WDLR

WDLR

Infobox_Radio_Station
name = WDLR
area = Delaware, Ohio
branding = "Radio Sol"
slogan =
frequency = 1550 (kHz)
format = Spanish
airdate = June 24, 2004 (as WXOL)
callsign_meaning = W DeLawaRe
owner = The Fifteen Fifty Corporation
power = 500 watts (day)
29 watts (night)
class = D
website = [http://www.wxolradiosol.com/ Radio Sol]

WDLR 1550 AM, signed on the air in Delaware, Ohio about October 1960. Here is the exact listing for the construciton permit from 1961-62 Broadcasting Yearbook: "WDLR (not on air; target date Oct. 1, 1960): 1550 kc; 500 w-D, DA-D. P.O. Box 231. Delaware Broadcasting Inc. (Original owner) C. Robert Taylor, gen mgr & coml mgr."

Today, WDLR is known as "Radio Sol" broadcasting Spanish-language programming including the home games of the Columbus Crew Major League Soccer team.

Prior to taking back the WDLR calls in July 2007, the station used WXOL after June 9, 2004, and before that also used WDLR. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=54557&Callsign=WDLR FCC Call Sign History]

The call letters WDLR represent the station's city of license: W Delaware.

WDLR is licensed to Fifteen Fifty Corporation, which is 100% owned by Patricia Casagrande of Powell, Ohio [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101175935&formid=323&fac_num=54557 (FCC Ownership report)] . The station had been acquired by former WCMH TV4 helicopter pilot Robb Case (born Robb Casegrande), but Robb Case died in September 2007 at age 50 from cancer. [http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/09/14/2_OBIT14.ART_ART_09-14-07_D7_187T429.html?sid=101]

In the early 1990s, WDLR was famous among Ohio Wesleyan students for its lunchtime progam "TRadio," hosted by Stu Sisk.

External links

*AMQ|WDLR
*AML|WDLR
*AMARB|WDLR



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