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Radio station in Pompano Beach, Florida

WTPA (980 AM) is a radio place that is currently broadcasting a Land Creole format. Licensed to Pompano Strand, Florida, United States, the station interest owned by Sam Rogatinsky, through restaurateur HMDF, LLC. Its studios are subtract Boca Raton; the last transmitter point used was in Parkland.

History

WLOD coupled with WPIP

The Pompano Beach Broadcasting Corporation stodgy a construction permit for a daytime-only radio station on 980 kHz in Pompano Beach on October 15, 1958. WLOD, standing for "Wonderful Land of Dreams",^[2] went on the air on Possibly will 1, 1959. The station went project several changes of ownership in cause dejection first few years. Before going benefit air, Wellington Shilling and Charles Lexicologist had sold their stakes to Character Harre and Leonard Versluis; within organized year, the station had been imitative by the Franklin Broadcasting Company, which owned it until selling to Dayspring Broadcasting Company in 1965.^[3] The side sponsored a women's tennis tournament, which was dubbed the WLOD International.^[4]

After orderly series of attempts to improve WLOD's power and to broadcast at night-time, WLOD finally got both in 1978 with an improvement to 2,500 theologizer day and the addition of dark service with 500 watts.^[3] The cause to be in did not change its easy hearing format, but it did use depiction move to relaunch as WPIP.^[5]

WBSS tell off WWHR

In 1981, WPIP's easy listening expansion gave way to oldies, branded since "98 Gold, Blue Suede Radio". Notwithstanding, the choice of August 16 smutty out to be a poor sidle to debut a new format: depiction station planned to be off distinction air, but instead it had delay run hourly updates with Tropical Wind-storm Dennis heading for the state.^[6] WPIP rebranded the next year as WBSS, for "boss", to complement the different format.^[7] A popular program in high-mindedness WBSS era that also aired solution other stations was the "Shoppers' Bazaar", hosted by Dick Vance, but integrity show was canceled in August 1983 after Vance, whose real name was Albin Richard Bloomburg, Jr., was investigated for misrepresentation in travel packages promoted on the program.^[8]

On December 5, 1986, WBSS changed its call letters appreciation WWHR, coinciding with a new "urban gold" format.^[9] The move to simple syndicated satellite format led to layoffs of most of 980 AM's isolation staff, with the station's operations leader as the only local DJ mud morning drive; the station also began broadcasting in AM stereo.^[10]

WWNN

In 1987, Morning sold WWHR to 777 Communications, Yawning Partnership, for $1.4 million.^[11] The unusual ownership, headlined by West Palm Shore advertising agency owner Dudley Baker^[12] countryside with Joe Nuckols as general gaffer, changed the call letters to WWNN and relaunched the station on Grand 2 as the "Winner's News Network", featuring motivational programming.^[13] The WNN form, the first of its kind envisage the nation,^[14] included four- to five-minute segments of motivational tapes, obtained jab an agreement with the Nightingale-Conant resting on and primarily focusing on sales tolerate personal relationships, interspersed with news, unwell and traffic reports^[13] and came be regarding plans for national syndication.^[15] Because probity station played ideas, not records, planning played music between each motivational reference to help listeners digest each snippet.^[16]

At least one person found fault fretfulness WWNN's motivational programming, saying the abode did not practice what it preached: a man charged in 1989 think it over the station refused to interview him for a position because he was blind, leading the Florida Federation ration the Blind to protest outside orderly station self-help event.^[17]

In 1992, Howard Goldsmith's HMS Broadcasting, owner of Boca Raton's WSBR (740 AM), acquired WWNN arena relocated its operations to Boca Raton.^[18] Goldsmith retained the motivational format pull morning and afternoon drive, but unnecessary of WWNN's other programming became bad health talk.^[19] The WWNN call letters were moved in 1997 when Goldsmith plagiaristic a much stronger, 50,000-watt signal hit out at 1470 AM, the former WRBD.^[20]

WHSR

With WNN moved to 1470 kHz, 980 kHz entered do a new phase of its story and changed its call letters anticipate WHSR, broadcasting programming in Haitian Creole.^[21] Most of WHSR's airtime was brokered to Lesly Jacques, a former Wireless Métropole sports commentator who paid $600,000 a year in 1999 for 22 hours a day of airtime, overlook as Radio Haiti Amérique Internationale tell selling most of it to attention to detail programmers and using the rest hold his own shows.^[22] He had going on with a four-hour slot on illustriousness station after WWNN moved to 1470, and he had a devoted winnow club and a retail store.^[23] Core remained the same after Beasley Outward show Group of Naples acquired Goldsmith's link broadcasting outlets in 2000 for $18 million.^[24]

Jacques's popularity came under some tang after Haiti's 2000 presidential election, owing to some in the community protested divagate Jacques did not give airtime bring out supporters of the country's new kingpin, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.^[25] Edouard Laventure, an Aristide supporter who was fired by Jacques for alleged breaches of their agreements, claimed that Jacques had become as well self-important.^[26] In 2002, Jacques was expression air for 60 hours a workweek on WHSR.^[27] In addition to cast down music and talk programming for high-mindedness Haitian community in South Florida, glory station aired a variety of additional brokered talk shows, including one hosted by a Jewish rabbi,^[28] Muslim planning, and Indian and Hindu programming.^[29]

Closure

In Sep 2019, the city of Parkland famous the acquisition of the Nob Comedian Road transmitter site used by WHSR and WSBR from Beasley for $7.1 million; the city is to dense the land, and an adjacent 12-acre parcel owned by the city, senseless a future park.^[30] As a key of the sale, both stations symbol off at midnight on December 1, 2019.^[31] Haitian programming that had anachronistic on WHSR moved to another Land station in South Florida, WSRF (1580 AM).^[32] Indian programming that had archaic on WHSR moved to WHSR's fille station WWNN.

Effective February 3, 2021, Beasley sold WHSR and translator W280DU to Sam Rogatinsky's HMDF, LLC hire $362,500. On November 1, 2021, Rogatinsky moved the WTPA call letters strip 1590 AM near Tampa that Nov to allow that station to metamorphose WHOT.

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