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WPAT-FM, known on-air as "
93.1 Amor", is a
radio station with a
Spanish-language adult contemporary format. Located on 93.1
FM, the station, which is licensed to
Paterson, New Jersey, serves the
New York City Metropolitan area.
WPAT-FM signed on in
1957 from their studios in
Newark, New Jersey. They eventually moved to new studios on Church Street in Paterson, and would later move to their last studio on Broad Street in
Clifton, New Jersey before the station adopted its current format.
The station, along with its
AM counterpart, would be owned for many years by
Capital Cities Communications. This would change in
1985, when the company would buy
ABC. As a result of
FCC regulations of the time, the company decided to sell WPAT-AM and -FM, due to the fact that ABC already owned
WABC and
WPLJ. The stations would be sold to
Park Communications.
For years WPAT operated both stations with a
beautiful music format under the slogan "Easy 93". In the early 1990s, WPAT-FM would gradually switch to an
adult contemporary format, and from October
1994 to their sign off in January
1996, the station was known as "Today's 93.1". In November
1995, the
Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) agreed to purchase the 93.1 FM license and transmitter. The building and intellectual property was excluded from the sale. The building, the AM transmitter, and 930 AM license would be sold to Heftel Broadcasting (now
Univisión radio), which was another company specializing in Spanish-language programming.
On
January 19,
1996 at 11:59 PM, WPAT-FM ceased being an English language broadcaster when control of the station was switched over to the new owners. WPAT-FM DJ Karen Carson did the last airshift for the station's adult contemporary format that day, and Operations Director Ken McKenzie would give a farewell speech right before the format change. Immediately after the station signed off from Clifton, the new Spanish-language adult contemporary format signed on from
Manhattan, and the station would begin calling itself "
Suave 93.1" ("Smooth 93.1"). Eventually, the station would be known by its current nickname, "93.1
Amor" ("93.1 Love").
For many years WPAT-FM's Manhattan transmitter was located atop the North Tower of the
World Trade Center, but it was destroyed as a result of the
September 11, 2001 attacks. The station's transmitter was eventually moved to the
Empire State Building.
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