WPRD (1440
AM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting a
Spanish Variety
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format. Licensed to
Winter Park, Florida
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Winter Park was fo ...
, United States, WPRD is owned and operated by J & V Communications, Inc.
WPRD serves as the main flagship station for J & V Communications, Inc. and is headquartered in
Orlando, Florida
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, in the same building previously occupied by former stations WABR and WBJW (the latter now
WOMX-FM
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).
Some programming on WPRD is repeated on WOTS 1220 kHz in
Kissimmee
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, WSDO 1400 kHz in
Sanford,
WTJV
WTJV (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to DeLand, Florida and serving the Daytona Beach area. WTJV is owned by J & V Communications, Inc.
WTJV simulcasts WSBB 1230 AM in New Smyrna Beach. The two stations broadcast an Adult Standards rad ...
1490 kHz in
DeLand, and
WUNA
WUNA (1480 AM) is a radio station licensed to Ocoee, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area. The station is currently owned by Jesús and Virgen Torrado, through licensee J & V Communications Inc. and airs programming in Haitian Creole ...
1480 kHz in
Ocoee. WPRD also shares programming with Puerto Rican station
WCMN.
History
Following the demise of WAJL, WPRD started broadcasting on the same 1440 frequency as "Pride 1440", playing music from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Kids' Choice Broadcasting Network, later
Imagination Station Network, started broadcasting in late March 1990 on WPRD as its originating station. During this time the station used the moniker "The Imagination Station".
Station owner, Metroplex Communications, invested in the network.
In September, the station sponsored a concert for the one year anniversary of non-profit Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women featuring
Peter Yarrow
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, a network vice president and investor.
On February 27, 1991, the Imagination Station Network stopped broadcasting on the station. At 2 PM that day, the station changed over to all-news with the
CNN Headline News
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service. About 100 calls were received by the station regarding the discontinuation of the network on the station.
For a brief period in 1993, the call letters were changed to WWZN before reverting to WPRD.
Since the mid-1990s, WPRD has been owned by J & V Communications, Inc. and started broadcasting in a Spanish-language variety format under "La Fantastica 1440". The name was later changed to "La Voz 1440" in late 2014, as it remains known to this day.
WPRD-AM 1440 Winter Park
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References
External links
PRD
Winter Park, Florida
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