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WDEL (AM)
WDEL (1150 kHz) is a commercial radio station in Wilmington, Delaware. It simulcasts a news/talk radio format with sister station WDEL-FM 101.7 MHz. They are owned by Draper Holdings Business Trust with the license held by WBOC, Inc.
WDEL 1150 broadcasts with 5,000 watts around the clock. To protect other stations on 1150 AM from interference, WDEL uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter, studios and offices located on Shipley Road in Wilmington..
WDEL-AM-FM feature local talk and information shows on weekdays with nationally syndicated talk programs at night: The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, Rich Valdés America at Night, Red Eye Radio and America in the Morning. On weekends, WDEL-AM-FM have specialty shows devoted to money, sports, real estate, home repair, gardening and travel, including some paid brokered programming. Syndicated shows on weekends includes The Money Pit, Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg, Jill on Money, The CBS News Weekend Roundup and Motley Fool Money. World and national news is supplied by CBS News Radio.
WDEL-AM-FM carry Philadelphia Phillies baseball and Philadelphia Eagles football. Additionally, WDEL-AM-FM air New Castle County high school football and basketball games. Sports betting shows from VSiN are heard on weekend nights.
WDEL was first licensed in July 1922. It was owned by the Wilmington Electrical Specialty Company, and was initially issued the sequentially assigned call sign WHAV. It made its debut broadcast on July 22 as one of the earliest broadcasting stations licensed in the United States, and the first in the state of Delaware. In 1926 the call sign were changed to WDEL. Founded by Willard S. Wilson, the station was originally a 250-watt station, but by the late 1940s, it had been granted an increase to its current power of 5,000 watts.
WDEL was later owned by the Delmarva Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Steinman Enterprises, a family-owned newspaper, broadcasting and mining company, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Delmarva owned WDEL for more than 80 years.
During the "Golden Age of Radio," WDEL was an NBC Red Network affiliate, carrying its dramas, comedies, sports, news, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts. For a time in the 1940s, WDEL was co-owned with another early AM station licensed to Wilmington, WILM. While WDEL carried NBC Red Network programs, WILM aired shows from the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
In 1949, WDEL signed on a TV station, Channel 7 WDEL-TV. Because WDEL had been a long-time NBC radio affiliate, WDEL-TV became an NBC-TV network affiliate. It also carried programming from the DuMont Television Network. But it was limited in power due to its proximity to two other Channel 7 stations in New York City and Washington, DC. It later moved to Channel 12. The Steinman Family sold Channel 12 in 1955 and it eventually became WHYY-TV, the PBS station for Philadelphia, but still licensed to Wilmington.
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WDEL (AM)
WDEL (1150 kHz) is a commercial radio station in Wilmington, Delaware. It simulcasts a news/talk radio format with sister station WDEL-FM 101.7 MHz. They are owned by Draper Holdings Business Trust with the license held by WBOC, Inc.
WDEL 1150 broadcasts with 5,000 watts around the clock. To protect other stations on 1150 AM from interference, WDEL uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter, studios and offices located on Shipley Road in Wilmington..
WDEL-AM-FM feature local talk and information shows on weekdays with nationally syndicated talk programs at night: The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, Rich Valdés America at Night, Red Eye Radio and America in the Morning. On weekends, WDEL-AM-FM have specialty shows devoted to money, sports, real estate, home repair, gardening and travel, including some paid brokered programming. Syndicated shows on weekends includes The Money Pit, Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg, Jill on Money, The CBS News Weekend Roundup and Motley Fool Money. World and national news is supplied by CBS News Radio.
WDEL-AM-FM carry Philadelphia Phillies baseball and Philadelphia Eagles football. Additionally, WDEL-AM-FM air New Castle County high school football and basketball games. Sports betting shows from VSiN are heard on weekend nights.
WDEL was first licensed in July 1922. It was owned by the Wilmington Electrical Specialty Company, and was initially issued the sequentially assigned call sign WHAV. It made its debut broadcast on July 22 as one of the earliest broadcasting stations licensed in the United States, and the first in the state of Delaware. In 1926 the call sign were changed to WDEL. Founded by Willard S. Wilson, the station was originally a 250-watt station, but by the late 1940s, it had been granted an increase to its current power of 5,000 watts.
WDEL was later owned by the Delmarva Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Steinman Enterprises, a family-owned newspaper, broadcasting and mining company, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Delmarva owned WDEL for more than 80 years.
During the "Golden Age of Radio," WDEL was an NBC Red Network affiliate, carrying its dramas, comedies, sports, news, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts. For a time in the 1940s, WDEL was co-owned with another early AM station licensed to Wilmington, WILM. While WDEL carried NBC Red Network programs, WILM aired shows from the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
In 1949, WDEL signed on a TV station, Channel 7 WDEL-TV. Because WDEL had been a long-time NBC radio affiliate, WDEL-TV became an NBC-TV network affiliate. It also carried programming from the DuMont Television Network. But it was limited in power due to its proximity to two other Channel 7 stations in New York City and Washington, DC. It later moved to Channel 12. The Steinman Family sold Channel 12 in 1955 and it eventually became WHYY-TV, the PBS station for Philadelphia, but still licensed to Wilmington.