WADO

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WADO
Broadcast area	New York, New York
Branding	1280 WADO
Slogan	Noticias, Deportes Y Mas
First air date	1941 (as WOV)
Frequency	1280 (kHz)
Format	Spanish News and Talk
ERP	50,000 watts
Class	A
Owner	Univision
Website	univision.com

WADO is a radio station on 1280 AM. WADO serves New York City and is owned by Univision. The station carries a Spanish language News and Talk format.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Early programming 1.2 Italian programming 1.3 Talk radio programming 1.4 Musical programming 1.5 Sports programming 2 Religious and English programming 3 Acquisitions 4 Current WADO lineup 4.1 Monday-Friday 4.2 Saturdays 4.3 Sundays 5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Early programming

This station was lauched as WGL on January 30, 1927, and was owned by the International Broadcasting Corporation. WGL president Colonel Lewis Landes stated on the inaugural broadcast, "The International Broadcasting Corporation's aim is to adhere to truth, to be free of partisanship, religious or political."

WGL was the first station to protest the frequency allocations of the Federal Radio Commission in May of 1927. WGL was authorized to move to 1170 AM, but wanted to go to 720, occupied by WOR. When WOR was awarded the 710 frequency, both stations went to court, with WOR eventually winning the case. Finally in June 1927, WGL moved to 1020 AM and shared time with Paterson station, WODA.

In August of 1927, studio manager Charles Isaacson announced one of the city's first attempts at local news coverage. WGL was organizing listeners to volunteer as radio reporters and call the station with breaking news stories.

On September 16, 1928, WGL changed calls to WOV and was sold to Sicilian-born importer John Iraci. The WGL call sign was then picked up by a Fort Wayne station, which uses them to this very day.

[edit] Italian programming

WOV's initial programming was aimed at a general audience, but by the mid 1930s, it strengthed its ethnic ties and expanded its Italian-language programming to fill the daytime hours. WOV soon became the dominant Italian voice in the Northeast through its affiliation with share-time station WBIL and Iraci's WPEN in Philadelphia.

The station was owned by WOV Broadcasting until 1959, when it was sold to Bartel Broadcasters, at which time the station was renamed WADO. During the day, WADO broadcast R&B music. At night, they ran Italian programming. By 1962, some Spanish programming was run on weekends. By 1963, the only English programming found on WADO was in Sunday religious broadcasts.

[edit] Talk radio programming

In 1964, WADO began broadcasting completely in Spanish from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Italian from 8 p.m. to Midnight. Overnight, Asian programming was run. By 1970, Spanish had replaced the Asian format.

[edit] Musical programming

In terms of music, the station played a blend of Spanish MOR and Spanish Oldies. They evolved to a Spanish Adult contemporary and Oldies format by the mid 70's. They dropped Italian programming in 1971.

[edit] Sports programming

WADO currently broadcasts all games of the New York Jets, and certain games for the New York Mets and New York Knicks.

[edit] Religious and English programming

This radio station was originally an English radio station but by 1969 this radio station aquirred so much non English programming that by 1969 the only English language programming was Sunday religious programming

[edit] Acquisitions

The station was sold to Command Broadcasting in 1979. In 1986, Heftel bought the station, and over the next three years, moved to a Spanish language adult contemporary and talk format. By the early 1990s, WADO was a Spanish news and talk station.

In March of 1996 they bought WPAT and put a Spanish MOR format there, which would later grow to cover additional languages such as Korean. In 1997, Heftel restructured into Hispanic Broadcasters. They sold WPAT to Multicultural, and acquired WNWK from Multicultural. The brokered shows from WNWK went to WPAT and WCAA went to a Spanish Tropical format. WADO remained News and Talk.

In 2002, Hispanic Broadcasting was sold to Univision, making WADO and WCAA Univision-owned and operated stations.

Of the four full time Spanish stations that battled for listeners during the 1980s (WKDM 1380, WSKQ 620, WJIT 1480 being the other three), only WADO remains.

[edit] Current WADO lineup

[edit] Monday-Friday

• 1. WADO 1280 Informando (5-9AM)
• 2. Salud en Cuerpo y Alma (9-10AM)
• 3. Cara a Cara (10-11AM)
• 4. Dra. Maribel Santa Cruz (11AM-12PM)
• 5. Tu Dinero con Julie Stav (12-1PM)
• 6. Dra. Isabel (1-4PM)
• 7. Salud Para Todos con el Dr. José Pérez-Díaz (4-5PM)
• 8. El Palo de la Tarde con Coco y Gisela (5-7PM)
• 9. Locura por el Fútbol (7-8PM)
• 10. Locura Deportiva (8-9PM)
• 11. Deportes (9-11PM)
• 12. Tiempo Para la Vida con la Dra. Pestano (4-5AM)

[edit] Saturdays

• 1. Con Sazon de Este a Oeste (7-8AM)
• 2. Salud en Cuerpo y Alma (8-9AM)
• 3. Milenio Tiene Tu Casa (9-9:30AM)
• 4. El Garage de Auto Zone (9:30-11AM)
• 5. El Consultorio de la Dra. Aliza (11AM-12PM)
• 6. Tu Voz en Washington (12-1PM)
• 7. Hollywood al Aire (1-1:30PM)
• 8. Recuerdos 1280 con Hector Campos (1:30-2PM, 4-5PM, 6:30-11PM)
• 9. La Tremenda Corte (2-3PM)
• 10. Tiempo Para la Vida con la Dra. Pestano (3-4PM)
• 11. La Voz del Centro con Ángel Collado Schwarz (5-6PM)
• 12. Financiado Tu Casa (6-6:30PM)
• 13. Su Medico, la Medicina y Usted con Dr. Katz (11AM-12PM)

[edit] Sundays

• 1. El Hit Parade de América con Javier Romero (12-2AM)
• 2. Su Medico, la Medicina y Usted con Dr. Katz (5-8AM, 12-1PM & 11PM-12AM)
• 3. La Hora de Católica con Papa Lorenzo Ato (8-9AM)
• 4. Dra. Maribel Santa Cruz (9-11AM)
• 5. La Ley y Usted con Raul Meruelo (11AM-12PM)
• 6. La Gía de Inmigrante (3-4PM)
• 7. Recuerdos 1280 con Hector Campos (4-11PM)

[edit] External links

• WADO (Univison.com UniClave:WADO)