New York’s WWRL to link with 11 Caribbean stations for Christmas

(December 12, 2005) On Christmas Eve (Saturday, December 24th), WWRL will go island hopping, bringing greetings and Christmas sounds of the islands to the listeners in the New York Metropolitan area.  This series of live links with radio stations throughout the Caribbean will bring family and friends together and help spread holiday cheer among New York’s Caribbean community. 

Program Director Rennie Bishop says “This programming is a way to bring our audience closer to their families in the Caribbean during the holiday season. It continues our commitment to serve our community.”   

The program will feature live half-hour links to key Caribbean countries throughout the day on Christmas Eve. This live link with 11 Caribbean countries will allow listeners to call in to send Christmas greetings home to family and friends and receive greetings from those in their home country as well.

The links include stations in Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, Antigua, Guyana, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Thomas, Jamaica, and St. Kitts.

WWRL, known as New York’s Urban Talk, provides programming on Saturdays directed at the large Caribbean Market in the New York Tri-State area.

WWRL 1600AM, licensed to Access.1 Communications Corp. is a 24-hour African American owned and operated radio station serving the New York metro. Access.1 Communications Corp. also owns and operates 7 stations in Shreveport, LA., 7 in Tyler-Longview-Marshall, Texas; 6 in stations in Atlantic City, NJ, and an NBC TV affiliate(WMGM-TV 40) in Atlantic City.  The company also owns and operates SupeRadio; a syndication company that distributes over forty programs broadcasting to an estimated 100 million people combined, and is one of the two founding partners of American Urban Radio Networks.


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