WURN (AM)

Add links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
See also: WURN (disambiguation)

WURN
  • FCC
Facility ID4341
ClassB
Power
  • 50,000 watts (day
  • 5,000 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
25°50′34″N 80°25′12″W / 25.84278°N 80.42000°W / 25.84278; -80.42000
Translator(s)103.9 W280FV (Miami)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live
Websiteactualidadradio.com

WURN (1040

news/talk radio format. WURN is owned by Actualidad Media Group.[2]

The weekday schedule is made up of

all news blocks along with talk programs in the daytime and sports shows in the evening. Some hours, the station carries the audio from CNN en Español
.

WURN transmits with 50,000

MHz in Miami.[4]

During the 2020 election, some programs on WURN promoted falsehoods and conspiracy theories.[5][6]

History

Boynton Beach's first AM radio station was WZZZ, which broadcast with a

off the air in September 1965. It was eventually replaced by a newly licensed station on 1510 using the call sign WKAO. In the 1980s WKAO moved to 1040 kHz.[8] WKAO changed its call letters to WYFX on May 3, 1986. Subsequently the station changed its call sign to WJNA on November 1, 1996, to WJNO on September 22, 1997, to WBZT on March 6, 2000, back to WJNA on December 20, 2000, and to WLVJ on January 7, 2003.[9]

In June 1988, the station found its nighttime signal being subsumed by from 1040 AM "Radio Taino" in

Tampa radio market also experienced signal inference from Radio Taino.[10]

On January 24, 2012, the FCC approved the transfer of the station's broadcast license from James-Crystal Radio's subsidiary, JCE Licenses LLC, to a company known as Actualidad 1040AM Licensee, LLC.[11]

On April 26, 2016, WURN was granted a

construction permit to change its city of license from Boynton Beach to Miami, increase day power to 50,000 watts, increase night power to 5,000 watts and move the transmitter to the same site as WMYM.[12]
WURN was issued a license for this change effective February 9, 2018.

In effect, on December 16, 2016, WURN and its co-owned station, WLVJ, flipped frequencies. WURN moved from AM 1020 to AM 1040. WLVJ did the reverse, moving from AM 1040 to AM 1020.

Logo before translator sign on

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WURN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. fcc
    .gov.
  3. ^ Radio-Locator.com/WURN
  4. ^ Radio-Locator.com/W280FV
  5. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  6. ^ Univision. ""The rhetoric is out of control, more than usual." The disinformation wars in Miami take an ugly turn". Univision (in Spanish). Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  7. ^ Palm Beach Post, April 11, 1962, page 15
  8. ^ Palm Beach Post, March 19, 1966, page 33
  9. ^ "WURN Call Sign History". fcc.gov.
  10. ^ "Cuban Broadcasts Overpower Radio Station - tribunedigital-sunsentinel". Archived from the original on December 10, 2017.
  11. ^ Application Search Details fcc.gov. Accessed February 27, 2015
  12. ^ "Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WURN_(AM)&oldid=1221259379"