WKDL (AM)

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WKDL

City of license	Warrenton, Virginia
Broadcast area	Warrenton, Virginia Fauquier County
Branding	"1260 WRC"
Slogan	"Intelligent Talk"
Frequency	1250 (kHz)
First air date	November 21, 1957
Format	Talk (WWRC simulcast)
Power	3,000 Watts daytime 125 Watts nighttime
Class	B
Facility ID	53368
Transmitter coordinates	38°43′52.0″N 77°46′42.0″W / 38.731111°N 77.778333°W / 38.731111; -77.778333
Callsign meaning	W "KiDs" L (callsign was previously used by the current WBQH)
Former callsigns	1982-2007: WPR 1957-1982: WEER
Owner	Salem Communications (Salem Media of Virginia, Inc.)
Sister stations	WAVA, WAVA-FM, WWRC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1260wrc.com

WKDL (1250 AM) is a Talk radio station licensed to Warrenton, Virginia and serving the western portion of the Washington, D.C. metro area, particularly Fauquier County.^[1]

The station is owned and operated by Salem Communications, and is a full-time relay of sister station WWRC in Washington, D.C., which operates on the first-adjacent 1260 kHz frequency.

History

Former logo of WPRZ.

On September 30, 2007, WPRZ signed off having been sold to Metro Radio, Inc. on August 15, 2007 for $1.1 Million, according to DCRTV.com. On October 12, 2007, WPRZ became WKDL with a Spanish format. The Christian format of WPRZ continues to broadcast at WPRZ.org.

The WKDL calls were previously used by the current WBQH in the mid 1990s, which at the time was co-owned with WKDV as an affiliate of the children-oriented radio network Radio AAHS.

The station broadcast a Spanish talk format until May 21, 2008 when the station switched to Classic Country. In Mid-November, the country format was abruptly dropped for brokered programming.

From January 31, 2011 until February 2012, WKDL simulcast WTNT (730 AM) in Alexandria on a full-time basis. Its programming lineup consisted mostly of Talk Radio Network offerings, particularly America's Morning News, The Laura Ingraham Show, America's Radio News Network, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Savage Nation, The Rusty Humphries Show and The Phil Hendrie Show.

WKDL was sold to Salem Communications in February 2012 for $10,000 . This purchase was mainly so Salem could increase the daytime power of WWRC to 10,000 watts daytime; WKDL would have its daytime power lowered from 5,000 watts to 3,000 watts, and aimed away from the Washington D.C. metro.

References

↑ "WKDL Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

1260 WRC Online

Query the FCC's AM station database for WKDL

Radio-Locator Information on WKDL

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WKDL

v t e Radio stations in the Washington, D.C. market

By AM frequency	Washington DC Washington DC 630 980 1120 1260 1340 1450 1500 Maryland 540 570 900 950 1030 1050 1160 1540 1560 1580 1600 Northern Virginia 730 780 920 1190 1220 1250 1310 1390 1460 1480

By FM frequency	Washington DC 88.5 89.3 90.1 90.9 93.9 96.3 97.1 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 103.5 107.3 Maryland 88.1 91.9 92.7 94.7 95.5 99.1 99.9 102.3 104.1 107.9 Northern Virginia 87.7 89.9 94.3 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio	162.45 162.55

By callsign	KHB36 WACA WAMU WASH WAVA WAVA-FM WBIG-FM WBQH WCRW WCSP WCTN WDCN-LP WDCT WETA WFAX WFED WFRE WGOP WGTS WHUR-FM WIAD WIHT WILC WJFK WJFK-FM WKDL WKDV WKIK WKIK-FM WKYS WLXE WLZL WMAL WMAL-FM WMET WMMJ WMUC WMZQ-FM WNEW-FM WNG736 WOL WPER WPFW WPGC-FM WPRS-FM WPWC WRQX WSPZ WTEM WTNT WTOP-FM WURA WUST WWDC WWGB WWRC WWWT-FM WWXT WWXX WYCB WZHF

Defunct Stations	WCAP WGMS WTWP WWZZ WHFS (FM)

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v t e News/Talk Radio Stations in the state of Virginia

Stations:	WBRG - Lynchburg WBZS - Shawsville WCBX - Bassett WCHV - Charlottesville WCHV-FM - Charlottesville WCRW - Leesburg WFHG-FM - Abingdon WFIR - Roanoke WFNR - Blacksburg WFVA - Fredericksburg WHAN - Ashland WINA - Charlottesville WINC - Winchester WIQO-FM - Lynchburg WKCI - Waynesboro WKCY - Harrisonburg WKDL - Warrenton¹ WLNI - Lynchburg WLVA - Lynchburg WMAL-FM - Woodbridge WMNA - Gretna WMVA - Martinsville WNIS - Norfolk WNTX - Fredericksburg WPIN - Dublin WREL - Lexington WRVA - Richmond WSVA - Harrisonburg WSVG - Mount Jackson

¹ = WKDL operates as a full-time simulcast of WTNT.

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