WACA (AM)

WACA
City	Wheaton, Maryland
Branding	Radio America
Frequency	1540 kHz
Format	Spanish Contemporary
Power	5,000 watts day 1,000 watts critical hours
Class	D
Facility ID	38439
Transmitter coordinates	39°0′50.00″N 77°1′46.00″W / 39.0138889°N 77.0294444°W / 39.0138889; -77.0294444
Former callsigns	WMDO (1981-1997)
Affiliations	AP Radio
Owner	Ac Acquisition, LLC
Website	radioamerica.net

WACA is a radio station broadcasting on 1540 kHz in the mediumwave AM band. It is a Spanish language news and talk station broadcasting as Radio America. Its transmitter is located in Wheaton, Maryland and it serves the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. WACA has a daytime transmitter power of 5,000 watts, reaching as far north as Frederick County in Maryland and as far south as Stafford and Prince William Counties in Virginia.^[1] WACA's signal is also available (via a special SCA receiver) on a subcarrier of WASH.^[2]

Owner

Alejandro Carrasco is the station's owner-operator. A native of the Dominican Republic, he came to the United States in the 1970s. While attending Montgomery College in 1979, he worked as a DJ at student parties and master of ceremonies at weddings. The news staff at 1540 AM (then Radio Mundo, WMDO) discovered him at a wedding, and hired him as an anchor in 1983. Carrasco later moved to Radio Borinquen (now Radio Viva, WILC 900 AM in Laurel), rising to be general manager, and then returned to WACA to begin a 30-minute morning show, Calentando la Mañana (Heating Up the Morning) in 1987. Carrasco leased WACA and its transmitter in 1997, and then bought the station when the lease expired in 2000, naming it "Radio America."^[3]

History

1540 began as WDON, a [originally a rock and roll station in the 1950s which morphed to country music in the early 1960s with the move of Stan Karas who had been at WARL in Arlington[Country music|country]] station named for the son of its then-owner, Don Dillard.^[2] In the 1970s, it was an oldies station, and then briefly "Disco D-O-N". After that, it converted to Spanish, first as WMDO, "Radio Mundo",^[4] and then with the current WACA call sign.

History of call letters

The call letters WACA previously were assigned to an AM station in Camden, South Carolina. It began broadcasting July 18, 1949, on 1590 kHz with 1 KW power (daytime). The station was owned by Camden Broadcasting Corporation.^[5]

References

↑ "Wellness Through Media". Archived from the original on 3 October 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2007.
1 2 "Washington DC/Baltimore Area AM Radio". Archived from the original on 3 February 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2007.
↑ Williams, Krissah; Farhi, Paul (3 July 2006). "Spanish-Language Radio's Big Voice". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 February 2007.
↑ "Washington, D.C. AM Station History". Retrieved 17 February 2007.
↑ "WACA Camden, S.C., Opens with 1 KW Day" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 19, 1949. Retrieved 26 December 2014.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WACA

Radio-Locator Information on WACA

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WACA

Radio stations in the Washington, D.C. market

By AM frequency	Washington, D.C. 630 980 1120 1260 1340 1450 1500 Maryland 540 570 900 950 1030 1050 1160 1540 1560 1580 1600 Northern Virginia 730 780 920 1190 1220 1250 1310 1390 1460 1480

By FM frequency	Washington, D.C. 88.5 89.3 90.1 90.9 93.9 96.3 97.1 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 103.5 107.3 Maryland 88.1 91.9 92.7 94.3 94.7 95.5 99.1 99.9 102.3 104.1 107.9 Northern Virginia 87.7 89.9 94.3 96.7 97.5 97.7 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio	162.45 162.55

By callsign	KHB36 W249BE WACA WAMU WASH WAVA WAVA-FM WBIG-FM WBQH WCRW WCSP-FM WCTN WDCH-FM WDCN-LP WDCT WERA-LP WETA WFAX WFED WFRE WGOP WGTS WHUR-FM WIAD WIHT WILC WJEV-LP WJFK WJFK-FM WKDV WKIK WKIK-FM WKYS WLXE WLZL WMAL WMAL-FM WMET WMMJ WMUC-FM WMZQ-FM WNG736 WOL WOWD-LP WPER WPFW WPGC-FM WPRS-FM WPWC WRCW WRQX WSPZ WTEM WTNT WTOP-FM WURA WUST WWDC WWGB WWRC WWWT-FM WWXT WWXX WYCB WZHF

Defunct Stations	WCAP WGMS WTWP WWZZ WGTB WHFS (FM)

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 214 Sirius Channel 152 Washington, D.C. metro markets Frederick, MD Fredericksburg, VA Baltimore See also List of radio stations in Washington, D.C. List of radio stations in Virginia List of radio stations in Maryland

Spanish-language radio stations in the state of Maryland

Stations	WACA – Wheaton WBQH – Silver Spring WLXE – Rockville WLZL – College Park

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Maryland See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

Daytime-Only radio stations in Maryland

Stations	WACA - Wheaton WBMD - Baltimore WCTR - Chestertown WDMV - Walkersville WFSI - Baltimore WKDI - Denton WKIK - La Plata WTRI - Brunswick WWGB - Indian Head WYRE - Annapolis

Defunct	WBIS - Annapolis

See also: Clear channel radio stations and Why AM Radio Stations Must Reduce Power, Change Operations, or Cease Operations at Night

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