W283AN

W283AN (104.5 FM, "104.5 The Beat") is an FM translator station licensed to cover Orlando, Florida. It rebroadcasts an urban contemporary format from the HD2 subchannel of WTKS-FM. The station, which was launched on February 12, 2014,[1] is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. The station launched the day after WJHM shifted from Rhythmic CHR to Top 40/CHR.

WTKS-FM HD2
W283AN
CityAltamonte Springs, Florida
Broadcast areaOrlando, Florida
Branding104.5 The Beat
SloganOrlando's Hip Hop and R&B
Frequency104.5 MHz
(HD Radio via WTKS-FM-HD2)
First air dateApril 2007 (2007-04)
FormatUrban contemporary
ERP221 watts
HAAT153 meters (502 ft)
ClassD
Facility ID149386
Transmitter coordinates28°36′22″N 81°27′25″W
OwneriHeartMedia
(Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stationsWTKS-FM, WFLF, WJRR, WMGF, WRSO, WRUM, WXXL, WYGM
WebcastListen Live
Website1045thebeat.iheart.com

The station first signed on in 2007 as an FM translator for WREH-FM, carrying “ReachFM” programming. Reach Communications sold its translators along with others in the state of Florida, W283AN and W246BO (now W245CL), in 2012 and 2014 to rebroadcast WFLF and WYGM. Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) moved the WFLF simulcast from WTKS-HD2/W283AN to WMGF-HD3/W273CA, which previously had rebroadcast WMGF-HD2 in order to launch an urban contemporary format, branded as “104.5 The Beat”. It launched the day prior to WJHM (now WQMP)’s switch to CHR from rhythmic contemporary, that station first flipped to the format in 2005 briefly to compete with WPYO and in 2012 to compete with WXXL, Orlando’s only CHR outlet at the time.

References
  1. "104.5 The Beat Debuts" from RadioInsight.com (February 12, 2014)
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