Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


Jump to content
WikipediaThe Free Encyclopedia
Search

WDAS (AM)

Coordinates:39°59′53″N75°12′43″W / 39.99806°N 75.21194°W /39.99806; -75.21194
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected fromW273DO)
Sports radio station in Philadelphia

WDAS
Broadcast areaGreater Philadelphia (Delaware Valley)
Frequency1480kHz
BrandingFox Sports The Gambler
Programming
LanguageEnglish
FormatSports radio
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
July 1922
Former call signs
  • WIAD (1922–1929)
  • WELK (1929–1934)
  • WDAS (1934–2007)
  • WUBA (2007–2011)
Former frequencies
  • 833 kHz (1922–1923)
  • 1180 kHz (1923–1925)
  • 1200 kHz (1925–1927)
  • 1280 kHz (1927)
  • 1360 kHz (1927)
  • 1040 kHz (1927–1928)
  • 1370 kHz (1928–1941)
  • 1400 kHz (1941–1956)
Call sign meaning
Dannenbaum & Steppacher, former owners (1934–1950)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID71315
ClassB
Power
  • 5,000 watts (day)
  • 1,000 watts (night)
Translator(s)See § Translators
Repeater(s)104.5 WRFF-HD2 (Philadelphia)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live (viaiHeartRadio)
Websitefoxphlgambler.iheart.com

WDAS (1480 kHz) is anAM radio station inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania. Owned and operated byiHeartMedia, the station airs asports radio format as an affiliate ofFox Sports Radio. WDAS's studios and offices are located inBala Cynwyd.

WDAS'stransmitter is located nearFairmount Park, off West Ford Road.[2] By day, the station’s power is 5,000 watts; to avoid interfering with other stations on1480 AM, it reduces power to 1,000 watts at night and uses adirectional antenna at all times. WDAS programming is also heard on anFM translator station, 102.5 W273DO in Philadelphia.

History

[edit]

Early years

[edit]

The station was first licensed to the Ocean City Yacht Club as WIAD inOcean City, New Jersey,[3] andsigned on the air in July 1922. The station was originally assigned to the "entertainment wavelength" of 360 meters (833 kHz), and call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs. In 1923, ownership was transferred to Howard R. Miller,[4] who moved the station to Philadelphia.[5]

Following the establishment of theFederal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927.[6] In addition, they were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard.[7] On May 25, 1928, the FRC issuedGeneral Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including WIAD, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it."[8] However, the station successfully convinced the commission that it should remain licensed.

On November 11, 1928, the FRC made a major reallocation of station transmitting frequencies, as part of a reorganization resulting from its implementation ofGeneral Order 40. WIAD was assigned to 1370 kHz.

In 1929, the station's studio and transmitter were moved to theElks Club at Broad and Vine Streets and thecall sign changed to WELK.[9]

In 1934, Miller sold the station, and the new owners, silk manufacturers Dannenbaum & Steppacher, adopted the WDAS call sign, with the letters spelling out the company's initials. A.W. Dannenbaum served as the station president. The studios were located at 1211 Chestnut Street.[10]

WDAS broadcast ethnic programming in languages such as Italian,Yiddish andPolish. In 1941, WDAS moved to 1400 AM, then about 15 years later to its current frequency of 1480 AM.

In 1950, candy manufacturerMax Leon purchased the station for $495,000 from William Goldman, a theater chain owner. The programming at the time consisted ofbig band music,ethnic and cultural shows. Leon, the founder and conductor of the original PhillyPops Orchestra, added an all-night classical music show.

Switch to R&B

[edit]

In 1951, Leon promoted his son-in-law, Bob Klein, to general manager. Klein saw an opportunity in the marketplace and adopted programming geared toward the local African-American community. The music consisted ofrhythm & blues andjazz. WDAS added a number of young personalities, includingGeorgie Woods, Jimmy Bishop, Carl Helm, Butterball Tamburro,Jocko Henderson andHy Lit. The station also added black-oriented public affairs and news programs, and provided coverage of the unfoldingcivil rights movement, with journalists Joe Rainey and Jim Klash, along with Walt Sanders, Carl Stubbs, Bill Adams, Dave Colman, Jimmy Carter and reporterEd Bradley (later ofCBS's60 Minutes).

The station employed many black professionals, in on-air, office and management positions. The station also took on an activist role. WDAS was commended by many in the industry and in the civil rights movement. In 1959, Leon and Klein signed on an FM sister station,WDAS-FM. By the early 1970s, the FM station would launch a groundbreaking and influentialurban adult contemporary format still heard today.

WDAS (AM) retained its R&B format throughout the 1960s and 70s, while addinggospel music with Louise Williams on Sunday mornings. Many people involved in the civil rights movement, includingMartin Luther King Jr. andMalcolm X, visited and were heard on the station. Following hisreturn from Mecca, Malcolm X visited the station on December 29, 1964. He was interviewed by Rainey under heavy armed police guard due to assassination threats.[11]

Klein filed a class action lawsuit against theArbitron rating service in 1972, on behalf of all black radio stations, protesting that black radio listenership was undercounted. Arbitron settled the suit after four days of testimony and amended its methodologies and policies to make a better effort to survey African-American listeners and other minorities.

Ownership changes

[edit]

Leon sold the station in November 1979, to the minority-owned Unity Broadcasting Network. In the 1980s, WDAS added theNational Black Network (NBN) for hourly newscasts, and tried a news format in the mornings, anchored locally by Karen Warrington, E. Steven Collins andWynne Alexander) and afternoons via the NBN feed. With music listening shifting to FM, WDAS wanted to compete withall-news radioKYW. This was unsuccessful, and the station returned with a mix of gospel, R&B and talk shows. In 1988, as more listeners were choosing FM urban contemporary stations, WDAS switched to a full-time gospel music and religious format.

Beasley Broadcasting purchased WDAS and WDAS-FM in 1994. Two years later, the stations were sold toEvergreen Media, which soon merged with Chancellor Broadcasting, which later became AMFM Inc. In August 2000, after a series of mergers, the two stations would become properties ofClear Channel Communications. Clear Channel changed its name toiHeartMedia after its successfuliHeartRadio internet platform in 2014.

Format changes

[edit]

On May 16, 2007, WDAS flipped totropical music asRumba 1480, a format and branding displaced byWRFF's flip tomodern rock asRadio 104.5. The station's former WUBA calls were also adopted by WDAS.[12] WUBA served as the Spanish languageflagship radio station of thePhiladelphia Phillies.

On November 22, 2011, the station began redirecting existing listeners toWHAT, after Clear Channel announced that theRumba format would be replaced by a newurban oldies format the next day asWDAS, The Soul of Philadelphia. The station soft launched with R&BChristmas music for the holiday season, before officially launching its new format on December 27.[13][14]

Smooth Jazz JJZ

[edit]
Logo asSmooth Jazz JJZ.

On June 10, 2013, at 12 pm, the station flipped tosmooth jazz asSmooth Jazz JJZ, reviving a heritage branding that had historically been used by the currentWISX from 1993 to 2006, and from November 17, 2006 to September 5, 2008, by the currentWPEN-FM. Despite the use of the JJZ brand, the station retained the WDAS calls.[15]

From September 19–27, 2015, the station temporarily branded asPope Info Radio — a "pop-up station" coveringPope Francis'sfirst visit to the United States, which concluded in Philadelphia. The station interspersed its smooth jazz programming with live coverage of five masses and speeches throughout the visit, and rolling news, traffic, and weather updates relevant to the events.[16][17][18]

Breakthrough Radio

[edit]
Logo asBreakthrough Radio.

On September 11, 2017, at 12 pm, the station rebranded asBreakthrough Radio. The format was a partnership between iHeartMedia and theChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHoP), featuring a format of uptempo pop hits interspersed with health-related features andpublic service announcements produced by the hospital. TheJJZ format moved toWISX-HD2.[19][20][21]

Fox Sports The Gambler

[edit]

On August 23, 2019, it was announced that WDAS would flip to asports talk format as part of theFox Sports Radio network the following Monday, asFox Sports The Gambler. The new format launched on August 26, after the station temporarilystunting with a loop of theNFL on Fox theme music over the weekend. Translator W281BI inTrenton was not included in the flip because of its proximity to existing Fox Sports affiliateWNJE.[22]

The station carries local programs geared towardssports betting (taking advantage of the repeal of theProfessional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which had effectively banned sports betting outside of Nevada);[22] it launched withThe Daily Tickets—an afternoon drive program hosted by formerWPEN personality Sean Brace. He describedThe Gambler as the "future" of sports radio, arguing that the betting-oriented positioning of the station would help distinguish itself from WPEN and the market-leadingWIP-FM, and promised that the station would feature "no callers" and "just guests that will bring the best information on the games we love to watch".[22] WDAS otherwise carries the full Fox Sports Radio national lineup, including its own betting-related showStraight Outta Vegas.[23]

More local programs were added to its schedule later on; in October 2019, the station added a new evening program hosted by Eytan Shander,What Are The Odds?—which airs on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings.[24] In June 2020, the station added a weeklyesports program,Cheesesteaks and Controllers, hosted by Jason Fanelli.[25] In July 2020, WDAS became the flagship radio station of thePhiladelphia Union ofMajor League Soccer.[26]

HD Radio

[edit]

WDAS formerly broadcast inHDIBOC format. The HD transmission was turned off when WDAS flipped to urban oldies at the end of 2011. As the launch of "The Gambler", the station initiallysimulcast on WDAS-FM105.3-HD2.[27][28]On August 31, 2020, the simulcast shifted toWRFF-HD2.

Translators

[edit]

WDAS (AM) programming is broadcast on the followingtranslators:

Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)HAATClassTransmitter coordinatesFCC info
W273DO102.5 FMPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania13866399114 m (374 ft)D39°56′58.60″N75°10′14.40″W / 39.9496111°N 75.1706667°W /39.9496111; -75.1706667 (W273DO)LMS

References

[edit]
  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for WDAS".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^"WDAS-AM 1480 kHz - Philadelphia, PA".radio-locator.com.
  3. ^"New Stations",Radio Service Bulletin, August 1, 1922, page 3.
  4. ^"Alterations and corrections",Radio Service Bulletin, November 1, 1923, page 8.
  5. ^"Alterations and corrections",Radio Service Bulletin, March 1, 1924, page 8.
  6. ^"List of broadcasting stations issued temporary permits",Radio Service Bulletin, April 30, 1927, pages 6-14.
  7. ^"Extension of Broadcasting Station Licenses",Radio Service Bulletin, December 31, 1927, page 7.
  8. ^"Appendix F (2): Letter to and list of stations included in General Order No. 32, issued May 25, 1928",Second Annual Report of the Federal Radio Commission for the Year Ended June 30, 1928, Together With Supplemental Report for the Period From July 1, 1928 to September 30, 1928, pages 146-149.
  9. ^"FCC History cards for WDAS".
  10. ^Broadcasting Yearbook 1945 page 146
  11. ^Russ, Valerie (February 21, 2012). "When Malcom Came to Town".Philadelphia Daily News. pp. 6–8.
  12. ^"Rumba 104.5/Philly Becomes 'Radio 104.5'".All Access. RetrievedJune 3, 2020.
  13. ^"WDAS-AM Returns In Philadelphia".RadioInsight. November 22, 2011. RetrievedJune 3, 2020.
  14. ^"WDAS-A Returns To The Soul Of Philadelphia".All Access. RetrievedJune 3, 2020.
  15. ^"Smooth Jazz Returns To Philadelphia".RadioInsight. June 9, 2013. RetrievedAugust 30, 2019.
  16. ^"Philly Gets Pop-Up Pope Station".Insideradio.com. RetrievedAugust 30, 2019.
  17. ^"iHeart To Launch Philadelphia Papal Pop-Up Format".RadioInsight. September 13, 2015. RetrievedAugust 30, 2019.
  18. ^"Papal Visit Prompts WDAS-A (Smooth Jazz 'JJZ)/Philadelphia To Air 'Pope Info Radio' 9/19-27".All Access. RetrievedAugust 30, 2019.
  19. ^"iHeartMedia & Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia Partner For Breakthrough Radio 1480".RadioInsight. September 11, 2017. RetrievedAugust 23, 2019.
  20. ^Takiff, Jonathan."CHOP-backed Breakthrough Radio is a new station".The Philadelphia Inquirer. RetrievedAugust 30, 2019.
  21. ^"Ryan Seacrest launches the Voice at CHOP". 6ABC.Archived from the original on September 21, 2011. RetrievedSeptember 26, 2020.
  22. ^abc"Philly's 'Gambler' Declares Itself The 'Future Of Sports Talk Radio.'".Insideradio.com. RetrievedDecember 31, 2019.
  23. ^"iHeartMedia Launches Fox Sports The Gambler In Philadelphia".RadioInsight. August 23, 2019. RetrievedAugust 23, 2019.
  24. ^"Eytan Shander Adds Show On WDAS-A (Fox Sports The Gambler)/Philadelphia".All Access. RetrievedDecember 31, 2019.
  25. ^"Cheesesteaks and Controllers".iHeartRadio. February 19, 2021. RetrievedFebruary 19, 2021.
  26. ^"MLS Names Philly Broadcast Partner".Radio Ink. July 9, 2020. RetrievedJuly 12, 2020.
  27. ^"History of WDAS provided by radio-history.com". Archived fromthe original on November 2, 2007. RetrievedJanuary 22, 2008.
  28. ^http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=6 HD Radio Guide for Philadelphia

External links

[edit]
AM
FM
LPFM
Translators
NOAA
Digital
Call signs
Online
Defunct
Sports radio stations in the Commonwealth ofPennsylvania
Fox Sports Radio stations in the United States
ByCallsign
By City
Satellite
Radio
  • XM (Ch. 169)
Website
Fox Sports Radio Website
News/talk/sports networks
Bloomberg Radio
ESPN Radio
Fox Sports Radio
NPR
SportsMap
Music brands
Bob FM
Froggy (country only)
Hank FM
Jack FM
KISS-FM
MOViN
Nash FM (country only)
Religious networks
Air 1
K-LOVE
Corporate officers
Board of directors
AM radio stations
FM radio stations
Radio networks
Miscellaneous
International
National

39°59′53″N75°12′43″W / 39.99806°N 75.21194°W /39.99806; -75.21194

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WDAS_(AM)&oldid=1276669902"
Categories:
Hidden categories:

[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2025 Movatter.jp