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WDAE (620 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida and serving the Tampa Bay area.It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a sports radio format.WDAE is one of the oldest radio stations in Florida still broadcasting today, going on the air in 1922.
The Tampa Bay Rays Radio Network is a radio network in the southeastern United States that broadcasts baseball games and related programming for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. Additionally, there is a 2-station Spanish language network. Since 2009, WDAE/620 in St. Petersburg, Florida, has served as the flagship station for the ...
WHNZ is the successor of two radio stations, co-owned WDAE, one of Florida's oldest radio stations, going on the air May 15, 1922; 102 years ago (). WDAE spent most of its history at AM 1250 before moving to AM 620. The station was co-owned with the Tampa Times daily newspaper. [6] WHNZ also has history on AM 570 in Pinellas Park.
In 1998 Cox swapped its 620 AM signal for the 97.1 signal owned by the Concord Broadcasting Group, whose easy-listening station, WLVU-FM, moved from 106.3 to 97.1 shortly before the swap. After the move to FM, WSUN-FM adopted an oldies format as "Oldies 97.1", while Concord changed 620's calls to WSAA, and became a simulcast of Bay News 9 .
In 1941, WFLA moved to 940 kHz, which allowed WSUN to begin operating with unlimited hours on 620 kHz. [ 9 ] WSUN's transmitter site moved to straddling the west end of the Gandy Causeway with 501 ft (153 m) towers on concrete pilings in the Tampa Bay salt water in the early 1950s at 5 kW.
On December 17, 2007, WMTX-HD2 dropped the soft AC format to introduce the LGBTQ-oriented "Pride Radio" service, featuring dance and rhythmic hits. On January 28, 2013, WMTX-HD2 changed its format to classic rock, branded as "Thunder Tampa Bay", and began to be relayed on FM translators W233AV 94.5 (Gulfport) and W290BJ 105.9 (West Tampa). [12]
WAMA (1550 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format.Licensed to Tampa, Florida, United States, it serves the Tampa Bay area. [2] The station is currently owned by George and Esperanza Arroyo, through licensee Q Broadcasting Corporation.
WTMP (1150 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Egypt Lake, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay area, airing a Spanish-language regional Mexican radio format. The station is owned by Neal Ardman of NIA Broadcasting, Inc. Its studios are on Howard Avenue in West Tampa. By day, WTMP is powered at 10,000 watts.