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History

Early Stations

• The origins of this station date back to July 1922, when it signed on as WIAD on 1200 AM, owned by Howard R. Miller.
• In 1928, per order of the FRC (Federal Radio Commission), the station moved to 1370 AM.
• In 1929, calls changed to WELK.
• In 1934, Howard Miller sold the station and it became WDAS.
• The WDAS calls stood for the new owners, silk manufacturers Dannenbaum & Steppacher.
• The station broadcasted various ethnic programming in languages such as Italian, Yiddish and Polish.
• In 1941, WDAS moved to 1400 AM, then a few years later to its current position of 1480 AM.
• In 1950, candy manufacturer Max M. Leon purchased the station for $495,000.
• The programming was big bands, ethnic and cultural shows.

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• His son-in-law, GM Robert A. Klein, shifted the programming to black entertainment around 1954 - jazz and rhythm & blues.
• In the 1950's and 1960's, they added a number of young personalities, including Georgie Woods, Jimmy Bishop, Carl Helm, Butterball Tamburro, Jocko Henderson and Hy Lit.

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• The station retained the R&B format in the 1960's and added gospel music with Louise Williams and the Georgie Woods show moved from music to talk.
• In 1979, Leon sold the station to minority-owned Unity Broadcasting Network.
• In the 1980's, WDAS added the National Black Network (NBN) news, and tried a news format in the mornings (anchored locally by Karen Warrington & E. Steven Collins) and afternoons (via the NBN feed) to compete with KYW-AM. This was unsuccessful and the station returned with a mix of gospel, R&B and talk shows.
• In 1988, the station switched to an all gospel music and religious format.^[1]

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Rumba 1480

On May 16, 2007 Clear Channel flipped Rumba 104.5 to Radio 104.5, a modern rock station. The Rumba format was not killed however. Instead it was moved to 1480. As a result 1480 assumed the "Rumba" Spanish format, previously on 104.5, thus ending WDAS-AM's format of gospel music. 1480 is now "Rumba 1480".

Notes

External link

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WDAS
• wikipedia page on Rumba 104.5