WFNO
| City | Norco, Louisiana |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area |
New Orleans, Louisiana Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Branding | La Fabulosa 830am |
| Frequency | 830 kHz |
| Format | Spanish Latin American |
| Audience share | 0.8 (Wi'08, R&R) |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 750 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 56559 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°3′0.00″N 90°22′41.00″W / 30.0500000°N 90.3780556°W |
| Callsign meaning | Former branding, La Caliente 830am, La Raza 830 and La Fabulosa 830 (up to 2011) |
| Former callsigns | WADU (1985-1996) |
| Affiliations | Tropical 1540AM-105.7FM |
| Owner | Ernesto Schweikert, III (Crocodile Broadcasting Corporation, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KGLA, KDDK |
As of May 2015, WFNO, formerly known as "La Caliente 830am," was acquired from Sunburst Media by Crocodile Broadcasting, owners of KGLA La Tropical 1540AM-105.7FM, and rebranded it with its original name "La Fabulosa 830". It is a Spanish speaking formatted radio station serving the New Orleans, Louisiana area. The station is now owned by Crocodile Broadcasting, of Louisiana, and broadcasts at 830 kHz with 5000 watts of daytime and 750 watts of nighttime power from Norco, Louisiana.
On February 22, 1985 the station signed on as WADU with an Adult Contemporary format targeting the western suburbs of New Orleans. It became a Spanish Contemporary outlet with the WFNO call letters on March 25, 1996.
For much of WFNO’s existence under the moniker “La Fabulosa 830,” programming was very general and centered on Regional Mexican and Tropical Music formats along with a variety of drive time programs that included local and international news updates. Other programming included sports talk programs airing in the afternoons, religious programming, public affairs programs, and radio news magazines that included news and reporting from CNN en Español.
Near WFNO’s largest format change on July 1, 2011 to a strictly Regional Mexican station under the moniker “La Raza 830am” along with the consequent changes to sister station KXMG to a Spanish Contemporary Hit Radio formatted station, WFNO played a music format more closely aligned to Spanish Contemporary Hit Radio format with announcements in Spanish between songs that included “...the best is yet to come,” possibly alluding to the soon-to-come KXMG “La Mega 107.5” on the FM dial. Also during this transitional time, a short-lived Rock en Español formatted program aired on weekday afternoons called “Órbita 830”, but was subsequently canceled after WFNO and KXMG switched formats.
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