WFTD
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Branding | La Ley 1080 AM |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Spanish |
Format | Regional Mexican |
Ownership | |
Owner | Prieto Broadcasting, Inc. |
History | |
First air date | November 14, 1955 |
Former call signs | WBIE (1955–1974) WCOB (1974–1985) WEKS (1985–1987) WECA (1987–1988) |
Call sign meaning | Waiting For The Day (previous religious format) |
Technical information | |
Class | D |
Power | 50,000 watts day 30,000 watts critical hours |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°01′24″N 84°40′03″W / 34.023303°N 84.667372°W |
Translator(s) | 96.5 W243DQ (Marietta) since 2019 |
Links | |
Website | [ laley1080am.com | Website] (Incomplete) |
WFTD (1080
By day, WFTD operates at the maximum power permitted for AM radio stations, 50,000
History
On November 14, 1955, WBIE
From the 1980s through the 1990s, WFTD was the official radio home of Roswell Street Baptist Church and broadcast the weekly sermon of longtime pastor Dr. Nelson L. Price as well as additional RSBC programming. Roswell Street renamed the station as WFTD, which stands for "Waiting For The Day" that Jesus Christ returns.
Through the early 2000s, WFTD aired programming for the
On June 9, 2008, WFTD was a victim of a molotov cocktail bomb when a former employee who had been fired two months earlier walked into the station's Norcross studios and left a bomb there. As a result of the bomb, a small fire was sparked, but was quickly extinguished and the man who threw the cocktail suffered severe burns.[5]
By mid-2009, "Atlanta Radio Korea" was simulcasting its programming with 1040 WPBS. A short time later, "Atlanta Radio Korea" was heard exclusively on WPBS and dropped from WFTD. WFTD then started carrying Mexican-American music and talk programming under the "Radio La Ley 1080 AM" branding. From 2015, this station has been broadcasting Vietnamese programming.
In December 2016, Atlanta Radio Korea purchased WQXI (simulcasting WSTR) and flipped it Korean programming. In turn, Viet Song Media bought WPBS and switched it to Vietnamese programming on New Year's Day 2017. WFTD then flipped to oldies, specializing in tunes from the 1950s and early 1960s, without any DJs and repeating their identification after every song.
Effective July 1, 2017, WFTD dropped the temporary "oldies" format, and returned to Spanish language programming under the name "La Mega Mundial" (The latter format first appeared on
On January 2, 2018, its Spanish CHR format was relaunched.
References
- ^ F.C.C. AM Query
- ^ "W243DQ-FM 96.5 MHZ - Marietta, GA".
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-85
- ^ Greg Hardison
- ^ "Gwinnett Firebombing Suspect Burned During Attack". WSB-TV. June 9, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
External links
- FCC History Cards for WFTD
- Website
- WFTD in the FCC AM station database
- WFTD in Nielsen Audio's AM station database