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WALE
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WALE
City of license Greenville, Rhode Island
Broadcast area Providence, Rhode Island
Branding Amor 990
Frequency 990 kHz
First air date April 12th 1961
Format Spanish Adult Contemporary
Power 50,000 watts (day)
5,000 watts (night)
Class B
Facility ID 49128
Transmitter Coordinates [show location on an interactive map] 41°57′18″N, 71°35′39″W
Callsign meaning Whaling City (calls began on 1400-Fall River, Ma.)
Former callsigns WLKW, WEAN[1]
Owner Cumbre Communications Corp.
Sister stations None
Website http://www.amor990.com/
WALE (990 AM, "Amor 990") is a radio station licensed to the community of Greenville, Rhode Island, and serving the Providence, Rhode Island, area. The station is owned by Cumbre Communications Corp. It airs a Spanish Adult Contemporary format.[2]
Contents
[hide]
* 1 WLKW
* 2 As WALE
* 3 References
* 4 External links
[edit] WLKW
WLKW began official broadcasting on April 12, 1961 as Rhode Island's only 50kW radio station during daylight hours only. This fact was noted in the calls as "LKW" really reads as "50 (L in Roman Numerals) KiloWatts" (sic). For most of its life the station's format was easy listening, which is how the calls are associated today (now the calls exist on 1450-West Warwick).
[edit] As WALE
The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since July 24, 1989.[1]. When Francis Battaglia's North American Broadcasting Company bought WEAN after selling their facility on 1400 in Fall River, Massachusetts it tried to make a go at straight-ahead talk against better-established 630/WPRO & 920/WHJJ. As the 1990s wore on the station added more & more brokered programming until the station aired nothing but brokered programming. The station was the last radio home of the late Steve "White" Wight, a controversial white-supremacist talk host who was fired at WHJJ in 1984. After White was fired from WALE for staging his own on-air assassination, the station moved toward brokered fringe shortwave-style programming, such as the neo-Nazi American Dissident Voices. The station survived on this forrnat over phone lines which were sub-voice grade, especially when transmitted over a clear-channel FCC restricted pattern mostly aimed away from Providence and toward the waters of Cape Cod.
WALE was sold at a bankruptcy auction in 2003 to Cumbre Communications where it reemerged as "Supermax 990", a Spanish-language outlet going up against 1110/WPMZ & 1220/WRIB. The station was an affiliate of the Red Sox Beisbol Network in 2005, but it is unknown if it will air games in 2008. WALE went silent on December 29th 2006 & returned to the airwaves in late 2007. Today the station airs a Spanish-language adult contemporary format as "Amor 990" (Love 990), once a week per year, in order to keep its license until the station's future is resolved.
WALE's transmitter site in North Smithfield is a center of controversy; it became contaminated with PCBs in the mid 1990s due to years of neglect.
It is not known if the station responds to QSL reports.
WALE
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
WALE
City of license Greenville, Rhode Island
Broadcast area Providence, Rhode Island
Branding Amor 990
Frequency 990 kHz
First air date April 12th 1961
Format Spanish Adult Contemporary
Power 50,000 watts (day)
5,000 watts (night)
Class B
Facility ID 49128
Transmitter Coordinates [show location on an interactive map] 41°57′18″N, 71°35′39″W
Callsign meaning Whaling City (calls began on 1400-Fall River, Ma.)
Former callsigns WLKW, WEAN[1]
Owner Cumbre Communications Corp.
Sister stations None
Website http://www.amor990.com/
WALE (990 AM, "Amor 990") is a radio station licensed to the community of Greenville, Rhode Island, and serving the Providence, Rhode Island, area. The station is owned by Cumbre Communications Corp. It airs a Spanish Adult Contemporary format.[2]
Contents
[hide]
* 1 WLKW
* 2 As WALE
* 3 References
* 4 External links
[edit] WLKW
WLKW began official broadcasting on April 12, 1961 as Rhode Island's only 50kW radio station during daylight hours only. This fact was noted in the calls as "LKW" really reads as "50 (L in Roman Numerals) KiloWatts" (sic). For most of its life the station's format was easy listening, which is how the calls are associated today (now the calls exist on 1450-West Warwick).
[edit] As WALE
The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since July 24, 1989.[1]. When Francis Battaglia's North American Broadcasting Company bought WEAN after selling their facility on 1400 in Fall River, Massachusetts it tried to make a go at straight-ahead talk against better-established 630/WPRO & 920/WHJJ. As the 1990s wore on the station added more & more brokered programming until the station aired nothing but brokered programming. The station was the last radio home of the late Steve "White" Wight, a controversial white-supremacist talk host who was fired at WHJJ in 1984. After White was fired from WALE for staging his own on-air assassination, the station moved toward brokered fringe shortwave-style programming, such as the neo-Nazi American Dissident Voices. The station survived on this forrnat over phone lines which were sub-voice grade, especially when transmitted over a clear-channel FCC restricted pattern mostly aimed away from Providence and toward the waters of Cape Cod.
WALE was sold at a bankruptcy auction in 2003 to Cumbre Communications where it reemerged as "Supermax 990", a Spanish-language outlet going up against 1110/WPMZ & 1220/WRIB. The station was an affiliate of the Red Sox Beisbol Network in 2005, but it is unknown if it will air games in 2008. WALE went silent on December 29th 2006 & returned to the airwaves in late 2007. Today the station airs a Spanish-language adult contemporary format as "Amor 990" (Love 990), once a week per year, in order to keep its license until the station's future is resolved.
WALE's transmitter site in North Smithfield is a center of controversy; it became contaminated with PCBs in the mid 1990s due to years of neglect.
It is not known if the station responds to QSL reports.
