WUNA (1480 AM) is a radio station licensed to Ocoee, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area. The station is currently owned by Jesús and Virgen Torrado, through licensee J & V Communications Inc. and airs programming in Haitian Creole branded as "Radio Haiti Tropical". The studios and transmitter site are located on Bluford Avenue in Ocoee. History The religion years On January 25, 1961, the Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit for a new daytime-only radio station on 1480 kHz, licensed to Windermere, to the Windermere Radio Company, owned by Atlanta preacher Louis E. Latham and Jack L. Gibson. The permit was granted the call letters WYNZ, but after Gibson dropped out of the permittee, Latham selected the call letters WXIV and began broadcasting in October 1961. However, Latham did not own the station for long. In 1962, a sale to Thomas H. Moffit fell through; this failed transaction prompted Moffit to build his own station, WTLN (1520 AM). The next year, a sale to American Homes Stations, Inc., was consummated; the group included two WXIV employees. American Homes attempted to move the transmitter site and upgrade to 5 kW; this would be denied in 1967, but a call sign change to WVCF did take place on December 22, 1965. Under both sets of call letters, the station aired primarily religious programming. An FM outlet, Orlando-licensed WWQS (105.1 FM), launched in August 1967. Two years later, the station was involved in another failed sales attempt when UNICOM Stations filed to buy WVCF and WWQS; UNICOM, affiliated with religious program distributor United Communications Mission, planned new $500,000 studio facilities for the pair. However, the FCC dismissed the sale application in November 1970 for failure to prosecute. American Homes sold off WWQS to Rounsaville Radio in 1973, retaining WVCF. The next year, it filed to move WVCF from Windermere to a new site in Ocoee, which was approved in 1975; the city of license changed two years later. In 1979, WVCF was purchased for $250,000 by James S. Beattie (Orlando Broadcasting), owner of two other AM radio stations in Florida and who harbored ambitions to build a religious radio network across the state. Beattie owned the station until 1983, selling it for $400,000 to William A. Masi. Under the name Metro-Orlando Broadcasting, Masi promised a more musically driven religious format. Going Spanish In 1989, Efraín Archilla Roig of Tampa, owner