WRSO
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| City | Orlo Vista, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Orlando |
| Branding | Brasil Radio |
| Slogan | A sua rádio brasileira em Orlando. |
| Frequency | 810 kHz |
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| First air date | January 2006 (as WEUS) |
| Format | News, talk, sports, Brazilian music |
| Language(s) | Portuguese |
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| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 129548 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°34′18.00″N 81°26′2.00″W / 28.5716667°N 81.4338889°W |
| Former callsigns | WEUS (2002-2012) |
| Owner | Star Over Orlando, Inc. (Star Over Orlando, Inc.) |
| Website | brasilradio |
WRSO (810 AM), also known as Brasil Radio, is a radio station licensed to Orlo Vista, Florida, serving the Orlando area. The station is owned by Star Over Orlando and operated by Cafifa Media Group in partnership with the Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação under a local marketing agreement. The station currently broadcasts Brazilian music and local shows and programming broadcast by the Grupo Bandeirantes owned-and-operated radio stations in Brazil, aimed to Brazilians who visit the Orlando parks and for the Portuguese speakers living in the Orlando area.
Signing on in January 2006, WEUS went on the air with an oldies format, filling a void created when Clear Channel's WEBG flipped from oldies to a Spanish-language format over a year earlier. WEUS was running the Scott Shannon's "True Oldies Channel" format via satellite through automation. WEUS was also the flagship station for Mike Harvey's syndicated Supergold program, which is based in Orlando. On June 1, 2008, about six months after oldies returned to FM (when WOCL resumed carrying the format), the station changed ownership, as well as formats. The new ownership, Communicomm Corporation of America, was running a hybrid religious format in place of the syndicated oldies format. As such, the station's original big810.com website had been taken offline.
Communicom Corporation eventually broke its lease-management agreement with Star Over Orlando as Communicom's poor business practices resulted on a loss of over $500,000 over an 18-month period. Effective February 1, 2010, the station resumed operation under the management team of owner Carl Como Tutera and Carmine Tutera.
The station began reimaging itself as a local-oriented hot-talk station in mid-2010. During this phase, "The Mancow Experience," "The Ed Tyll Show", "The Shannon Burke Show", "The Doc Show" with former WXXL morning host Doc Holliday; "Alex Jones, "The Todd Schnitt Show, "The Free Radicals" with hosts Whit Kincaid and John Kurtz; "The Train Wreck with Tim Vestite"; "The Nick and Artie Lange Show" and "The Phil Hendrie Show" all aired on the station at one time or another. WEUS also aired "The People Power Revolution with George Crossley & John Hamilton" until Crossley's death in September 2010. The station aired a growing number of locally based programs throughout the weekend, including "Out N About" (later The Qiew), which was a two-hour program targeting the LGBT communities in Central Florida. The station also aired "The Spry Show", "Alt.Classics," the only classic alternative, indie, punk and new wave music program on Central Florida radio, as well as "The Nick Carioti Show" which discusses real estate, business and politics. Throughout some of this time, the station also played a satellite-based oldies music feed during off peak hours on the weekends.
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