WRJE

WRJE
City Dover, Delaware
Broadcast area Dover, Delaware
Branding Sabrosa Radio
Frequency 1600 kHz
Translator(s) 98.3 K252CH (Dover)
105.1 W286BS (Milford)
Format Regional Mexican
Power 5,000 watts daytime
1,000 watts nighttime
Class B
Facility ID 21632
Transmitter coordinates 39°10′11″N 75°33′13″W / 39.16972°N 75.55361°W / 39.16972; -75.55361
Former callsigns WKEN (1957-1997)
WQVL (1997-2000)
WAMS (2000-2002)
WNRK (2002)
WKEN (2002)
WIBF (2002-2004)
WKEN (2004-2005)
WRJE (2005-2007)
WAMS (2007)
WXXY (2007-2009)
WDPZ (2009)
WAMS (2009-2011)
WMHZ (4/2011-9/2011)
WAMS (9/2011-11/2011)
Owner
(K-5 Communications, LLC)
Website sabrosaradio.com

WRJE (1600 AM, is a radio station broadcasting a regional Mexican format. The station is licensed to and serves the Dover, Delaware metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in 1997 under the call sign WKEN. The station is currently owned by K-5 Communications, LLC.[1]

The station is unrelated to WAMS (1380), a leading station in Wilmington from 1950-90.

History

Known as WKEN until it became WQLV on February 23, 1997, the station was renamed WAMS on January 31, 2001. The call sign was briefly changed to WNRK on March 26, 2002, then reverted to WKEN less than two months later. In July, 2002 the call sign was quickly changed to WIBF to match its FM sister station in New Jersey (now WEHA), which it had been simulcasting. On October 13, 2004, the station reverted to its original call sign WKEN for a third time. The original call sign remained in effect for almost a year until September 28, 2005, when the call sign was again changed to WRJE. The WAMS call sign returned to 1600 AM for a second time on January 11, 2007 and remained until July 10, 2007 when the call sign was changed to the call letters WXXY, again to match its sister station in New Jersey (88.7 FM), which it was once again simulcasting.

By June 2008, the FM station in New Jersey dropped the WXXY-FM call sign for WGMX and dropped the simulcast. By 2009, WXXY was still broadcasting a Gospel music format and had added an FM translator on 98.7 FM in Dover with the call sign "W254AT". The station now brands itself "Praise 98.7". The call sign was changed again on May 15, 2009 to WDPZ. On September 7, 2009, the call letters were change again back to the current WAMS, playing an oldies format. Also the frequency change to 98.3 FM on repeater W252CH. They also use the repeater W286BS 105.1 FM Milford, DE. On April 21, 2011, this station changed its call letters from WAMS to WMHZ. On September 29, 2011, WMHZ changed their call letters back to WAMS. On November 6, 2011, WAMS changed format from '80s' music to Gospel music. On November 17, 2011, WAMS changed their call letters to WRJE. On February 10, 2012 WRJE changed their format to regional Mexican, branded as "Sabrosa Radio".

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=21632
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