WWDJ
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| City | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Branding | Radio Luz 1150 AM |
| Frequency | 1150 (kHz) |
| First air date | August 26, 1935 (as WCOP) |
| Format | Spanish Christian |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 25051 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°24′48.00″N 71°12′40.00″W / 42.4133333°N 71.2111111°WCoordinates: 42°24′48.00″N 71°12′40.00″W / 42.4133333°N 71.2111111°W |
| Callsign meaning | "W-W-Disc Jockey" |
| Former callsigns | 2003-2008: WTTT 2003: WBPS (157 days) 1999-2003: WAMG 1996-1999: WNFT 1996: WROR (66 days) 1985-1996: WMEX 1982-1985: WHUE 1981-1982: WSNY 1979-1981: WHUE 1977-1979: WACQ 1935-1977: WCOP |
| Former frequencies | 1934-1941: 1120 (kHz) |
| Owner |
Salem Media Group (Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WBIX, WEZE, WROL |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www.radioluzboston.com |
WWDJ (1150 AM, "Radio Luz") [Light Radio in Spanish] is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Christian format. Licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, it serves the Boston metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Salem Communications.
WWDJ first signed on August 26, 1935 as WCOP (for the studio location, the COPley Plaza Hotel). Originally a daytime station, WCOP got the go-ahead to expand to 24-hour-a-day broadcasting in 1941. A In June 1945, it became Boston's home of the ABC Radio Network, an affiliation it would keep until the early 1950s. The station adopted a music format in 1956, and became one of the first stations in New England to utilize disk jockeys. In the late 1950s, one such DJ was Bob Wilson, who later became the radio play-by-play voice of the Boston Bruins hockey team.
After stints as Top-40 (1956–62), and middle-of-the-road (1962–68), WCOP switched to a country music format, and was an affiliate of NBC Radio Network (WCOP became an NBC affiliate in 1966, two years before the switch to country). In 1977, WCOP dropped NBC Radio, and flipped from country to top-40 under the call letters WACQ. The new format lasted only until the station was sold and new owners came in on January 1, 1979. At that time, WACQ and then-sister station WTTK (now WZLX) flipped to a partially simulcast beautiful music station as WHUE and WHUE-FM. Stints as an all-news station and a soft adult contemporary format under the call letters of WSNY followed. In 1985, the station became an oldies station under the well-known WMEX callsign, after a sale to Greater Media. Although enjoying some moderate success at first, WODS flipped to an oldies format in late 1987, and WMEX never recovered. By 1990, the oldies format was replaced by business talk; this gave way in 1991 to a simulcast of WMJX, and then to leased ethnic programming shortly afterwards.
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