WJKL (105.7 FM) is a

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licensed to

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. The station serves the island of Puerto Rico. The station is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation and carries network programming from K-LOVE, EMF's main

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music network.

History

WJKL signed on in June 1968 as WKVM-FM. On July 25, 1978, WKVM-FM changed formats to rock as "Alfa Rock", the first FM with the format in Puerto Rico. The station was originally owned by American Colonial Broadcasting (a subsidiary of Pérez Perry Enterprises), which later was sold to Broadcasting & Programming Systems of Puerto Rico. In 1982, the station changed its call sign to WCAD.

Sale to Educational Media Foundation

On July 24, 2017, it was announced that the Educational Media Foundation was buying WCAD and its booster signals for $2.9 million. The station would be EMF's first located in a U.S. territory and would switch to the company's K-Love network. On September 20, 2017, WCAD went off the air due to the threat of

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across the island of Puerto Rico and the sale of the station to EMF was approved by the FCC, awaiting the consummation and would convert to a non-commercial educational radio station. On March 3, 2018 at 12:06 a.m, Alfa Rock ended broadcasting after nearly 40 years as an

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station. The final song on Alfa Rock was " The Perfectionist" by Saga. The station went silent on that day; and the sale of WCAD was completed on July 16, 2018. In 2017, the station's transmitter site had been heavily damaged by Hurricane Maria. The station returned to the air on December 21, 2018, after ten months off the air and the completion of transmitter repairs. After Alfa Rock ended broadcasting on March 3, 2018, some of the Alfa Rock programming and team members DJs Pedro Dávila, Jose Sanz and Fred Virella moved to an online radio station, AZ Rock. The station also airs an album-oriented rock format. On May 14, 2020, WCAD changed its call letters to WJKL.

References

External links

Official website
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