WDEL (1150 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Wilmington, Delaware, airing a news/talk radio format. Its programming is simulcast on co-owned station 101.7 WDEL-FM. WDEL broadcasts at 5,000 watts using a directional antenna, with its transmitter, studios and offices located on Shipley Road in Wilmington. As of May 20, 2019, WDEL is owned by Forever Media. Previously, it had been owned for more than 80 years by Delmarva Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Steinman Enterprises, a family-owned newspaper, broadcasting and mining company, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Programming and Sports On weekdays, WDEL-AM-FM airs local talk and information shows from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. After 7 o'clock, it carries nationally syndicated talk shows, including Dave Ramsey, Jim Bohannon, Red Eye Radio and America in the Morning. On weekends, WDEL-AM-FM airs shows devoted to money, sports, real estate, home repair, gardening and religion, including some paid brokered programming. Syndicated programming on weekends includes Clark Howard, Ric Edelman and Motley Fool. World and national news is supplied by CBS News Radio. WDEL-AM-FM carries Philadelphia Phillies baseball, Philadelphia Eagles football, plus other local and national sports. WDEL-AM-FM airs Wesley College football and numerous New Castle County high school football and basketball games. On weekends, WDEL-AM-FM also carries some sports programming from the SportsMap Radio Network. History WDEL was first licensed in July 1922 to the Wilmington Electrical Specialty Company, and was initially issued the sequentially assigned call letters WHAV. It made its debut broadcast on July 22 as one of the earliest broadcasting stations licensed in the United States, and the first in the state of Delaware. In 1926 the call letters were changed to WDEL. Founded by Willard S. Wilson, the station was originally only powered at 250 watts, but by the late 1940s, it had been granted an increase to its current power of 5,000 watts. During the Golden Age of Radio, WDEL was an NBC Red Network affiliate, carrying its dramas, comedies, sports, news, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts. For a time in the 1940s, WDEL was co-owned with another early AM station licensed to Wilmington, WILM. While WDEL carried NBC Red Network programs, WILM aired shows from the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) and the Mutual Broadcasting System. In 1949, WDEL signed on a TV station, Channel 7 WDEL-TV. Because WDEL had been a long-time NBC radio affiliate, WDEL-TV became an NBC-TV network affiliate.