radio station
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in the
Florida Keys
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, based in
Big Pine Key, Florida
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Geography
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pop
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Pop music, a musical genre
Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop! (British group), a UK pop group
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, and
rock music
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from the mid-1950s through the early-1990s) as well as
talk
Talk may refer to:
Communication
* Communication, the encoding and decoding of exchanged messages between people
* Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
* Lecture, an oral presentation intended to inform or instruct
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programming.
WWUS covers the lower and middle Keys, and reaches the coast of
Cuba
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near
Havana
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History
Originally, US-1 Radio had its signal on 93.5 FM and broadcast with much lower power. Now it is one of the most powerful stations in the Florida Keys and a reference for news and hurricane warnings for sailors and citizens of the Keys.
In August 2013, Gamma Broadcasting, LLC reached a deal to sell its Florida Keys stations (including WWUS) to Florida Keys Media, LLC (a company controlled by Robert H. Holladay). The sale of WWUS and WCNK, at a price of $475,000, was consummated on January 31, 2014.
In July 2024 the station was sold to Fiorini Keys Media, LLC
WWUS was honored with the 2018 National Association of Broadcasters Macaroni Award for small market radio station of the year. The news department was honored twice with the Radio Television Digital News Association National Edward R. Murrow Award, in 1999 for best small market radio continuing coverage of
Hurricane Georges
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, and again in 2011 for best small market radio newscast, Evening Edition.