WPBR
City of license | Lantana, Florida |
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Broadcast area | West Palm Beach area |
Frequency | 1340 kHz |
Translator(s) | W241AX 96.1 FM Boca Raton, Florida |
Format | Haitian French talk |
Power | 810 watts unlimited |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 50333 |
Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Callsign meaning | W Palm Beach Radio |
Owner | Palm Beach Radio Group LLC |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | Sakpase.FM |
WPBR (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Haitian French talk format. Licensed to Lantana, Florida, USA, the station serves the West Palm Beach area. The station is currently owned by Palm Beach Radio Group LLC.[1]
The 1340 Frequency was first licensed in the 1940's as WWPG ("World's Winter Playground"),
Then later changed to WQXT. WQXT had various MOR formats and in 1970 turned to "chicken rock" under program director Don Kelley.
In '72 / '73 Everett and Valerie Aspinwall bought the radio station from Knight Quality Stations and changed the call letters to WPBR ("Wonderful Palm Beach Radio") Adopting a middle of the road music/talk block programming format the station featured the Aspinwall's doing a New York Style mid day talk format, Initially, Joe Vogel was afternoon drive dj, w/Frank Chester nights and Gene Tognacci weekends / swing. NBC network affiliated, WPBR ran NBC Monitor on the weekends and a locally produced classical music show on the weekends
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References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WPBR
- Radio-Locator Information on WPBR
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WPBR
- Query the FCC's FM station database for W241AX
- Radio-Locator information on W241AX
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for W241AX
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