WWBA-1040 moves to more powerful 820 AM

[David Sharp]

The address is 800 8th Ave., SE, so the big numbers on the building have absolutely no relation to the frequency, either past or present.

Actually, the station did broadcast as a daytimer on 800 kHz until around 1985, back in the days when they were a country station, WRFA. From 1972 (its sign on) until some time after becoming WRFA, the station was a religious station, WSST. They moved to 820 in order to broadcast at night, for staying at 800 would interfere with Windsor's CKLW.

Just FYI: the station was known as WSST "for Super Sonic Transport" when it was a flame throwing 250 watts on 800. When they upgraded to 50 kW on 820 the station eventually switched to religion and calls WRFA "Radio For America." There were a whole host of call sign changes in the years that followed.

 

[smedge2006]

Including WRFA (Radio for America), WNZE, WZTM for the Team, WMGG for Mega, and the infamous WYTA, in which an English fellow named Nick Ashton somehow persuaded the station owner to give him control and -- well, someone else will have to tell that story.