WCXS (1480 AM ) is a commercial radio station in Arcadia, Florida with a classic country format. The station previously ran a slate of syndicated talk programing including Doug Stephan, Todd Starnes and Sean Hannity , as well as the shows of financial councilor Dave Ramsey and news/talk personality Tom Sullivan, and hourly news updates from CBS News Radio . Weekends featured a combination of news and do it yourself programming.
6-397: The station changed its call sign from WFLN to WCXS on March 3, 2020. In late May 2020, WCXS changed its format from news/talk to classic country, branded as "Classic Country 104.5". The call sign WFLN was originally assigned in 1949 to a Philadelphia FM radio station located at 95.7 MHz. The station operated primarily a classical music format. In 1956, WFLN (900 kHz) was started as
12-559: A radio station in Florida is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . WURD WURD (900 AM ) is a radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , broadcasting in an urban talk radio format and owned by LEVAS Communications, LP. It is also simulcast on FM translator W241CH on 96.1 MHz. The station began operations around 1958 as WFLN, serving as a daytime-only AM simulcast of classical station WFLN-FM . In
18-513: A simulcast of the FM programming. WFLN was sold in 1985 and became WDVT . WFLN-FM continued operations until 1997 when it was sold, changed format and was renamed WXXM. As of 2020 the Philadelphia 95.7 MHz station is identified by the call sign WBEN-FM . 27°13′43″N 81°51′28″W / 27.22861°N 81.85778°W / 27.22861; -81.85778 This article about
24-444: The early 1980s, the station was sold to veteran Philadelphia broadcaster Frank Ford , who changed the callsign to WDVT and the format to talk. Weekday talk show hosts on WDVT included Peter Tilden, Philadelphia Magazine writer Carol Saline, former Philadelphia Bulletin columnist D.I. Strunk and Ford himself. Weekend specialty shows on the station covered subjects ranging from pro wrestling to gay issues. WDVT made little impact in
30-502: The first property purchased by Alonso, who founded Mega Broadcasting that same year. Eventually, Mega moved the WEMG call sign to 1310 kHz, and sold 900 AM for $ 8.5 million in 2002. The new owner, Walter P. Lomax Jr. , reinstituted the WURD call sign. After a period of apparent indecision, during which the station aired various types of music and CNN Headline News , management settled on
36-407: The ratings, and after a few years, Ford took the station off the air and returned its license to the owners of WFLN, who sold it to Willis Broadcasting, a Virginia-based religious broadcaster, which changed the call letters to WURD. In 1996, Spanish broadcaster Alfredo Alonso bought the station for $ 1.5 million and turned it into a Spanish-language operation as WEMG , "Mega 900." The station became
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