WPHE
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WPHE at 690 AM in Phoenixville
, Pennsylvania
, U.S.
is known as Radio Salvación (Salvation Radio), a Spanish Christian
Religion station. Before it was acquired by the Radio Salvación corporation, it was WYIS Radio 7. Radio 7 was divided in Radio Cultural hosted by Fran Santiago and Radio Nuevo Horizonte Spanish religious block led by Rev. Jose Rivera. The team included Aixa Torregrosa, Rev. Jose Castro, and many other well known radio personalities. In 1988 the station was sold by its owner, Dr. B. Sam Hart, to Rev. Sarait Salva. Mr. Salva was a religious radio announcer in Radio Redentor of Utuado and Radio Felicidad of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
. WYIS was a radio station with diversity in its programming, including almost a whole day in Portuguese. Today WPHE is exclusively a Pentecostal radio station, although its leaders were affiliated with the Lancaster Conference of the Mennonite Church. They broke from the Conference to form Koinonia, an Anabaptist association of churches in Philadelphia. Rev. Salva and Evangelist Juan Carlos Izquierdo are well respected leaders among them.
Transmitter Coordinates 40°08′8.00"N 75°33′37.00"W
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, northwest of Philadelphia, at the junction of French Creek with the Schuylkill River. The population is 16,440 as of the 2010 Census.- History :...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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, U.S.
United States
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is known as Radio Salvación (Salvation Radio), a Spanish Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
Religion station. Before it was acquired by the Radio Salvación corporation, it was WYIS Radio 7. Radio 7 was divided in Radio Cultural hosted by Fran Santiago and Radio Nuevo Horizonte Spanish religious block led by Rev. Jose Rivera. The team included Aixa Torregrosa, Rev. Jose Castro, and many other well known radio personalities. In 1988 the station was sold by its owner, Dr. B. Sam Hart, to Rev. Sarait Salva. Mr. Salva was a religious radio announcer in Radio Redentor of Utuado and Radio Felicidad of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
. WYIS was a radio station with diversity in its programming, including almost a whole day in Portuguese. Today WPHE is exclusively a Pentecostal radio station, although its leaders were affiliated with the Lancaster Conference of the Mennonite Church. They broke from the Conference to form Koinonia, an Anabaptist association of churches in Philadelphia. Rev. Salva and Evangelist Juan Carlos Izquierdo are well respected leaders among them.
Transmitter Coordinates 40°08′8.00"N 75°33′37.00"W