{{Short description|Radio station in Dover, Delaware (1957–2016)}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox radio station | country = US | name = WRJE | logo = | city = [[Dover, Delaware]] | area = [[Dover, Delaware]] | branding = ''Sabrosa Radio'' | frequency = 1600 [[kHz]] | translator = | format = Defunct, was [[Regional Mexican]] | airdate = August 2, [[1957 in radio|1957]] | last_airdate = January 13, [[2016 in radio|2016]]<br>{{small|(date of license cancellation)}} | power = 5,000 [[watt]]s daytime<br>1,000 watts nighttime | class = B | facility_id = 21632 | coordinates = {{coord|39|10|11|N|75|33|13|W|region:US-DE_type:landmark}} | callsign_meaning = | former_callsigns = WKEN (1957–1997)<br>WQVL (1997–2000)<br>WAMS (2000–2002)<br>WNRK (2002)<br>WKEN (2002)<br>WIBF (2002–2004)<br>WKEN (2004–2005)<br>WRJE (2005–2007)<br>WAMS (2007)<br>WXXY (2007–2009)<br>WDPZ (2009)<br>WAMS (2009–2011)<br>WMHZ (4/2011-9/2011)<br>WAMS (9/2011-11/2011) | affiliations = | owner = EKO Media Group, Inc. | licensee = | sister_stations = | webcast = | website = }}
'''WRJE''' (1600 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) was a [[radio station]] licensed to the [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]], [[Delaware]] metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in [[1957 in radio|1957]] under the [[callsign (radio)|call sign]] '''WKEN'''. The license was cancelled by the [[FCC]] on January 13, 2016 due to the station owner's failure to provide information required by said agency.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=63052|title=FCC letter cancelling WRJE's license|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref>
==History== The station went on the air August 2, 1957<ref name="by1999">{{cite book|title=Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999|year=1999|page=D-81|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1999/D-Radio-AL-NE-BC-YB-1999..pdf|access-date=March 24, 2017}}</ref> as '''WKEN'''.<ref name="fcc-wken">{{cite web|title=WKEN (DWRJE) FCC history cards|url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=62193|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=March 24, 2017}}</ref> It became WQVL on February 23, 1997, and was renamed WAMS on January 31, 2001. The station was unrelated to [[WTMC]] (1380 AM), a radio station in [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]] which used the WAMS call sign from 1947 to 2000. The call sign was briefly changed to WNRK on March 26, 2002, then reverted to WKEN less than two months later. On July 21, 2002, the call sign was changed to WIBF to match its FM sister station in New Jersey (88.7 FM, now [[WEHA]]), which it had been simulcasting. On October 13, 2004, the station reverted to its original call sign WKEN for a third time. The original call sign remained in effect for almost a year until September 28, 2005, when the call sign was again changed to WRJE. The WAMS call sign returned to 1600 AM for a second time on January 11, 2007 and remained until July 10, 2007 when the call sign was changed to the call letters WXXY, again to match its sister station in New Jersey (88.7 FM), which it was once again simulcasting.
By June 2008, the FM station in New Jersey dropped the WXXY-FM call sign for WGMX and dropped the simulcast. By 2009, WXXY was still broadcasting a Gospel music format and had added an FM [[Broadcast relay station|translator]] on 98.7 MHz in Dover with the call sign "W254AT". The station branded itself "Praise 98.7". The call sign changed again on May 15, 2009 to WDPZ. On September 7, 2009, the callsign was changed back to WAMS, playing an oldies format; also the frequency changed to 98.3 FM on translator W252CH. It also used translator W286BS/105.1-Milford, Delaware. On April 21, 2011, this station changed its callsign from WAMS to WMHZ. On September 29, 2011, WMHZ changed callsigns back to WAMS. On November 6, 2011, WAMS changed formats from 1980s' music to Gospel music. On November 17, 2011, WAMS changed callsigns back to WRJE. On February 10, 2012 WRJE changed formats to regional Mexican, branded as "Sabrosa Radio".
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=21632 Facility details for Facility ID 21632 (WRJE)] in the FCC Licensing and Management System *[https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=62193 FCC History Cards for WRJE] (covering 1955-1981 as WKEN)
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