Another historical question (Thanks to Ramón Rivero "Diplo")

[thathoustonradiogeek]

While checking out Diplrg I found these scans of the Album de la Radio.
http://diplo.org/album/us/album_us.htm

Only 5 stations in all of PR in 1940, a afaaaaaar cry from the 100+ (AM & FM) there are now.
http://diplo.org/album/us/album1_us.htm

The 2nd. edition show more stations. 23 in fact
http://diplo.org/album/us/album10_us.htm

Most of these stations still exist to this day (WITA is now WQII. WEMB was shut down when El Mundo Broadcasting purchased WKAQ) There are other stations whose calls I don't recognize: whatever happened to those?

Also: Seems that the 1941 NARBA treaty didn't apply to Puerto Rico
(http://members.aol.com/jeff560/1946am.html)

To wit:
580 WIAC (now on 740)
620 WKAQ (now on 580)
990 WPRA (still there)
1230 WKVM (originally from Arecibo, now on 810 San Juan)
1320 WNEL (originally from San Juan, now on 1430 Caguas)
1370 WPAB (now on 550)
1400 WAEL (now on 600)
1420 WPRP (now on 910; 1420 later became WEUC and is now WUKQ)

No mention of WAPA, WKJB or WORA though. (I got WAEL's old freq. from the Diplo.org site.)

When did the Puerto Rican AM stations move to the frequencies they now occupy?

And when did FM broadcasting begin in PR?

Thanks in advance.

 

[davideduardo]

While checking out Diplrg I found these scans of the Album de la Radio.
http://diplo.org/album/us/album_us.htm

Only 5 stations in all of PR in 1940, a afaaaaaar cry from the 100+ (AM & FM) there are now.
http://diplo.org/album/us/album1_us.htm

The 2nd. edition show more stations. 23 in fact
http://diplo.org/album/us/album10_us.htm

Most of these stations still exist to this day (WITA is now WQII. WEMB was shut down when El Mundo Broadcasting purchased WKAQ) There are other stations whose calls I don't recognize: whatever happened to those?

Also: Seems that the 1941 NARBA treaty didn't apply to Puerto Rico
(http://members.aol.com/jeff560/1946am.html)

To wit:
580 WIAC (now on 740)
620 WKAQ (now on 580)
990 WPRA (still there)
1230 WKVM (originally from Arecibo, now on 810 San Juan)
1320 WNEL (originally from San Juan, now on 1430 Caguas)
1370 WPAB (now on 550)
1400 WAEL (now on 600)
1420 WPRP (now on 910; 1420 later became WEUC and is now WUKQ)

No mention of WAPA, WKJB or WORA though. (I got WAEL's old freq. from the Diplo.org site.)

When did the Puerto Rican AM stations move to the frequencies they now occupy?

And when did FM broadcasting begin in PR?

Thanks in advance.

NARBA moved all the stations above 790 in 1941. NARBA applied to all the US, Canada, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas as well as Mexico. The only exception at the time was St. Perre et Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland.

FM began with WFID in, I believe, 1957.

WAPA went on in 1947.
WEMB became WNEL in San Juan on 860, when, after the war, duopoly was prohibited.
WITA was on 1400, moving later to 1140; WHOA went on as the first English staiton on that frequency.
In 1950, WIAC was on 580. It moved to 740 when Angel Ramos bought WKAQ. WIBS 740 disappeared.

WORA went on in 1947.
WRIO in Rio Piedras was on 1140, and it moved to 1320 (where it became WUNO) to allow WITA "Radio El Imparcial" to got to 1140 with 500 watts from Cataño.

 

[thathoustonradiogeek]

NARBA moved all the stations above 790 in 1941. NARBA applied to all the US, Canada, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas as well as Mexico. The only exception at the time was St. Perre et Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland.

FM began with WFID in, I believe, 1957.

WEMB became WNEL in San Juan on 860, when, after the war, duopoly was prohibited.
WITA was on 1400, moving later to 1140; WHOA went on as the first English staiton on that frequency.
In 1950, WIAC was on 580. It moved to 740 when Angel Ramos bought WKAQ. WIBS 740 disappeared.

WRIO in Rio Piedras was on 1140, and it moved to 1320 (where it became WUNO) to allow WITA "Radio El Imparcial" to go to 1140 with 500 watts from Cataño.

Thank you.

SO the changes in PR were due to ownership changes rather than Narba.

FM had quite a late start in PR. I thought the first FM was WIPR in the early 50's.
http://members.aol.com/jeff560/1958fm.html has WORA-FM and WPRP-FM, but... no WFID?

I knew there was a WRIO prior to the one in Ponce, and I suspected it was the forerunner to WUNO.
What I didn't know was that WITA was the Imparcial newspaper's radio station. Having been born in 1969, I never got a chance to read it "new".

So, David, I know you're a busy man, but... when are you going to sit ddown and write the definitive book on Radio History of Puerto Rico?

The first one off the publisher is mine!

One more thing, David, and I apologize for asking so many questions, but: being a Ponceño makes me curious about the radio stations in Ponce.

Do you know when WLEO 1170, WEUC 1420 and WZBS 1490 (¡Radio Señorial! How I miss that one!);
WPAB 93.3, WLEO 101.9 and WPRP 105.1 first went on the air? (I knew them as WOQI, WZAR and WIOC respectively).

So far I have:
WPRP 1936
WPAB 1940
WISO 1953

WEUC-FM 1980 or thereabouts. I was 10 or 11 at the time.
WRIO-FM 1985 I do remember this one. Discovered it late one night playing Stevie Wonder's "Part Time Lover". I remember the owner passing away in 1987 or 88.

Again: thanks! ;D