WDEL-FM

WDEL-FM
City of license Canton, New Jersey
Broadcast area Delaware, South Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania
Branding WDEL 101.7
Slogan Delaware's News Now On FM
Frequency 101.7 MHz
First air date January 15, 1972 (as WNNN)
Format News/Talk
ERP 3,300 watts
HAAT 91 meters
Class A
Facility ID 51136
Transmitter coordinates 39°25′51.00″N 75°20′13.00″W / 39.4308333°N 75.3369444°W / 39.4308333; -75.3369444
Callsign meaning DELaware (from parent station WDEL)
Former callsigns WNNN (1972–1997)
WJKS (1997–2015)
Affiliations CBS Radio, Associated Press
Owner Delmarva Broadcasting Company
Sister stations WDEL, WFAI, WSTW
Webcast Listen Live
Website wdel.com

WDEL-FM (101.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Canton, New Jersey and owned by Delmarva Broadcasting Company. Studios and offices are located at 2727 Shipley Road in Wilmington, Delaware.

The station signed on as religious WNNN on January 15, 1972. By March 1989 the station had adopted the slogan of Win 101.7.

QC Communications purchased the station on July 1, 1997. Over the course of transitioning from religion to Urban AC, it briefly adopted a MOR format before becoming Kiss 101.7 WJKS on October 1, 1997.[1] QC announced the sale to Delmarva Broadcasting in December 2014 with a LMA beginning January 1, 2015.[2] On April 1, 2015 at 10:02PM, Delmarva flipped WJKS to a simulcast of News/Talk WDEL.[3][4][5] A call sign change to WDEL-FM took effect the next day.[6]

The sale to Delmarva Broadcasting was consummated on June 30, 2015, at a price of $3.25 million for WDEL-FM and sister station WFAI.

References

  1. ↑ "New Jersey FM Radio History" from radiohistory.com
  2. ↑ "FCC Application"
  3. ↑ "Wake Up With WDEL Now At 101.7FM" from wdel.com (April 2, 2015)
  4. ↑ "WDEL To Get Simulcast" from Radio World (March 31, 2015)
  5. ↑ "WJKS to Become WDEL Simulcast" from Radio Insight (March 26, 2015)
  6. ↑ "Call Sign History". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved May 4, 2015.

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