WURN (AM)

WURN
City Miami, Florida
Branding Actualidad 1040 AM
Frequency 1040 kHz
First air date 1973
Format Spanish talk radio
Power 50,000 watts day
5,000 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 4341
Transmitter coordinates 25°50′34″N 80°25′12″W / 25.84278°N 80.42000°W / 25.84278; -80.42000
Former callsigns WKAO (1970s-1986)
WYFX (1986-1996)
WJNA (1996-1997)
WJNO (1997-2000)
WBZT (2000)
WJNA (2000-2003)
WLVJ (2003-2016)
Owner Actualidad Media Group
(Actualidad 1040 AM Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations WLVJ, WURN-FM, WMYM
Website Actualidad Miami

WURN (1040 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish talk radio format. Licensed to Miami, Florida, United States, the station's broadcast license is currently held by Actualidad 1040AM Licensee, LLC.[1]

On April 26, 2016 WURN was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to change the community of license from Boynton Beach, Florida to Miami, increase day power to 50,000 watts, increase night power to 5,000 watts and move the transmitter site to the WMYM site.[2] WURN was issued a license for this change effective February 9, 2018.

History

Boynton Beach's first AM radio station was WZZZ, which broadcast with a Top 40 format on 1510 kHz and went on the air April 10, 1962.[3] WZZZ went off the air in September, 1965; it was eventually replaced by a newly licensed station on 1510 using the call sign WKAO. In the 1980s WKAO moved to 1040 kHz.[4] WKAO changed its call letters to WYFX on May 3, 1986. Subsequently the station changed its call sign to WJNA on November 1, 1996, to WJNO on September 22, 1997, to WBZT on March 6, 2000, back to WJNA on December 20, 2000, and to WLVJ on January 7, 2003.[5]

On January 24, 2012, the FCC approved the transfer of the WLVJ broadcast license from James-Crystal Radio's subsidiary, JCE Licenses LLC, to a company known as Actualidad 1040AM Licensee, LLC.[6]

The station changed its call sign to the current WURN on December 6, 2016.

In June 1988, the station found its 10,000 watt night-time signal being subsumed by the signal from 1040 AM Cuban-based "Radio Taino," which may have been increasing its signal strength to as much as 250,000 watts. WYFX was not alone: WHBO 1040 on the West Coast of Florida also experienced signal inference from the Taino.[7]

Former station logo

References

  1. ↑ "WURN Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ Palm Beach Post, April 11, 1962, page 15
  4. ↑ Palm Beach Post, March 19, 1966, page 33
  5. ↑ "WURN Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  6. ↑ Application Search Details fcc.gov. Accessed February 27, 2015
  7. ↑ http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1988-06-21/news/8802050924_1_cuban-broadcasts-station


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