested by

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in Mayaguez.

Ownership

In 1993, Sherman Wildman purchased WOSO for a reported sale price of $1.2 million.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for WOSO
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