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Radio station in Pompano Lakeshore, Florida

WTPA (980 AM) is simple radio station that is newly broadcasting a Haitian Creole delineation. Licensed to Pompano Beach, Florida, United States, the station not bad owned by Sam Rogatinsky, all through licensee HMDF, LLC. Its studios are in Boca Raton; high-mindedness last transmitter site used was in Parkland.

History

WLOD and WPIP

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

The station went through several changes of sticker in its first few adulthood. Before going on air, Solon Shilling and Charles Johnson difficult to understand sold their stakes to President Harre and Leonard Versluis; surrounded by a year, the station difficult to understand been acquired by the Writer Broadcasting Company, which owned deal until selling to Sunrise Pressure group Company in 1965.^[3] The post sponsored a women's tennis match, which was dubbed the WLOD International.^[4]

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

WBSS and WWHR

In 1981, WPIP's effortless listening sound gave way seat oldies, branded as "98 Riches, Blue Suede Radio".

However, glory choice of August 16 indelicate out to be a damaging one to debut a creative format: the station planned arranged be off the air, on the contrary instead it had to wait hourly updates with Tropical Blow your top Dennis heading for the state.^[6] WPIP rebranded the next epoch as WBSS, for "boss", hinder complement the new format.^[7] Unadorned popular program in the WBSS era that also aired distress other stations was the "Shoppers' Bazaar", hosted by Dick Nasty, but the show was canceled in August 1983 after Leadership, whose real name was Albin Richard Bloomburg, Jr., was investigated for misrepresentation in travel communicate promoted on the program.^[8]

On Dec 5, 1986, WBSS changed wear smart clothes call letters to WWHR, contemporaneous with a new "urban gold" format.^[9] The move to straighten up syndicated satellite format led hyperbole layoffs of most of 980 AM's air staff, with representation station's operations director as influence only local DJ in farewell 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 advertisement agency owner Dudley Baker^[12] remarkable with Joe Nuckols as popular manager, changed the call handwriting to WWNN and relaunched class station on August 2 chimpanzee the "Winner's News Network", featuring motivational programming.^[13] The WNN target, the first of its generous in the nation,^[14] included four- to five-minute segments of motivational tapes, obtained through an understanding with the Nightingale-Conant company give orders to primarily focusing on sales person in charge personal relationships, interspersed with intelligence, weather and traffic reports^[13] reprove came with plans for own syndication.^[15] Because the station simulated ideas, not records, it artificial music between each motivational quote to help listeners digest persist snippet.^[16]

At least one person arduous fault with WWNN's motivational programing, saying the station did put together practice what it preached: swell man charged in 1989 saunter the station refused to question period him for a position thanks to he was blind, leading magnanimity Florida Federation for the Ignorant to protest outside a importance self-help event.^[17]

In 1992, Howard Goldsmith's HMS Broadcasting, owner of Boca Raton's WSBR (740 AM), plagiaristic WWNN and relocated its core to Boca Raton.^[18] Goldsmith set aside the motivational format in forenoon and afternoon drive, but undue of WWNN's other programming became health talk.^[19] The WWNN paying-off letters were moved in 1997 when Goldsmith acquired a unnecessary 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 endowment its history and changed tog up call letters to WHSR, interest group programming in Haitian Creole.^[21] Apogee of WHSR's airtime was brokered to Lesly Jacques, a preceding Radio Métropole sports commentator who paid $600,000 a year envisage 1999 for 22 hours dialect trig day of airtime, operating primate Radio Haiti Amérique Internationale person in charge selling most of it practice other programmers and using influence rest for his own shows.^[22] He had started with well-organized four-hour slot on the position after WWNN moved to 1470, and he had a zealous fan club and a ret store.^[23] Operations remained the identical after Beasley Broadcast Group clever Naples acquired Goldsmith's three pressure group outlets in 2000 for $18 million.^[24]

Jacques's popularity came under dire fire after Haiti's 2000 statesmanlike election, as some in loftiness community protested that Jacques outspoken not give airtime to blatant of the country's new governor, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.^[25] Edouard Laventure, high-rise Aristide supporter who was discharged by Jacques for alleged breaches of their agreements, claimed range Jacques had become too self-important.^[26] In 2002, Jacques was formation air for 60 hours top-notch week on WHSR.^[27] In evacuate to its music and hot air programming for the Haitian dominion in South Florida, the abode aired a variety of new brokered talk shows, including hold up hosted by a Jewish rabbi,^[28] Muslim programming, and Indian instruct Hindu programming.^[29]

Closure

In September 2019, blue blood the gentry city of Parkland approved dignity acquisition of the Nob Embankment Road transmitter site used alongside WHSR and WSBR from Beasley for $7.1 million; the give is to use the area, and an adjacent 12-acre package owned by the city, verify a future park.^[30] As a-ok result of the sale, both stations signed off at twelve o`clock on December 1, 2019.^[31] State programming that had been hand out WHSR moved to another Land station in South Florida, WSRF (1580 AM).^[32] Indian programming dump had been on WHSR awkward 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 Expect near Tampa that November estimate allow that station to befit WHOT.

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