WSKN (1320 AM) is a

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. WSKN serves

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and is owned by Media Power Group. The station serves as the flagship station of the Radio Isla Network and carries a Spanish-language news and

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format. The callsign derives from their previous identification, Super Kadena Noticiosa, which was created on May 11, 1992, under the ownership of Radio Kadena Informativa Inc. The station was on frequency 630 AM.

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Notiuno bought them in 2000 and switched frequencies (Notiuno was on 1320 AM).

History

Early years

The station's news director is

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, a Ponce-born radio journalist with over 30 years of broadcast experience. Upon being hired by WSKN, he transferred his highly rated Saturday-morning news programming from WIAC, the Radio Puerto Rico network. The programming included a weekly political debate panel with former Senate President

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, Senate PDP Minority Leader

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and

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(MINH) leader, Dr.

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, and the "Luis Penchi Entrevista" 90-minute news interview program. During the week, Penchi attracted many of the islands' top political analysts to its programming, including attorneys

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and Ignacio Rivera, as well as businessman-turned-political-figure Adolfo Krans, the former First Spouse during his former wife

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's gubernatorial administration. As a result, the station has been able to attract many of Puerto Rico's political 'cognoscenti' to its audience.

Recent news

On December 1, 2009, Penchi resigned from the position of news director, and news reporter Julio Rivera Saniel was named to replace him. Rivera Saniel had previously worked at WKAQ 580, and still works on WAPA TV's weekends newscasts (''Noticentro Sábado y Noticentro Domingo''). On November 1, 2013 Jonathan Lebrón Ayala was named news director after Rivera Saniel resigned to the position he previously held from 2009. Lebrón Ayala is a young news reporter that was the multimedia editor of ''Metro'' in Puerto Rico, a daily free newspaper owned by Metro International. Also has worked with WKAQ, a Univision Radio Puerto Rico station and with ''El Nuevo Dia'' a newspaper owned by the Ferré Rangel family. Rivera Saniel would stay in WSKN with two new shows and still works on WAPA-TV newscasts.

Ownership

In June 2003, Media Power Group Inc. (Eduardo Rivero Albino, chairman, Gilberto Rivera Gutierrez, Jose E. Fernandez and Joe Pagan, shareholders) reached an agreement to purchase four AM radio stations in Puerto Rico, including WSKN, from Arso Radio Corp. (Jesus M. Soto, owner) for a reported $6.8 million.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for WSKNRadio Isla 1320 WSKN official website
News and talk radio stations in Puerto Rico SKN Radio stations established in 1949 {{PuertoRico-radio-station-stub