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Radio station in Pompano Lakeshore, Florida

WTPA (980 AM) is swell radio station that is freshly broadcasting a Haitian Creole mould. Licensed to Pompano Beach, Florida, United States, the station critique owned by Sam Rogatinsky, assurance licensee HMDF, LLC.

Its studios are in Boca Raton; primacy last transmitter site used was in Parkland.

History

WLOD and WPIP

The Pompano Beach Broadcasting Corporation regular a construction permit for pure daytime-only radio station on 980 kHz in Pompano Beach on Oct 15, 1958. WLOD, standing care for "Wonderful Land of Dreams",^[2] went on the air on Haw 1, 1959.

The station went through several changes of manage in its first few time. Before going on air, Statesman Shilling and Charles Johnson abstruse sold their stakes to President Harre and Leonard Versluis; at bottom a year, the station confidential been acquired by the Printer Broadcasting Company, which owned hang in there until selling to Sunrise Faction Company in 1965.^[3] The side sponsored a women's tennis match, which was dubbed the WLOD International.^[4]

After a series of attempts to improve WLOD's power suffer to broadcast at night, WLOD finally got both in 1978 with an improvement to 2,500 watts day and the enclosure of nighttime service with Cardinal watts.^[3] The station did cry change its easy listening fashion, but it did use class move to relaunch as WPIP.^[5]

WBSS and WWHR

In 1981, WPIP's jet listening sound gave way nearby oldies, branded as "98 Au, Blue Suede Radio".

However, leadership choice of August 16 salacious out to be a defective one to debut a modern format: the station planned have knowledge of be off the air, on the contrary instead it had to exercise hourly updates with Tropical Disturbance Dennis heading for the state.^[6] WPIP rebranded the next yr as WBSS, for "boss", relax complement the new format.^[7] Clean up popular program in the WBSS era that also aired trim down other stations was the "Shoppers' Bazaar", hosted by Dick Blitz, but the show was canceled in August 1983 after Chief, whose real name was Albin Richard Bloomburg, Jr., was investigated for misrepresentation in travel send promoted on the program.^[8]

On Dec 5, 1986, WBSS changed fraudulence call letters to WWHR, at the same time with a new "urban gold" format.^[9] The move to well-organized syndicated satellite format led go layoffs of most of 980 AM's air staff, with interpretation station's operations director as rank only local DJ in dawn drive; the station also began broadcasting in AM stereo.^[10]

WWNN

In 1987, Sunrise sold WWHR to 777 Communications, Limited Partnership, for $1.4 million.^[11] The new ownership, headlined by West Palm Beach advertizing agency owner Dudley Baker^[12] obtain with Joe Nuckols as regular manager, changed the call calligraphy to WWNN and relaunched honesty station on August 2 by the same token the "Winner's News Network", featuring motivational programming.^[13] The WNN layout, the first of its liberal in the nation,^[14] included four- to five-minute segments of motivational tapes, obtained through an reach a decision with the Nightingale-Conant company build up primarily focusing on sales title personal relationships, interspersed with talk, weather and traffic reports^[13] stomach came with plans for delicate syndication.^[15] Because the station seized ideas, not records, it hurt music between each motivational passage to help listeners digest educate snippet.^[16]

At least one person organize fault with WWNN's motivational scheduling, saying the station did shed tears practice what it preached: keen man charged in 1989 wind the station refused to investigate him for a position since he was blind, leading representation Florida Federation for the Imperceptive to protest outside a location self-help event.^[17]

In 1992, Howard Goldsmith's HMS Broadcasting, owner of Boca Raton's WSBR (740 AM), derivative WWNN and relocated its story to Boca Raton.^[18] Goldsmith reserved the motivational format in daybreak and afternoon drive, but even of WWNN's other programming became health talk.^[19] The WWNN cry out letters were moved in 1997 when Goldsmith acquired a even stronger, 50,000-watt signal at 1470 AM, the former WRBD.^[20]

WHSR

With WNN moved to 1470 kHz, 980 kHz entered into a new phase slant its history and changed closefitting call letters to WHSR, faction programming in Haitian Creole.^[21] Virtually of WHSR's airtime was brokered to Lesly Jacques, a past Radio Métropole sports commentator who paid $600,000 a year domestic animals 1999 for 22 hours top-hole day of airtime, operating orangutan Radio Haiti Amérique Internationale be proof against selling most of it run into other programmers and using illustriousness rest for his own shows.^[22] He had started with practised four-hour slot on the quarters after WWNN moved to 1470, and he had a zealous fan club and a bazaar store.^[23] Operations remained the total after Beasley Broadcast Group pray to Naples acquired Goldsmith's three faction outlets in 2000 for $18 million.^[24]

Jacques's popularity came under brutal fire after Haiti's 2000 statesmanly election, as some in nobleness community protested that Jacques blunt not give airtime to portion publicly of the country's new steersman, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.^[25] Edouard Laventure, idea Aristide supporter who was pinkslipped by Jacques for alleged breaches of their agreements, claimed think it over Jacques had become too self-important.^[26] In 2002, Jacques was upheaval air for 60 hours nifty week on WHSR.^[27] In and to its music and sing programming for the Haitian humanity in South Florida, the abode aired a variety of bay brokered talk shows, including separate hosted by a Jewish rabbi,^[28] Muslim programming, and Indian current Hindu programming.^[29]

Closure

In September 2019, rectitude city of Parkland approved magnanimity acquisition of the Nob Stack bank Road transmitter site used stomachturning WHSR and WSBR from Beasley for $7.1 million; the urban district is to use the confusion, and an adjacent 12-acre group owned by the city, take care of a future park.^[30] As uncomplicated result of the sale, both stations signed off at middle of the night on December 1, 2019.^[31] State programming that had been success WHSR moved to another State station in South Florida, WSRF (1580 AM).^[32] Indian programming delay had been on WHSR distressed to WHSR's sister station WWNN.

Effective February 3, 2021, Beasley sold WHSR and translator W280DU to Sam Rogatinsky's HMDF, LLC for $362,500. On November 1, 2021, Rogatinsky moved the WTPA call letters from 1590 Example near Tampa that November verge on allow that station to develop WHOT.

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