WORL-AM 1270  
Eatonville

Original Call Letters: WHIY
Originally Licensed: 1957  
Power: 5,000 Day timer
Original City of  License: Orlando   
Original Format: Country                        

Owner(s): 1978-Sudbrink  Broadcasting
                1986-Metcom Associates Limited Partnership
                1987-Metropolex Communications of Orlando Inc. 
                1987-WORL Radio Inc ($1.65 million)
                1988-Royal Barber, Willie Martin
                1992-Rumbault & Associates
                1996-Radio Luz ($378,500)

History Of Call Letters and Formats: WHIY-1957-Country
                                                         WORL-1978-R & B
                                                         WORL-1987-R & B
                                                         WBZS-1989-Business News
                                                         WHBS-1991-Spanish 
                                                         WHBS-1995-Silent
                                                         WRLZ-1999-Christian/Spanish
                                                         

WORL History
From Brian Douglas: "...WORJ(-FM 107.7) was...the sister-station of WORL and carried WORL's programming (which was big bands) in non-simulcast hours (originally WORJ was only doing album rock from 6pm to midnight(?) weekdays and 10AM to 2AM(?) on weekends). In the late 1970s, WORL applied for a night license as Eatonville's first broadcast service (that was the only way to get nighttime hours on a day timer in a city that already had full-time AMs).  They were granted the COL (change of license) and 5,000 watts directional at night.  On August 18, 1978, they were sold to Sudbrink  Broadcasting (nationally prominent Black programmed chain) and flipped to R&B.  Metcom Associates Limited Partnership acquired the station on September 12, 1986.  It remained an R&B station.  I don't think it flipped to Spanish until around the time it was put into the hands of Julio Rumbault (a Receiver) in May of 1992.  The calls became WHBS..." 
The WORL calls would move "up" the dial to 660 AM in 1986.

WORL Personalities
JoJo Dancer
The Madhatter (former morning host with JoJo Dancer)
Maxwell St.Clair
Steve Curry (now "Brother" Steve January)
OJ & Donna French
Scrap Jackson
CJ Roquemoore (Curt Creel)
Nightbird 
Willie Clark (aka Roger Clark, Willie Dee)
Max Johnson (Currently at WCFB)
Bartell Bartell-(Bartell Coleman, Jr.)-graduated from Orlando's Oak Ridge High School in 1987. Killed in a motorcycle   
accident in Alabama in 2004. 
Nick At Night
Ray Crume-Host of "Gospel Power", which airs from 5 a.m. to noon Sunday  
Vicki (Venturini) Massino-Copywriter/Production Director and morning news anchor 

Other Names in WORL History
Willie Martin-General manager

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