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WRHC 1550

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Hey Guys:

Trying to figure this one out. Would anybody know was WRHC ever an "all Spanish Talk" station?

or has it been a variety of "Spanish Talk", "Spanish Religous" and "Spanish Nostalgia Music" since 1973?

Thanks

T.J.
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

Trying to figure this one out. Would anybody know was WRHC ever an "all Spanish Talk" station?

or has it been a variety of "Spanish Talk", "Spanish Religous" and "Spanish Nostalgia Music" since 1973?
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From about 1978 to the late 80's WRHC was pure Spanish language talk and was, for much of that time, the #1 Spanish language talk station in the market under director Salvador Lew.
 
WRHC went on the air sometime in the late 60.s or early 70.s as WRIZ and had a MOR format
 
DDV49 said:
WRHC went on the air sometime in the late 60.s or early 70.s as WRIZ and had a MOR format
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"WRIZ, Rise to the Right Side of your Dial", Vic Damone.
For a while, they were R&B, involving WAME (Miami->Charlotte) & WWOK Charlotte->Miami).
 
I have BY listings of WRHC in the early days with those calls (1973-ish), and, apparently, format was a mix of Spanish and Religion, with 2 studios, 1 listed near Little Havana for Spanish programs, and another in the Gables listed for English Religious programs....

After MOR, they were Country, which was the format that moved to WWOK/1260 full-time. Sudbrink bought WRIZ and made it Religious, then came WRHC.
 
Hey Guys:

Thanks for the responses.

Would anybody know what year or month WRIZ went from MOR to country? This is one blank in my research I can't seem to fill.

I know they went to R&B in June of 1969. Which came from 1260 WAME. And the country format went from 1550 to 1260 as WWOK. I can't remember the exact date because I don't have my notes in front of me.

T.J.
 
It's funny that the station is known as "Blue Network" yet its callsign could be interpreted as W Radio Habana Cuba :D
 
Eduardo said:
It's funny that the station is known as "Blue Network" yet its callsign could be interpreted as W Radio Habana Cuba :D
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The name comes directly from a pre-Castro era La Habana station, "R-H-C Cadena Azul". One was not said without the other.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
CMQ is on the list hence why WLTO became WCMQ. Herb Dolgoff knew what he was doing!
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Yep, Circuito CMQ was the biggest, most successful operation in Cuba. They also put on the air the first TV operation in Latin America. Among the innovations of CMQ principal Goar Mestre was the creation of the world's first all-news format, Radio Reloj... in 1948!
 
Not many stations en La Habana!
Where was the English language station in Havana, CMCA on 830?

Were the 800's in Santiago and Pinar del Rio both daytimers?
In these parts, god owned 800 at night.

I would hate to tell people I was from a town called Moron!
 
Maybe it's actually called Morón, just like a city near me :D
By the way, I think the format of this station would be better described as Brokered Programming, since they seem to play lots of infomercials.
 
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