- WWBA
Infobox Radio Station
name = WWBA
frequency = 1040 (kHz )
city =Pinellas Park, Florida
area = Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater,Florida
format =
power = 3,600watt s day
420 watts night
class = B
facility_id = 41383
affiliations =
owner = Genesis Communications
licensee = Genesis Communications of Tampa Bay, Inc.
sister_stations =WHBO
webcast =
website =
|WWBA (1040 AM) is a
radio station licensed toPinellas Park, Florida , USA, serving the Tampa Bay area. The station is currently owned by Genesis Communications.At 1040AM, WWBA was a Tampa Bay area talk radio station that aired conservative and libertarian talk shows such as those hosted by Mark Larsen, Dro Silva, Bill O'Reilly,
Michael Savage ,Laura Ingraham andKim Komando .WWBA is the only Tampa news-talk radio station that airs daily call-in programs that focus on Tampa area and Florida news. In July, the station dropped the nationally syndicated
Neil Boortz and expanded its locally-focused mid-morning show to three hours, providing Tampa listeners the most local daytime talk programming.On September 29, 2008, WWBA moved its programming from 1040 AM to the more powerful 820 AM,
WMGG . Listeners to the 1040 AM frequency heard a recorded message every 15 seconds that advised them of the station's frequency move. At 50,000 daytime watts, the 820 AM frequency is one of the state's most powerful radio signals that serves listeners on Florida's entire west coast. On that date, Genesis Communications announced that it reached an agreement to purchase the frequency from Mega Communications of Tampa, which aired a Spanish language music format on 820 AM. [http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/09/29/daily7.html?surround=lfn&brthrs=1] It is expected that the WWBA call sign will move to 820 AM.Genesis Communications also owns
WHBO , a Bay Area sports-talk station, which is expected to move to the 1040 AM frequency in October 2008. [http://www.allaccess.com/site/netNews/story.php?bs=sk&ng=industryTools&storyID=46593&searchTerm=wwba&from=0&to=19]References
External links
* [http://www.radioyears.com/other/details.cfm?lid=13&id=429 Station history]
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