WMYM

WMYM
City of license Miami, Florida
Broadcast area Miami metropolitan area
Branding Radio Disney Miami
Frequency 990 kHz (also on HD Radio)
Format Children's
Power 5,000 watts
Class B
Facility ID 12833
Transmitter coordinates 25°50′34.00″N 80°25′12.00″W / 25.8427778°N 80.4200000°W
Callsign meaning Disney Character MickeY Mouse
Former callsigns WFAB
Affiliations Radio Disney
Owner The Walt Disney Company
(Sale to Radio Actualidad pending)
(Radio Disney Group, LLC)
Website www.radiodisney.com
Radio Disney AM 990 logo used from 2008 to 2010.

WMYM is a Radio Disney station serving the Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida market. It also reaches and covers Disney Cruise Line's private island, Castaway Cay. WMYM broadcasts on 990 kHz.

Despite identifying as "Miami-Ft. Lauderdale", WMYM's directional pattern causes the signal to be inaudible in Broward County.

History

WFAB, "La Fabulosa" broadcast a Spanish language format on 990 throughout the nineteen fifties and sixties but lost their license and was off the air for many years before the Disney corporation was able to obtain permission to operate on this frequency. They used a six-tower inline array. WMYM uses a six-tower parallelogram. The pattern had to be tightened because of an upgrade on a Pompano Beach station on 980.

Sale

On August 13, 2014, Disney put WMYM and twenty-two other Radio Disney stations up for sale, in order to focus more on digital distribution of the Radio Disney network.[1][2]

On February 12, 2015, Radio Actualidad (owner of the Spanish News/Talk trimulcast WURN, WLVJ and WURN-FM) announced that it would acquire WMYM.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Lafayette, Jon (August 13, 2014). "Exclusive: Radio Disney Moving Off Air to Digital". Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Radio Disney to Sell the Majority of Its Stations". Billboard. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Actualidad Buying WMYM 990-AM/Miami - Radio Ink Magazine
  4. ↑ Station Sales Week Of 2/13 - Radio Insight

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