WKND (1480 AM ) is a radio station licensed to the city of Windsor, Connecticut . The transmitter site is in Windsor, while the studios are in Hartford . WKND is owned by Gois Broadcasting of Connecticut, LLC. WKND operates with 500 watts during the day and 14 watts at night. WKND airs a Spanish tropical format, simulcast from WLAT (910 AM) in New Britain . Its programming is also heard on FM translator W248CR (97.5).
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22-650: A Spanish-language format. Gois Broadcasting acquired WLAT and WNEZ in 2008 and WKND in 2009. The three stations were moved into new studios on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford shortly thereafter. WLAT WLAT (910 AM , "Mega 101.7 & 97.5") is a radio station licensed to New Britain, Connecticut , and serving the Hartford market. WLAT airs a Spanish tropical music format. Owned by Gois Broadcasting, WLAT broadcasts from studios located on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford, while its transmitter array
33-443: A few years later, the station adopted a beautiful music format. In 1967, new studios were constructed at the tower site on Birdseye Road. They called the facility "Radio Park". The call sign were changed to WRCQ ("91 Q") on October 23, 1974. After American Radio Systems purchased the station in the late-1980s, the format was changed to rebroadcasting CNN Headline News ; the station became WNEZ on January 5, 1990. On March 26, 1997,
44-469: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WKND WKND signed on in 1961 as WSOR, and featured a country/western and Polish format. It was a 500-watt daytime-only station. After a couple sales of the station in the mid-1960s, WSOR became WEHW in 1966. In 1969, The KND Corporation purchased the station, and changed the callsign to WKND. A format change to R&B soon followed, and WKND became
55-799: Is located behind the Connecticut School of Broadcasting on Birdseye Road in Farmington (also known as "Radio Park"). The station also operates translator W269DE (101.7 FM ) in New Britain; it is also simulcast on WKND (1480 AM and 97.5 FM). This station originally came on the air May 20, 1949, as WHAY. Its original studios were in New Britain; the transmitter was located at the present location on Birdseye Road in Farmington. The call sign were changed in February 1965 to WRCH, and
66-465: The Congo Kingswood railway station (National Rail station code: KND), Surrey, England Niederdollendorf station (DS100, KND), Königswinter, Germany Other uses [ edit ] Codename: Kids Next Door , US TV cartoon series Konda language (Papuan) (ISO 639-3 language code: knd) See also [ edit ] KNDS KNDS (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
77-653: The Power WKND 1230 AM". The 1480 facility then took the WNEZ call letters from 1230 AM and became urban gospel -formatted "Heaven 1480" for a few months, and then became Spanish oldies "La X 1480". WNEZ soon joined its sister stations WLAT and WKND at 330 Main Street in Hartford. Freedom Communications ended up in receivership, and in 2007, WKND and its R&B oldies format returned to 1480, with 1230 going back to WNEZ and
88-635: The first radio station in the state to feature a format targeting the African American community. In 1981, Hartcom Inc. purchased the station. Hartcom was formed by an all-minority group of individuals committed to keeping the station serving the African-American community. Studios eventually moved to the Windsor Parkade Shopping Center. Major transmitter site renovations were undertaken in the mid-1990s, with
99-410: The replacement of the station's three towers and a retuning of the station's directional antenna pattern. In 2004, under an LMA with Freedom Communications of Connecticut, WKND's call sign and format moved to Freedom's WNEZ (1230 AM). With the move to 1230, WKND became a 24-hour station for the first time and got a power boost to 1,000 watts. They ran on-air announcements "The all-new 24 Hour, Twice
110-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title KND . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KND&oldid=1226597063 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
121-488: The station flipped to urban contemporary as "Jamz 910 AM". In 2001, Spanish broadcaster Mega Broadcasting's Alfredo Alonso purchased the station for $ 750,000, and changed the format to Spanish as "Amor 910" on May 5 of that year. At that time, studios were off Route 6 in Farmington. Mega later moved the studios to 330 Main Street in Hartford. On May 25, 2001, Mega swapped the call letters with their other Hartford area station ( 1230 AM ), with 910 becoming WLAT. The station
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