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WKAQ (AM)
WKAQ (580 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Currently owned by Hemisphere Media Group, the station airs a Spanish language talk radio format. Its programming is repeated on WUKQ, which broadcasts on 1420 kHz in Ponce, and WYEL which broadcasts on 600 kHz in Mayagüez. The station was the first radio station to broadcast in Puerto Rico. According to Ernesto Vigoreaux, in the early days of music in Puerto Rico, the musicians would record music ''at'' the WKAQ radio station. WKAQ is the Puerto Rico primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System. WKAQ was owned for many years by Angel Ramos, owner of the '' El Mundo'' newspaper, and eventual namesake for WKAQ-TV, branded as Telemundo. The ''El Mundo'' operated until 1986 when labor strikes and acts of terrorism ended its operation. On May 9, 2022, Hemisphere Media Group, the owners of WAPA-TV announced they will purchase WKAQ-AM, WKAQ-FM, WUKQ-AM, WUKQ-FM and WYEL from Univisio ...
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("City of Puerto Rico", Spanish for ''rich port city''). Puerto Rico's capital is the third oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496, and Panama City, in Panama, founded in 1521, and is the oldest European-established city under United States sovereignty. Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas. Today, Sa ...
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Radio Stations In San Juan, Puerto Rico
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves, and received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver. Radio is very widely used in modern technology, in radio communication, radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like aircraft, ships, spacecraft an ...
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Univision Radio Network Stations
Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes telenovelas and other drama series, sports, sitcoms, reality and variety series, news programming, and imported Spanish-language feature films. Univision is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and has its major studios, production facilities, and business operations based in Doral, Florida (near Miami). Univision is available on pay television providers throughout most of the United States, with local stations in over 60 markets with large Latin American communities. Most of these stations air full local newscasts and other local programming in addition to network shows; in major markets such as Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City, the local newscasts carried by the network's owned-and-operated stations are equally com ...
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Radio Stations Established In 1922
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves, and received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver. Radio is very widely used in modern technology, in radio communication, radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like aircraft, ships, spacecraft and ...
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Carlos Díaz Olivo
Carlos Eduardo Díaz Olivo is a Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican attorney, professor of law, former politician, and political analyst. Early years and education Carlos Díaz Olivo was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He completed a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting from the University of Puerto Rico. After certifying himself as a Certified Public Accountant, Díaz Olivo entered the University of Puerto Rico School of Law where he graduated with the highest grade point average, GPA of his class. After becoming an attorney, Díaz Olivo worked as a law clerk to then-President of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, José Trías Monge. After this, the University of Puerto Rico granted Díaz Olivo a scholarship to continue his studies at Harvard University, Harvard, where he obtained a Master's degree in law. Upon his return to Puerto Rico, he became a member of the faculty of the University of Puerto Rico teaching Business Ad ...
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Ángel Rosa
Ángel R. Rosa Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican politician and an academic. Rosa served in the 25th Senate of Puerto Rico. He is a tenured professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. Politically, Rosa is affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party. Early life and education Born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Ángel R. Rosa Rodríguez graduated with honors from the Eugenio María de Hostos High School, the largest high school in town, in 1988. In 1992, he received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. He went on to obtain his Master's and Doctorate's degrees from the Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ... in 1998. His 1998 thesis, titled ''Bargaining for privilege: The alliance between Puerto R ...
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Rubén Sánchez (journalist)
Rubén Sánchez is the main talk news personality at Univisión Radio (WKAQ-AM) in San Juan, Puerto Rico as well as has served as anchorman for several TV daily news interview programs. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 3, 1963, Sánchez is a graduate of the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. For years, he was deputy director of the news department at the Notiuno radio network in Puerto Rico, rising to the post of news director. Subsequently hired by Univisión, he currently anchors the radio network's morning drive time newscast from 6 to 8 am, has conducted a two-hour highly rated daily news interview program and co-anchored a political analysis program with the late political analyst Juan Manuel García Passalacqua. At WAPA-TV, he anchored ''A Calzón Quitao'', a daily mid-afternoon news interview program and a political news edition on prime time Friday evenings. Both programs were carried by WAPA's nationwide superstation, WAPA-América, seen by Puerto Ricans and other ...
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Jay Fonseca
Josué Fonseca Aponte (better known as Jay Fonseca) is a Puerto Rican journalist, radio host, lawyer, and political analyst. Fonseca appeared in ''Día a Día'' and ''Telenoticias'' on Telemundo Puerto Rico for eleven years until he announced his departure from the channel on 16 July 2021. Fonseca holds a bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (2006) and a juris doctor ('' cum laude'') from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law The University of Puerto Rico School of Law is a law school in Puerto Rico. It is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and the only law school in the University of Puerto Rico System. It ... (2011). From 2018 till his departure from Telemundo in 2021, he was the host of his own investigative reporting program, "Jay y sus rayos x," which will continue to be broadcast under "Rayos X". Family Fonseca is the son of Víctor Fonseca and T ...
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Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language Terrestrial television, terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Television and Streaming#NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with programming syndicated worldwide to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages. The network was founded in 1984 as NetSpan before being renamed Telemundo in 1987 after the branding used on WKAQ-TV, its owned-and-operated station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1997, Liberty Media and Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired controlling interest in Telemundo. NBC then purchased Telemundo in 2001. The channel broadcasts programs and original content aimed at Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latin American audiences in the United States and worldwide, consisting of telenovelas, sports, reality television, news programming and films—either imported or Span ...
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WKAQ-TV
WKAQ-TV (channel 2) is a television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, airing programming from the Telemundo and NBC networks. It is Owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal. WKAQ-TV's studios are located on Puerto Rico Highway 23, Franklin Roosevelt Avenue in San Juan near Hiram Bithorn Stadium, and its transmitter is located on Cerro la Santa in Cayey, Puerto Rico, Cayey near the List of Puerto Rico state forests, Bosque Estatal de Carite mountain reserve. WTIN-TV (channel 2.11) in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Ponce and WNJX-TV (channel 2.12) in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, branded on-air as Telemundo West, operate as full-time Broadcast relay station#Satellite stations, satellites of WKAQ-TV, which rebroadcast the station's programming to the southern and western regions of Puerto Rico under an affiliation agreement with Hemisphere Media Group (owner of parent station WAPA-TV, channel 4). WKAQ-TV formerly operated WO ...
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