WDEL (AM)
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| City | Wilmington, Delaware |
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| Branding | WDEL 101.7 |
| Slogan | Your source for news and information in Wilmington |
| Frequency | 1150 kHz |
| First air date | July 22, 1922 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 16458 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°48′54″N 75°31′47″W / 39.81500°N 75.52972°W |
| Affiliations | CBS Radio News, Associated Press, Westwood One News |
| Owner | Delmarva Broadcasting Company |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wdel.com |
WDEL (1150 AM) is a news/talk radio station in Wilmington, Delaware. WDEL first signed on in 1922 and is one of the first 100 broadcast radio stations licensed in the US. WDEL is a class B (regional) station, currently operating at 5,000 watts.
For much of its history, WDEL was an NBC affiliate. Prior to 1942, WDEL was co-owned with WILM with WDEL taking programs primarily from NBC's Red Network and WILM taking programs mostly from NBC's Blue Network.
With the demise of old time network radio in the 1950s, WDEL adopted a full-service format combining news, sports and middle of the road music. Among its personalities were disc jockeys Dick Graham, Bill Horleman and Arnold Zenker, sports director Bill Pheiffer and news reporters Manning Kimmel [2], Joe Mosbrook [3], Burke Hully, Pat Ciarrocchi[4] and top-rated local talk host Craig Butcher.
In the mid-1980s, WDEL was the first Wilmington radio station to provide traffic reports. WDEL's "TrafficWatch on the 9's" remains on the air today. WDEL employs three TrafficWatch reporters - most notably Robin Bryson. Two of the reporters travel in vans and report from the roads.
In the mid-1990s, WDEL moved to a news/talk format broadcasting local news and a local call-in show in the morning, plus various nationally syndicated programs including Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch Albom and Sean Hannity. In 2006, WDEL adopted a schedule of mostly local-live news and talk.
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