WHOT (1590
kHz
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) is a
commercial
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AM radio station
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that broadcasts a
Haitian Creole
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-language
talk
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Communication
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* Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
* Lecture, an oral presentation intended to inform or instruct
...
and music
radio format
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.
Licensed
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to
Palm River-Clair Mel, Florida
Palm River-Clair Mel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The population was 21,024 at the 2010 census, up from 17,589 at the 2000 census. The census area includes the unincorporated communities of ...
, it serves the
Tampa Bay area
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as ''Radio Nouvelle Lumiere''. The station is owned by Gulf Coast Broadcasting with the license held by Tampa Radio, Inc. The
radio studio
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s and offices are in
St. Petersburg
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.
By day, WHOT is powered at 9,800
watt
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s. But at night, to protect other stations on
1590 AM
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1590 kHz: 1590 AM is a Regional broadcast frequency.
Argentina
* LRI434 in Dolores, Buenos Aires.
* Serodino in Serodino, Santa Fe.
* Stentor in Buenos Aires.
Colombia
* HJIP at Envig ...
, it reduces power to 160 watts. The
transmitter
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is on East Washington Street in
Tampa
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, near
McKay Bay
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. An
FM translator
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, 96.1 W241DH, will
simulcast
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WHOT when it is moved from
Bradenton, Florida
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History
Late 18th and early 19th centuries ...
, into the Tampa
radio market
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.
History
Originally owned by Holiday Isles Broadcasting Company, the station
signed on
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the air as WILZ on . It was originally
licensed
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to
St. Pete Beach
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, with its studios at 7500 Boca Ciega Drive.
Its initial format was
adult standards and
big band
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music, featuring "all time favorites from 1925 to the present."
One of its
disc jockey
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s in the early 1960s was
Elmo Tanner
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, the former singer and whistler with the
Ted Weems Orchestra.
In 1969, Millbeck Broadcasting bought the station, maintaining the adult standards format and adding
New York Mets
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baseball.
The station subsequently changed its format to Top 40 as ''Z16'' and, in 1973, changed to an oldies format as ''Solid Gold 16''.
In 1975, WILZ was bought by Gene Danzey, a former General Manager for
WTMP in
Tampa
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, who retooled the station as WRXB, the region's first black-owned station.
[Tampa Bay Times: "Gene Danzey launched the first local black-owned radio station", June 7, 2012.]
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Danzey sold the station in 1996 to Rolyn Communications, Inc.[http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/altc_list.pl?Facility_id=57478 ] A transfer was requested to Metropolitan Radio Group in 1996, but that transfer was not completed until 1999. In 2000, Gary Acker (owner of Metropolitan Radio Group) died, and control of the station passed to his estate, which was overseen by Mark Acker. In 2007, the station was sold to Walter Kotaba's Polnet Communications.
Past announcers at WRXB included Jim Murray, Rob Simone and Sister Dianne Hughes. WRXB also featured state legislator Wengay Newton (D-St. Petersburg) with a weekly community program, along with Pastor Brian Anderson's ''The Voice of the Village'' and ''Undignified Praise and Worship'', produced by Richard Guess. Other announcers included Ivan Summers and Tony King hosting ''TK's Midday Cafe''.
On August 20, 2009, WRXB had its first major format change in more than 30 years when it switched to 24-hour urban gospel
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programming.[ Gene Danzey died of respiratory failure on May 29, 2012.][
The station went ]off the air
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on November 14, 2017.
Effective September 26, 2019, Polnet Communications sold WRXB and translator W241DH to Sam Rogatinsky's Gulf Coast Broadcasting for $165,000. The station's call sign was simultaneously changed to WTPA. At that time, the newly renamed station began broadcasting Haitian Creole programming as Radio Nouvelle Lumiere, modeled after Rogatinsky's WPBR
WPBR (1340 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Lantana, Florida and serving the West Palm Beach area. The station airs a Haitian Creole talk and contemporary hits radio format. It is owned by Palm Beach Radio Group LLC.
In addi ...
in West Palm Beach
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Etymology
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.
Effective August 7, 2020, the station moved its community of license from St. Pete Beach to Palm River-Clair Mel. On November 1, 2021, the WTPA call sign was moved to the former WHSR in Pompano Beach
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, which Rogatinsky acquired in 2021. AM 1590's new call sign became WHOT.
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Mass media in St. Petersburg, Florida
Radio stations established in 1958
1958 establishments in Florida