WKFE

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WKFE
Frequency 1550 kHz
BrandingRadio Café 1550
Programming
Format Spanish News Talk Information (daytime)
Spanish Religious (nighttime)
Ownership
Owner
  • Media Power Group
  • (Media Power Group, Inc.)
OperatorFaro de Santidad, Inc. (under time brokerage agreement)
WSKN, WDEP, WLEY
History
First air date
November 3, 1961;63 years ago (1961-11-03)
Call sign meaning
"Café"
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 52942
Class B
Power 10,250 watts
Transmitter coordinates
18°51′24″N66°52′52″W / 18.85667°N 66.88111°W / 18.85667; -66.88111
Translator(s) 93.5 W228EF (Mayagüez)
Links
Public license information
Website www.radioisla.tv
www.farodesantidad.com

WKFE (1550 AM, Radio Café 1550) is a radio station licensed to serve Yauco, Puerto Rico. The station is owned by Media Power Group, Inc. and operated through time brokerage agreement by Faro de Santidad, Inc. [2] It airs a Spanish language News Talk Information format during the day and Religious programming during the evening hours. [3] The station shares with translator station W228EF 93.5 FM in Mayagüez.

Contents

The station was assigned the WKFE call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. [4]

Ownership

In July 1999, Uno Radio of Ponce Inc., Caguas, P.R. (Jesus M. Soto, chairman) reached an agreement to purchase five radio stations in Puerto Rico from Ponce Broadcasting Corp. (Jenaro G. Scarano Sr., Julio C. Braum, Luis F. Sala, Catalina Scarano and Sala Business Corp., shareholders) for a reported sale price of $10.75 million. [5]

In June 2003, Media Power Group Inc. (Eduardo Rivero Albino, chairman, Gilberto Rivera Gutierrez, Jose E. Fernandez and Joe Pagan, shareholders) reached an agreement to purchase four AM radio stations in Puerto Rico, including WKFE, from Uno Radio Group. (Jesus M. Soto, owner) for a reported $6.8 million. [6]

Translator stations

Broadcast translator for WKFE
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W)FCC info
W228EF93.5 FM Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 203036250 LMS

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References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WKFE". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. Jacobs, George (2007). National Radio: Puerto Rico (US Associated). Billboard Books. pp. 305–306. ISBN   978-0-8230-5997-3.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01.
  4. "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  5. "Changing Hands". Broadcasting & Cable. 1999-07-01.[ dead link ]
  6. "Changing Hands". Broadcasting & Cable. 2003-06-09.