WDJA
Spanish Christian radio station in Delray Beach, Florida
WDJA (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Oldies format, licensed to Delray Beach, Florida, United States. The station is owned by Little Dog Media, LLC.
History
The station went on the air as WDBF in the 70s and broadcast a big band format under the ownership of bandleader Vic Knight. On April 3, 2001, the station changed its call sign to WPBI. On April 23, 2003, the calls were changed to WFFL but were quickly changed to WFTL one week later. The following week (May 7, 2003) the call sign was again changed to WDJA. On February 3, 2009, the World Ethnic format was dropped for a news/talk format.
On January 1, 2012, WDJA flipped to a Spanish Christian format branded as Radio Universo.
The public source identifies “WDJA” as spanish Christian radio station in Delray Beach, Florida. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WDJA, Spanish and Christian.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7948416. Authority coordinates are 26.456, -80.099. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1420, 2001, 2003 and 2009.
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This entry incorporates text from “WDJA” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.