WTLN (AM)
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| Affiliations | Salem Radio Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WORL | |
| History | |
First air date | December 5, 1947 |
Former call signs |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 23442 |
| Class | B |
| Power |
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Transmitter coordinates | 28°34′27″N 81°27′46″W / 28.57417°N 81.46278°W |
| Translator(s) | 101.5 W268CT (Orlando) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | thewordorlando.com |
WTLN (990
WTLN broadcasts by day at 50,000
History
Early years
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On December 5, 1947, WHOO first
An advertisement in the 1948 Broadcasting Yearbook stated that WHOO celebrated its debut broadcast with 5,000 guests, a New York dance band and a full-time "girl singer." It boasted that it had Orlando's first city room to gather local and Florida news stories and the largest sports staff.[4] A short time later, it added FM station WHOO-FM (now WOEX).
In the late 1950s, as network programming moved from radio to television, WHOO shifted to a
Standards, country and rock
A succession of formats followed over the next several years: the station was briefly WHTQ in 1988,
On December 4, 1993, WHOO returned to adult standards, this time using the
Radio Disney
In 2001, WHOO was acquired by the
On August 13, 2014, Disney put WDYZ and 22 other Radio Disney stations up for sale, in order to focus on digital distribution of the Radio Disney network.[6][7] On December 15, Radio Disney Group filed to sell WDYZ to the Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.[8] Pennsylvania Media is a subsidiary of the Salem Media Group.[9] The FCC granted the sale on February 10, 2015.[10]
Salem ownership
On March 10, 2015, Salem Media CEO Ed Atsinger revealed that WDYZ would be the eighth company-owned station to carry Salem's "Radio Luz" Spanish Christian format.[11] On March 18, 2015, WDYZ dropped Radio Disney programming and went silent.[12] The sale was consummated on March 27, 2015.[13] On April 13, 2015, WDYZ returned to the air with a Spanish Christian format, branded as "La Nueva 990."
On August 5, 2019, WDYZ flipped to English-language
Previous logo
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WTLN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "WTLN-AM 990 kHz - Orlando, FL". radio-locator.com.
- ^ "W268CT-FM 101.5 MHz - Orlando, FL". radio-locator.com.
- ^ a b WHOO (advertisement), Broadcasting Yearbook (1948 edition), page 107.
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2002-2003 page D-99
- ^ Lafayette, Jon (August 13, 2014). "Exclusive: Radio Disney Moving Off Air to Digital". Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "Radio Disney to Sell the Majority of Its Stations". Billboard. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 15, 2014. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ Parties to the Application - FCC
- ^ "Application Search Details - FCC".
- ^ "Salem Reveals Pending Formats For Disney Acquisitions - RadioInsight".
- ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA - FCC".
- ^ "Consummation Notice - FCC".
- ^ Salem Begins Orlando Format Shuffle Radioinsight - August 6, 2019
External links
- WTLN in the FCC AM station database
- WTLN in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for WTLN (covering 1945-1980 as WHOO)
- W268CT in the FCC FM station database
- W268CT at FCCdata.org