WOSO


WOSO was a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information radio format. Licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States, it served the San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area. The station was owned by Sherman Broadcasting Corporation, with Sherman Wildman as president. It featured local news-talk shows and syndicated programming from CBS News Radio, ESPN Radio and Westwood One.

History

WOSO was launched on November 21, 1977.
WOSO was the only radio station in Puerto Rico that broadcast in English full-time. until the K-LOVE station WCAD was launched in early 2019.
On October 21, 2014, after 37 years broadcasting on 1030 AM, WOSO signed off. The transmitter had been vandalized and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority was forced to shut down the station. As of October 22, 2014, WOSO is silent. After an initial effort to revive the station as an online stream, nothing further has been heard.

Ownership

In 1993, Sherman Wildman purchased WOSO for a reported sale price of $1.2 million.