940 WINE sold flips to Portuguese language programming

[MarcB]

Townsquare has sold 940 WINE Brookfield/Danbury to International Church of the Grace of God for $150,000. The station flips to Portuguese Nossa Radio USA. Nossa Radio USA is also heard on 1260 in Boston and 1400/107.1 in Ft. Lauderdale.

Nossa Radio Comes To Danbury

International Church of the Grace of God has brought their Brazilian targeted Portuguese language "Nossa Radio" to Danbury CT with

radioinsight.com

 

[CTListener]

Is there much of a Brazilian community in Danbury?

 

[davideduardo]

Is there much of a Brazilian community in Danbury?

I believe there is a significant Portuguese community.

 

[CTListener]

I believe there is a significant Portuguese community.

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Thanks. The Insight article mentioned only Brazilians as the target audience. It's amusing to see some of these places listed. Pemberwick is a tiny neighborhood in super-rich Greenwich. I wonder how much of its "Portuguese" population even understands the language. Does "Portuguese Population" refer to all people of Portuguese ancestry or only first-generation, Portuguese-speaking? Many of the other places listed aren't too far from Rhode Island, which has a significant number of first generation Portuguese, Cape Verdeans and Brazilians. So, eastern and southeastern Connecticut would appear to be better fits for this Portuguese-language religious format than western Connecticut.

 

[davideduardo]

Thanks. The Insight article mentioned only Brazilians as the target audience. It's amusing to see some of these places listed. Pemberwick is a tiny neighborhood in super-rich Greenwich. I wonder how much of its "Portuguese" population even understands the language. Does "Portuguese Population" refer to all people of Portuguese ancestry or only first-generation, Portuguese-speaking? Many of the other places listed aren't too far from Rhode Island, which has a significant number of first generation Portuguese, Cape Verdeans and Brazilians. So, eastern and southeastern Connecticut would appear to be better fits for this Portuguese-language religious format than western Connecticut.

Probably the only station available.

If you want a station too badly, you end up buying a bad station.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

There has been a low power (class D) portugese station in bridgeport for decades.. lower expenses, little paid staff... doesnt have to maintain a public file.. but WFAR seems to do OK

 

[davideduardo]

Thanks. The Insight article mentioned only Brazilians as the target audience. It's amusing to see some of these places listed. Pemberwick is a tiny neighborhood in super-rich Greenwich. I wonder how much of its "Portuguese" population even understands the language. Does "Portuguese Population" refer to all people of Portuguese ancestry or only first-generation, Portuguese-speaking? Many of the other places listed aren't too far from Rhode Island, which has a significant number of first generation Portuguese, Cape Verdeans and Brazilians. So, eastern and southeastern Connecticut would appear to be better fits for this Portuguese-language religious format than western Connecticut.

And that brings us to the point that Brazilian Portuguese is a lot more different than, let's say, US English and Jamaican English.

 

[Mediafrog+]

And that brings us to the point that Brazilian Portuguese is a lot more different than, let's say, US English and Jamaican English.

Portugal‘s public broadcaster RTP used to have an extensive international shortwave schedule. Its Portuguese accents were quite different than anything coming out of Brazilian stations.

 

[Rusty Muck]

Townsquare has sold 940 WINE Brookfield/Danbury to International Church of the Grace of God for $150,000. The station flips to Portuguese Nossa Radio USA. Nossa Radio USA is also heard on 1260 in Boston and 1400/107.1 in Ft. Lauderdale.

Nossa Radio Comes To Danbury

International Church of the Grace of God has brought their Brazilian targeted Portuguese language "Nossa Radio" to Danbury CT with

radioinsight.com

Talk about turning water into WINE.

I’ll be here all night, be sure to try the waitress and tip the veal!

 

[luperm]

They got robbed. That station is worthless.

 

[MarcB]

There has been a low power (class D) portugese station in bridgeport for decades.. lower expenses, little paid staff... doesnt have to maintain a public file.. but WFAR seems to do OK

What station in Bridgeport? In the 90s there was a station there on 1530 that simulcast the Portuguese programming from 1380 WFNW in Naugatuck. The guy sold the station and eventually the new owners turned 1530's license into the FCC.

As for WFAR they used to have a translator on 104.9 in Bridgeport. Very low power. They sold that translator to John Fuller for Bomba Radio. He juiced up the power to 250 wattts. Then some woman on Long Island cried to WIHS 104.9 in Middletown that she could no longer receive WIHS and with the help of WIHS, John got the Bomba Translator to move to 104.5 FM. I'll keep my opion about that woman on Long Island to myself.

 

[pjc1961]

Nossa Rádio USA | A Rádio dos Brasileiros na América
with Listen Live link for "940 AM Danbury CT" in upper right corner of webpage.

Direct streaming URL for media player use: http://www.appradio.app:8074/live
(or open in a browser page/tab)

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As SomeRadioGuy referenced, for WFAR: Radio WFAR

Listen Live ("Radio Portugal"): https://live365.com/embed/popout.html?station=a26017&s=md&m=dark

Direct streaming URL: https://streaming.live365.com/a26017

 

[Weiserguy]

Pemberwick is a tiny neighborhood in super-rich Greenwich.

It is???

I spent four years working in Greenwich, in the aptly-named Greenwich Office Park, commuting in from Stamford. Four years. Until now I'd never heard of Pemberwick. And according to Apple Maps, the Greenwich Office Park is IN (or immediately adjacent to) Pemberwick.

Damn. Learn something new every day.

 

[CentralFL]

WINE has a decent signal which covers Danbury, but is essentially only daytimer. Hopefully they will succeed, but....

 

[RF101]

On the West Coast the Portuguese-speaking population is now into the upper age demographics. Most of the Californian speakers were from the big Azorian migration in the 50s and 60s due to the volcano. Only two stations continue in majority Portuguese language broadcasts: KSQQ, KLBS.

 

[CTListener]

Other than WJFD (New Bedford, MA), WFAR and, now, WINE, I can't think of any others in New England. Are there any in NY or NJ?

 

[fybush]

Other than WJFD (New Bedford, MA), WFAR and, now, WINE, I can't think of any others in New England. Are there any in NY or NJ?

There aren't, because the immigration from Portugal and Cape Verde was pretty much entirely to the south coast of New England a couple of generations ago, not to NY/NJ.

That was the immigration wave that produced the listeners for WJFD, WHTB and WFAR. Most of those first-generation immigrants are gone now and their descendants have assimilated.

A much later wave of immigrants from Brazil are the audience targeted by Nossa Radio in Boston, Miami and now Danbury with WINE. This was the same wave that the leased time operator of WSRO and WBAS was targeting before those stations went silent. And again, mostly in southern New England, not NY/NJ

 

[davideduardo]

There aren't, because the immigration from Portugal and Cape Verde was pretty much entirely to the south coast of New England a couple of generations ago, not to NY/NJ.

That was the immigration wave that produced the listeners for WJFD, WHTB and WFAR. Most of those first-generation immigrants are gone now and their descendants have assimilated.

A much later wave of immigrants from Brazil are the audience targeted by Nossa Radio in Boston, Miami and now Danbury with WINE. This was the same wave that the leased time operator of WSRO and WBAS was targeting before those stations went silent. And again, mostly in southern New England, not NY/NJ

So the stations that started decades ago were aimed at Portuguese immigrants, while the more recent are all Brazilian? That explains the severe language differences.

 

[RF101]

The real Brazilian population growth should be in Miami and Orlando. For now, it looks like Orlando can't support a 24x7 Portuguese language station.

 

[fybush]

So the stations that started decades ago were aimed at Portuguese immigrants, while the more recent are all Brazilian? That explains the severe language differences.

Portuguese, yes, and largely Azorean. Plus a lot from Cape Verde. It was fishermen going where the fishing was the best. Big wave, and then it ended and the next generations did what they all do.

When I worked alongside Gil Santos at WBZ in the 1990s, he could speak Portuguese, but I'll bet his kids can't/don't.