City Boynton Beach, Florida Frequency 1040 kHz Format Spanish talk radio | Branding Actualidad 1040 AM First air date 1973 | |
Power 25,000 watts day
1,100 watts night | ||
WURN (1040 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish talk radio format. Licensed to Boynton Beach, Florida, USA, the station's broadcast license is currently held by Actualidad 1040AM Licensee, LLC.
On April 26, 2016 WURN was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to change the community of license to Miami, increase day power to 50,000 watts, increase night power to 5,000 watts and move the transmitter site to the WMYM site.
History
Boynton Beach's first AM radio station was WZZZ, which broadcast with a Top 40 format on 1510 kHz and went on the air April 10, 1962. WZZZ went off the air in September, 1965; it was eventually replaced by a newly licensed station on 1510 using the call sign WKAO. In the 1980s WKAO moved to 1040 kHz.WKAO changed its call letters to WYFX on May 3, 1986. Subsequently the station changed its call sign to WJNA on November 1, 1996, to WJNO on September 22, 1997, to WBZT on March 6, 2000, back to WJNA on December 20, 2000, and to WLVJ on January 7, 2003. The station was home to the Jewish program "Shalom South Florida" and the long-running oldies specialty show "Ken Held's Doo-Wop Shop."
On January 24, 2012, the FCC approved the transfer of the WLVJ broadcast license from James-Crystal Radio's subsidiary, JCE Licenses LLC, to a company known as Actualidad 1040AM Licensee, LLC. Prior to the sale to Actualidad 1040AM Licensee, LLC., the station aired a Christian format branded "Family Values Radio".
The station changed its call sign to the current WURN on December 6, 2016.