1979 Sale To Unity Broadcasting
Leon sold the station in November 1979 to the minority-owned Unity Broadcasting Network. In the 1980s, WDAS added the National Black Network (NBN) news, and tried a news format in the mornings (anchored locally by Karen Warrington, E. Steven Collins and Wynne Alexander) and afternoons (via the NBN feed) to compete with KYW-AM. This was unsuccessful, and the station returned with a mix of gospel, R&B and talk shows. In 1988, the station switched to a full-time gospel music and religious format.
Beasley Broadcasting purchased WDAS and WDAS-FM in 1994. Two years later, the station was sold to Evergreen Media, which soon merged with Chancellor Broadcasting (later AMFM Inc.). In August 2000, after a series of mergers, the two stations would become properties of Clear Channel Communications.
On May 16, 2007, WDAS and the all-gospel format ended when sister station "Rumba 104.5" moved its programming and WUBA call sign to 1480 AM (104.5 would flip to modern rock). The WDAS calls were officially retired on 1480 AM on May 23, 2007. WUBA served as the Spanish language flagship radio station of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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