[map] [bird's eye] [street view] Across Tullis Drive from the Lakewood Country Club.
1280 was originally WDSU, a high-class NBC radio affiliate with an adult sound. WDSU TV 6 was brone from this AM -- as the South's first TV station in 1948. This station also spawned WDSU FM 93.3. In the early 70's, TV and radio were sold seperately and the AM became WGSO (Gulf SOuth radio). The format became news and talk with some music. For a while, the station became more music oriented (with drive-time news blocks) and WGSO came to mean "Gentle SOund". WWL finally beat out WGSO in the late 80's, thanks in part to a superior signal. By then, the FM had gone to a black sound, so 1280 went to the black oldies "Heart and Soul" format as WMKJ (Magic 1280). Later it became WQUE AM as essentially a simulcast of the FM counterpart; also the station was all-sports briefly. In the mid-90's there was a brief attempt at news and talk as WODT (for a New Orleans street-slang expression, "Who dat?") The station later went to all blues, but in November 2003 switched to sports talk. After Hurricane Katrina knocked the station off for several days, they came back doing news and talk for a while until things got more under control in the city, then moved back to sports. In June 2008 Clear Channel flipped the station to gospel, to complement WYLD at 940. The station became an ESPN Deportes affiliate in September 2012. In September 2014 it moved back to English programming with Fox Sports.