WRSJ

WRSJ (1560 AM, Metro Radio) is a radio station licensed to serve Bayamon, Puerto Rico. WRSJ serves the San Juan Metropolitan area that covers Bayamon, Guaynabo, Carolina, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Fajardo, Dorado, Cataño & Trujillo Alto. The station is owned by the IBC Divestiture Trust, and it is operated by Centro Media Group.

The station was assigned the WRSJ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

History

WRSJ began operations on 1560 kHz in the 1960s, under the name, Radio San Juan, founded by the late Andrés 'Bubo' Gomez, and was transmitting Beautiful Music.

Ownership

In December 1994, aviation executive Anthony Tirri announced plans to purchase WRSJ, then known as the former "Radio San Juan," for a reported sale price of $850,000. Tirri also announced that under his ownership the station would switch to English-language programming. At the time, WOSO was the only existing English-language station in the market.

In July 2003, International Broadcasting Corp. (Angel Roman, president) reached an agreement to buy two radio stations, WRSJ and WKVN, from Concillio Mision Cristiano Fuente de Agua Viva Inc. (Otoniel Font, president) for a reported sale price of $1.45 million.