WVOZ (1260
kHz
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), branded on-air as Radio Voz is an
AM radio
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station broadcasting a
news talk
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format as part of the "WAPA Radio News Network". Licensed to
Ponce, Puerto Rico
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, 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
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WAPA-TV maintains studio facilities on Luis Vigoreaux Avenue ...
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
1160 AM
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in Barceloneta-Manatí were moved to the former
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 call sign was changed to WAPA. The call sign was changed again in October 2024: to WBQN on October 11,
and to WVOZ on October 18.
Synchronous relay stations
Until 2017, WISO's programming was relayed through two experimental synchronous booster stations that also transmitted on 1260 kHz: WI2XSO, originally licensed June 6, 1999, in
Mayaguez, and WI3XSO, originally licensed October 22, 2002, in
Aguadilla
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.
[In re: WA2XPA, WI2XSO, WI3XSO: Petition for Reconsideration]
correspondence from Peter H. Doyle Chief, FCC Audio Division, Media Bureau, April 19, 2017.
On November 7, 2016, the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC) stated that the licenses for WI2XSO and WI3XSO would only be renewed for six months, after which the stations would be deleted. The reason given was that both stations had far exceeded the six-year maximum permitted for experimental authorizations.
Petitions for review of the order to cancel the licenses was submitted on November 23, 2016, and April 24, 2017. However, they were unsuccessful,
[ and the licenses for both WI2XSO and WI3XSO were deleted on May 16, 2017.
In 2018, a second station, WVOZ (1580 AM), changed its ]community of license
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In North American broadcast ...
from Morovis to Aguadilla, and began broadcasting from the former WI3XSO facility."In re: WVOZ-AM, Morovis, Puerto Rico: Informal Objection"
correspondence from Nazifa Sawez, FCC Assistant Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau, December 28, 2017.
Translator stations
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WVOZ(covering 1951-1980 as WISO)
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in the FCC Licensing and Management System
in the FCC Licensing and Management System
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Radio stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Puerto Rico
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