Early years The station's news director is
Luis Penchi, a
Ponce-born radio journalist with over 30 years of broadcast experience. Upon being hired by WSKN, he transferred his highly rated Saturday-morning news programming from WIAC, the Radio Puerto Rico network. The programming included a weekly political debate panel with former Senate President
Kenneth McClintock, Senate PDP Minority Leader
José Luis Dalmau and
Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano (MINH) leader, Dr.
Héctor Pesquera, and the "Luis Penchi Entrevista" 90-minute news interview program. During the week, Penchi attracted many of the islands' top political analysts to its programming, including attorneys
Benny Frankie Cerezo,
Carlos Gallisá and Ignacio Rivera, as well as businessman-turned-political-figure Adolfo Krans, the former First Spouse during his former wife
Sila Calderón's gubernatorial administration. As a result, the station has been able to attract many of Puerto Rico's political 'cognoscenti' to its audience.
Recent news On December 1, 2009, Penchi resigned from the position of news director, and news reporter Julio Rivera Saniel was named to replace him. Rivera Saniel had previously worked at
WKAQ 580, and still works as a reporter on
WAPA TV's weekday newscasts (
Noticentro Edición Estelar). On November 1, 2013 Jonathan Lebrón Ayala was named news director after Rivera Saniel resigned to the position he previously held from 2009. Lebrón Ayala is a young news reporter that was the multimedia editor of
Metro in Puerto Rico, a daily free newspaper owned by Metro International. Also has worked with WKAQ, a Univision Radio Puerto Rico station and with
El Nuevo Dia a newspaper owned by the Ferré Rangel family. Rivera Saniel would stay in WSKN with two new shows and still works on WAPA-TV newscasts. ==Ownership==