e-dawg said:Since Puerto Rico is part of the United States (Commonwealth). Does San Juan have an English radio station besides AM 1060 WCBG and AM 1190 WBMJ? Also, is there any NPR stations in Puerto Rico?
A grandfathered superpower class B station which covers much of the island.Gregg said:...WIPR-FM...
ai4i said:A grandfathered superpower class B station which covers much of the island.Gregg said:...WIPR-FM...
WINZ, Miami, has a null in the direction toward WIPR(AM)
I was on a US Navy ship, floating around PR/VI in 1969-71. At that time, WBMJ 1190 was a fantastic sounding English language Top 40 station, that in its top-of-hour ID touted being owned by Bob Hope. Later in the 70s I visited PR a few times, and was impressed by WHOA 870. English language HOA was what we used to call a MoR (middle of the road) station, and was very listenable... seems like they had CBS Radio news to boot. I can't remember the time line, but I vaguely recall later on hearing WRAI 1520 taking a stab at English language Top 40. All of these attempts at English disappeared; wonder if any of them made any impact.
Puerto Rico is a dual signal market, East & West simulcast frequencies, with central interior mountain ranges.
FM stations playing English content, with Spanish talent & spots are:
Magic 97.3 WOYE 99.5 WIDI Generation X
Alpha Rock 105.7 WCAD CHR-Rock
La Mega 106.9 WMEG 95.1 WEGM Party Station English/Spanish CHR
KQ105 104.7 WKAQ 98.7 WUKQ Spanish/English CHR
Radio Joe 106.1 WVIS Spanish/English CHR
Puerto Rico is a dual signal market, East & West simulcast frequencies, with central interior mountain ranges.
WVIS is a rimshot to San Juan, and very indie in its programming.
WVIS 106.1 Radio Joe's tower is a move-in to Isla de Culebra which is 30 miles West to Puerto Rico & its studio in Luquillo PR,
& 20 miles East to English Saint Thomas US Virgin Islands. Its licensed to Isla de Vieques, which is 13 miles south of Isla de Culebra. It needs Isla de Culebra to penetrate Fajardo PR & Charlotte Amalie USVI. To far out to put a solid listenable signal to the huge San Juan metro. Spots are in Spanish. Indie is a good name for the format, CHR/Dance/HAC/Alt/Spanish. Owner is V.I Stereo Communications.