WBJW-AM 1440 Winter Park

WBJW-AM 1440
Winter Park

Original Call Letters: WABR

Originally Licensed: Sep 1954

Original City of License: Winter Park

Original Frequency: 1440

Origin of Call Letters: Co-owned with WBJW-FM 105.1

Original Power: 5,000 Watts-Daytime

Original Location: 222 Hazard St., Orlando

Original Format: Oldies/Lite Rock

Network Affiliation(s):	ABC
	Mutual Broadcasting System
	CNN

Owner(s):	1954-Orange County Broadcasting
	1959-Contemporary Broadcasting Co.
	1966-Norfolk Broadcasting Corp.
	1971-Rounsaville Broadcasting, Atlanta (Co-owned with WBJW-FM 105.1)
	1977-WSEC, Inc.
	1982-Nationwide Communications ($6.5 million with WBJW-FM 105.1 & WLOF-AM 950)
	1986-Alleluia Broadcasting Corp
	1987-Metroplex Communications of Orlando Inc.
	1993-Paxson Communications ($5.6 million with WMGF-FM 107.7)
	1994-J & V Communications, Inc. ($300,000)

History Of Call Letters and Formats:	WABR-1954-Top 40 "The Happy Difference"
	WABR-1966-Country
	WBJW-1971-Oldies/Lite Rock "The Entertainer"
	WBJW-1975-Easy Listening
	WNBE-1976-NBC 24 Hour News
	WAJL-1977-Easy Listening
	WAJL-1987-Christian Ministry (Station sold. WAJL moves to 1190)
	WPRD-1987-Classics of the '40s, '50s and '60s "Pride-1440"
	WPRD-1990-Children "The Imagination Station"
	WPRD-1991-CNN Headline News/WESH TV News
	WWZN-1993-Talk
	WWZN-1993-Sports
	WPRD-1994-Talk
	WPRD-1995-Spanish

WBJW Personalities

Phil Hendrie-mid-1970s
Phil dropped out of Pasadena City College after two years, and moved with friends to Orlando, Florida to work as a construction laborer/cement finisher in the middle of the early seventies. The Central Florida building boom was on, and Phil contributed to building Walt Disney World. According to Mr. Hendrie, he "...still entertained ideas about being a writer but didn't really write anything." Realizing that he'd need a job to support himself if he was ever going to get down to the business of writing, he unwittingly chose his career... "I landed a gig as a disc jockey at WBJW 1440 AM in Winter Park Florida, a suburb of Orlando. I never really did start writing anything. And for that matter never did anything of note as a disc jockey for some 16 years, drifting from Orlando, to New Orleans to Miami and then home to Los Angeles, spinning records and hating it. Real waste of life..."