* WDAS and WDI also collaborated with the in-house entertainment studios at Disneyland, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Tokyo DisneySea to develop the nighttime Fantasmic!

The show was briefly revived in 2005 on WDAS, after that station dropped Tom Joyner from its schedule.

WDAS used to feature the Tom Joyner Morning Show, until WRNB won the rights to the syndicated morning show.

While he was teaching, he moonlighted at the old WDAS studios on Edgley Drive in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, working for free and later, for minimum wage.

WDAS broadcasts at an effective radiated power of 16, 500 watts ( 16. 5 kilowatts ( kW )) from a class B signal, from a tower located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

Venerable folk music host Gene Shay also did his program from WDAS at this time.

WDAS ' rising success paralleled the red-hot popularity of the new R & B sound developed at Philadelphia International Records.

Until September 2008, WISX continued to broadcast the smooth jazz format on its HD2 station, and on an internet stream from its website, but eventually, the smooth jazz format was dropped in favor of Tropical ( a simulcast of WDAS, which currently broadcasts at 1480 AM ).

From age 12 Burke became a pastor of the congregation, and also appeared for 15 minutes each week ( later expanded to 30 minutes ) on WDAS ( then 1400 AM ) with Randy Dixon, the African-American host of " Ebony Hall of Fame.

Butler was dubbed the " Iceman " by WDAS Philadelphia disc jockey, Georgie Woods, while performing in a Philadelphia theater.

Clear Channel Radio's WDAS-FM, WDAS, WUSL, WRFF, WISX, and WIOQ FM stations are located on Presidential Boulevard, as is independently owned WBEB.

In 2009, WDAS produced their first animated Christmas special, the CGI Prep & Landing for the self-owned over-the-air television entity, ABC.

Pioneer staff have appeared on radio shows across the country, such as KLUV987-CBS Radio Dallas, the Larry Elder Show, America's Radio News-Nationally Syndicated, AKTINA FM on WNYE, 91. 5 New York City, WSBA-York, PA, WCIT-Lima, OH, KONK AM-Key West, FL, Kansas State Radio Network, Jiggy Jaguar Show-Nationally Syndicated, WNEW-AM 1580 CBS Radio Washington, WCBQ-AM 1340 Oxford, North Carolina, WHNC-AM 890 Raleigh, North Carolina, KMED-Medford, OR, WDAS FM-Philadelphia, KGAB 650AM-Cheyenne, WY, Talk Radio Network-Mancow-Nationally Syndicated, KSFO-San Francisco, CA, Point Of View-Nationally Syndicated in 43 states, KUT Austin, New Hampshire NPR ’ s StateImpact, and IRN Radio-News and Views-Nationally Syndicated in the top 127 markets.

Woods came to Philadelphia from New York in 1953 and began broadcasting from AM stations such as WDAS and WHAT.

In 1963, Woods and WDAS radio station General manager Bob Klein chartered buses to take people down to the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, D. C. ( subsequently famous for its " I Have a Dream " speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr .) and had asked a young Ed Bradley, who later went on to be a well-known CBS correspondent, to be a bus captain.

In 1995, when WDAS came under common ownership when Evergreen Media would purchase them, WUSL relinquished its urban format to the current mainstream approach.

Morrill and Upshur continue to host shows and broadcast news and traffic on other Clear Channel stations ( WDAS, WISX and WIOQ ) as programming changes have forced public affairs shows from Power 99 to those other stations.

After the Chancellor acquisition, WIOQ became co-owned with 104. 5 FM ( now WRFF ), WDAS, WDAS-FM, WUSL, and WJJZ ( now WISX ).

The main competitor of WDAS in the Philadelphia market is WRNB.

WDAS is the current Philadelphia affiliate for the competing Steve Harvey Morning Show.

WDAS is owned by Clear Channel Communications.

In Philadelphia's African American community, WDAS is the FM equivalent to the perennially popular KYW Newsradio 1060.

Widely regarded as the originator of the Urban Adult Contemporary format which it plays today, WDAS continues to occupy its roost amongst the 3 top radio stations in the Delaware Valley as of December 2005 Arbitron ratings,.

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* Presto, a Computer Animation system used by Pixar Animation Studios

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