WDEL

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WDEL
City of license Wilmington, Delaware
Slogan "News Talk Radio"
Frequency 1150 kHz
First air date 1922
Format News/Talk
Power 5000 Watts
Class B
Transmitter Coordinates 39°48′54″N 75°31′47″W / 39.815, -75.52972
Owner Delmarva Broadcasting Company
Website wdel.com

WDEL (1150 AM) is a news/talk radio station in Wilmington, Delaware. WDEL first signed on in 1922 and is one of the first 100 broadcast radio stations licensed in the US. WDEL is a class B (regional) station, currently operating at 5,000 watts.

For much of its history, WDEL was an NBC affiliate. Prior to 1942, WDEL was co-owned with WILM-AM with WDEL taking programs primarily from NBC's Red Network and WILM taking programs mostly from NBC's Blue Network. With the demise of old time network radio in the 1950s, WDEL adopted a full service format combining news, sports and Middle of the road music. In the mid-1990s, WDEL moved to a news/talk format broadcasting local news and a local call-in show in the morning, plus various nationally-syndicated programs including Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch Albom and Sean Hannity. In 2006, WDEL lost most of it's national programs to former sister station, WILM, and adopted a schedule of mostly local-live news and talk.

WDEL also produces a local evening Sports Talk program and continues to air Philadelphia Phillies baseball, Philadelphia Eagles football, plus other local and national sports events.

WDEL is owned and operated by Delmarva Broadcasting Company, which owns 11 stations in the region including Wilmington's WSTW, the former WDEL-FM. Delmarva is a subsidiary of Steinman Enterprises, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania newspaper and mining company.

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Radio stations in the Wilmington, Delaware market (Arbitron #75) (R&R info)
By FM frequency
89.1 • 91.3 • 91.7 • 93.7 • 99.5 • 101.7 • 103.7
By AM frequency
1150 • 1260 • 1290 • 1380 • 1450
By callsign
WDEL • WILM • WJBR-FM • WJKS •WMPH • WNWK • WSTW • WTMC • WVUD • WWTX • WXCY • WXHL-FM

Delaware Radio Markets: Wilmington • Salisbury-Ocean City, MD

Other Delaware Radio Regions: Dover

See also: List of radio stations in Delaware
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