WPLO

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WPLO
LABONITA LOGO 175X102.PNG
City Grayson, Georgia
Broadcast area Atlanta metropolitan area
BrandingLa Bonita 610 AM
Slogan Solo Música Bonita... Viejitas Pero Bonitas!
Frequency 610 kHz (analog)
Translator(s) W239AY (100.1 MHz, Atlanta)
First air date1960?
Format Spanish / Mexican Music Programming
Language(s) Spanish
Power 1500 watts daytime
225 watts nighttime
Class D
Transmitter coordinates 33°57′11″N83°58′16″W / 33.952972°N 83.971108°W / 33.952972; -83.971108
Callsign meaning W Schering Plough
Former callsignsWLAW (1960s-1987)
WGNN (1987-1990)
OwnerTeresa Esquivel
Website Official WPLO Website

WPLO ("La Bonita 610 AM") is an Atlanta area AM broadcasting station, licensed to Grayson, Georgia, that broadcasts Spanish language music programming. It transmits at a frequency of 610 kHz with 1,500 Watts of power during the daytime and 225 Watts during nighttime using a non-directional antenna. WPLO is a Class-D AM broadcasting station according to the Federal Communications Commission. The station has applied to the Federal Communications Commission to change its licensed city to Lawrenceville, Georgia, the location of its current transmitting facility and tower.

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History

The radio station is not to be confused with the other AM broadcasting station in the Atlanta radio market which carried the WPLO call signs from 1959 until 1987. The 610 kHz station adopted the WPLO call signs in 1990 when it switched from its previous WGNN call signs. WLAW were the original call signs of this station before switching to WGNN in 1987.

The station was branded as "RadioMex 610 Atlanta" until 2009. Late in 2009, the station changed to the "La Bonita 610 AM" branding.

AM stereo

WPLO is the Atlanta area's last remaining analog AM stereo radio station using the C-QUAM AM Stereo system.

AM stereo is a term given to a series of mutually incompatible techniques for radio broadcasting stereo audio in the AM band in a manner that is compatible with standard AM receivers. There are two main classes of systems: independent sideband (ISB) systems, promoted principally by American broadcast engineer Leonard R. Kahn; and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) multiplexing systems.

C-QUAM is the method of AM stereo broadcasting used in Canada, the United States and most other countries. It was invented in 1977 by Norman Parker, Francis Hilbert, and Yoshio Sakaie, and published in an IEEE journal.


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