101.7 slogan your source for news and information in wilmington frequency 1150 khz first air date july 22 1922 1 format news talk power 5 000 watts class b facility id 16458 transmitter coordinates 39 48 54 n 75 31 47 w 39.81500 n 75.52972 w 39.81500 ; 75.52972 affiliations cbs radio associated press owner delmarva broadcasting company webcast listen live 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 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 . among its personalities were disc jockeys dick graham bill horleman and arnold zenker sports director bill pheiffer and news reporters manning kimmel 2 joe mosbrook 3 burke hully pat ciarrocchi 4 and top rated local talk host craig butcher . in the mid 1980s wdel was the first wilmington radio station to provide traffic reports . wdel s trafficwatch on the 9 s remains on the air today . wdel employs three trafficwatch reporters most notably robin bryson . two of the reporters travel in vans and report from the roads . 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 adopted a schedule of mostly local live news and talk . in 2004 wdel was awarded by the national association of broadcasters with its prestigious crystal award for public service . in 2005 wdel became one of the first radio stations in the nation if not the first to produce web based news video for its website wdel.com . wdel has won several prestigious edward r. murrow awards from the radio television digital news association including national awards in 2007 for best website and 2009 for best newscast . wdel has also been named news operation of the year by the chesapeake associated press broadcasters association numerous times . in 2011 wdel won a prestigious marconi award from the national association of broadcasters for medium market station of the year . in 2014 wdel s news department won the prestigious rtdna national edward r. murrow award for overall excellence . wdel also won rtdna s national murrow award for best newscast that year . wdel airs philadelphia phillies baseball philadelphia eagles football plus other local and national sports events . wdel also airs wesley college football and numerous new castle county high school football and basketball games including the state championship games for both sports . wdel is privately 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 family owned lancaster pennsylvania newspaper and mining company . wdel once operated wdel tv 2 which became wvue and later went off the air . the former frequency of wvue is now whyy tv . since april 1 2015 wdel has been simulcast onto 101.7 wdel after the delmarva broadcasting company bought the former wjks . references edit http www.broadcastpioneers.com wdeltv49.html 1 external links edit official website query the fcc s am station database for wdel radio locator information on wdel query nielsen audio s am station database for wdel fcc history cards for wdel v t e radio stations in the wilmington delaware market by am frequency 1150 1290 1380 1450 1510 by fm frequency 89.1 91.3 91.7 93.7 99.5 101.7 103.7 107.7 by callsign wdel wdel fm wfai wilm wjbr fm wmph wrti wstw wtmc wvud wwtx wxcy wxhl fm defunct wnwk 1260 philadelphia metro markets allentown monmouth ocean reading trenton wilmington delaware radio markets wilmington salisbury ocean city md other delaware radio regions dover see also list of radio stations in delaware v t e news talk radio stations in the state of delaware by callsign wdel wdov wgmd wilm wxde by frequency 1150 1410 1450 92.7 105.9 by community of license dover lewes rehoboth beach wilmington wilmington see also adult contemporary classic hits college country news talk npr oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in delaware v t e steinman communications lancaster newspapers inc. intelligencer journal lancaster new era lancaster farming delmarva broadcasting company wafl wavd wdel wdel fm wfai wncl wstw wxcy wxde wyus other assets intelligencer printing steinman coal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wdel am & oldid 744501974 categories radio stations in delawareradio stations established in 1922wilmington 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