Broadcast area | Providence metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 1220 kHz |
Branding | La Mega 94.9 (translator frequency) |
Programming | |
Format | Spanish Tropical |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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Operator | Radio Sharon Foundation |
History | |
First air date | 1947 |
Former call signs | WRIB (1947–2006) [1] |
Call sign meaning | We Shine The Light |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 9183 |
Class | D |
Power | 1,000 watts (day) 166 watts (night) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°49′15″N71°23′7″W / 41.82083°N 71.38528°W |
Translator(s) | 93.7 W229AN (Providence) 94.9 W235CN (Providence) |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | www |
WSTL (1220 AM, "La Mega 94.9") is a radio station licensed to serve Providence, Rhode Island. The station broadcasts a Spanish Tropical format programmed by Radio Sharon Foundation. Its programming is also heard on translator stations in Providence, W229AN (93.7 FM) and W235CN (94.9 FM).
Known as WRIB from 1947-July 7, 2006, the station changed callsigns to WSTL on July 7, 2006. [1]
The station was started as a 250-watt daytimer, WRIB with studios at the old Narragansett Hotel. [2]
WRIB increased its daytime power to the current 1 kilowatt. It was still a daytime-only station at this point.
For many years, WRIB had aired mostly brokered programming, serving as an outlet for primarily ethnic broadcasters. Faith Christian Center, an evangelical megachurch in nearby Seekonk, Massachusetts, bought WRIB in 2005. While the station's time brokers had expected to be forced to find new homes for their programming, Faith Christian took WRIB off the air at 12:30 on July 7, 2006, with no advance warning, angering many of WRIB's former time brokers. The church only gave the time brokers a few hours to get their equipment out of the studios or face charges for trespassing. [3] [4] Some shows continue on other stations (e.g.: the Armenian Radio Hour is now on WARA) but others disappeared.
On the morning of Friday, June 23, 2017, the station reported to be going off the air soon; they then went silent. [5] [6] [7] [8] On November 29, 2017 WSTL returned to the air with Spanish tropical, branded as "Mega 94.9" (simulcast on FM translator W235CN 94.9 FM Providence). [9]
Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | Class | Transmitter coordinates | FCC info |
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W229AN | 93.7 FM | Providence, Rhode Island | 156667 | 250 (V) 0 (H) | D | 41°49′14″N71°23′1″W / 41.82056°N 71.38361°W | LMS |
W235CN | 94.9 FM | Providence, Rhode Island | 41191 | 250 | D | 41°49′39.6″N71°22′8.8″W / 41.827667°N 71.369111°W | LMS |
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