WNYM (970
AM) – branded "AM 970 The Answer" – is a commercial
radio station
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licensed
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to
, and serving the
New York metropolitan area
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. The station is owned by
Salem Media Group
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and programs a
conservative talk radio
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format
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. Its studios are shared with co-owned
WMCA WMCA may refer to:
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(570 AM) on
Broadway
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in
Lower Manhattan
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.
By day, WNYM is powered at 50,000
watt
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s, the maximum for U.S. AM stations. But at night, to avoid interference to other stations, WNYM reduces power to 5,000 watts. It uses a
directional antenna
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with a three-
tower array
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. The
transmitter
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is on Commerce Way in Hackensack, near
New Jersey Route 4
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and the
Hackensack River
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.
Programming
WNYM airs most of the general-market slate of the
Salem Radio Network
Salem Radio Network is a United States-based radio network that specializes in syndicated Christian political talk, music, and conservative secular news/talk programming. It is a division of the Salem Media Group.
Network information
Salem Ra ...
, including
Mike Gallagher,
Dennis Prager
Dennis Mark Prager (; born August 2, 1948) is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show ''The Dennis Prager Show''. In 2009, he co-founded PragerU, which creates five- ...
,
Sebastian Gorka
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,
Eric Metaxas
Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, ''Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery'' about William Wilberforce (2007), ''Bonhoeffer: P ...
,
Hugh Hewitt
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and
Brandon Tatum
Brandon Orlando Tatum is an American conservative political commentator, former police officer and former college football player.
Early life and education
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. Former ''
Saturday Night Live
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'' cast member
Joe Piscopo
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hosts WNYM's local morning
drive time
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show. Most hours begin with an update from
Townhall Radio News.
The station is the New York City-area
network affiliate
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of
Syracuse University
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football
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and
men's basketball broadcasts, produced by
Learfield
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. WNYM has also carried
New York Islanders
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broadcasts, produced by
Hofstra University
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-owned
WRHU
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in
Hempstead, New York
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. These are games which could not air over the Islanders' primary New York City radio affiliate,
WEPN-AM
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-
FM due to scheduling conflicts. The station previously shared New York City radio rights to the Islanders with
WFAN-AM-
FM during the
2016-17 and
2017-18 seasons.
WNYM was formerly the flagship station of
Seton Hall University
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men's basketball, and shared coverage of
St. John's University men's basketball with WMCA; both teams have moved their radio broadcasts to
streaming
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. WNYM has also aired
ESPN Radio
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-produced
NFL football and
MLB
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baseball games that, due to programming conflicts, are unable to be broadcast by WEPN-FM, the local ESPN Radio outlet.
History
Experimental broadcasts
![WAAT, Jersey City, New Jersey humorous cartoon (1923)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/WAAT%2C_Jersey_City%2C_New_Jersey_humorous_cartoon_%281923%29.gif)
Although FCC records list WNYM's "date first licensed" as August 1926, some station histories cite 1922 as its establishment date. A
temporary broadcasting station operated during that year by founder Frank V. Bremer.
Bremer had extensive experience as a radio operator and pioneering broadcaster, starting with his amateur station, 2IA, located at his home at 3613 Boulevard in
Jersey City, New Jersey
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of WAAT, for operation on the 360 meter "entertainment" wavelength, with the station continuing to broadcast out of Bremer's home. The temporary authorization only listed two days of operation, April 16 and 19, 1922. However, WAAT subsequently maintained a two-programs-a-week schedule for a number of months, finally ending the broadcasts in October.
["Jersey City's Radio Station Has Successful First Test", ''Jersey Journal'', August 30, 1926, page 11.]
Early years
![WAAT, Jersey City, New Jersey promotional advertisement (1926)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/WAAT%2C_Jersey_City%2C_New_Jersey_promotional_advertisement_%281926%29.gif)
Bremer returned to the broadcasting airwaves four years later, with a new station licensed on August 19, 1926, to the Bremer Broadcasting Corporation in Jersey City. It was assigned the sequentially issued call letters WKBD. WKBD began a series of test transmissions in late August, initially broadcasting from Bremer's store at 210 Jackson Avenue.
The next month Bremer was permitted to reclaim the call sign used in 1922, and the station was renamed WAAT. Its initial slogan was "The Voice At the Gate of the Golden State". A formal debut broadcast from studios at the Hotel Plaza in Jersey City was held on November 20, 1926.
WAAT began operations during a chaotic period when most government regulation had been suspended, and new stations were free to be set up with few restrictions, and could chose their own transmitting frequencies. Bremer initially squeezed WAAT onto the crowded New York area AM band using a non-standard frequency of 1275 kHz. Following the reestablishment of government control by the formation of the
Federal Radio Commission
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, on May 3, 1927, the station was moved to a more traditional frequency of 1270 kHz, which a month later was changed to 1220 kHz. In November 1928, the station moved to 1070 kHz, which was followed by a switch to 940 kHz in April 1930. Effective March 1941, under the provisions of the
North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, stations on 940 kHz were reassigned to 970 kHz, which has been the station's frequency ever since. In 1943, WAAT's main studio location was changed from Jersey City to Newark, New Jersey in the Hotel Douglas, later moving to the Mosque Theatre at 1020 Broad Street.
In 1947, Bremer launched an
FM station, WAAT-FM (94.7, now
WXBK
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), and the following year a sister television station, WATV, broadcasting on channel 13. In 1951 the stations were sold to Irving Rosenhaus. WAAT evolved to a
middle of the road music format by the 1950s, similar to what
WNEW,
WOR, and
WCBS were doing at that time.
In 1957, the WAAT/WATV operation was sold by Bremer to
National Telefilm Associates
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, which changed the station's call letters to WNTA. National Telefilm split up its holdings in 1961, with WNTA-TV (now
WNET
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) being sold to a New York City-based nonprofit educational group, and the WNTA radio stations going to Communications Industries Broadcasting. The new owners changed the call sign to WJRZ. The MOR format continued until September 15, 1965, when WJRZ became the first radio station in the New York metro area to play a
country music
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format around the clock. It was also the
flagship
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radio outlet for the
New York Mets
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from 1967 until 1971.
In 1968, the station established a new transmitter site in Hackensack, New Jersey, and changed its
community of license
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from Newark to Hackensack. A serious fire destroyed its studios located in a house on Hackensack Avenue in North Hackensack on October 17, 1970. The station operated out of a prefab building near the transmitter site for a period of time afterward.
Top 40 years
The station was put up for sale in the fall of 1970. Around that time, future sister station WMCA dropped
top 40
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for a
talk
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...
format, leaving
WABC as the only Top 40 radio station on the AM dial.
WJRZ was sold to Pacific and Southern Broadcasting (which merged with
Combined Communications
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in 1974) on January 6, 1971. The call letters were changed on May 16 of that year to WWDJ (known on the air as "97-DJ"), and the station attempted to take on WABC and replace WMCA as the New York market's second Top 40 outlet. For a brief time, program director Mark Driscoll began imaging the station as "9-J", giving rise to a recorded parody of the station called "Nine" produced by a group that included
disk jockey
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s
Howard Hoffman
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, Randy West, Pete Salant and Russ "Famous Amos" DiBello.
The station was hampered by a
directional signal that covered Manhattan and Northern New Jersey but suffered in the rest of the Five Boroughs and was virtually nonexistent on Long Island and western New Jersey. Eventually, FM competition from
WCBS-FM
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and adult top 40 station WXLO (now
WEPN-FM
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), and an evolution to adult Top 40 by
WNBC
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(now
WFAN
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), began to eat into WWDJ's ratings. In November 1973 it was ranked 15th in the Arbitron ratings.
Becoming a religious station (1974 - 1976)
By 1974, the station was losing money and unable to sell enough advertising. The studios were moved to the transmitter site. In the fall of 1973, the station began selling airtime to religious groups on weekends, which brought much-needed revenue for the station as it continued with Top 40 during weekdays into 1974. But as a result of the religious hours making money, WWDJ abruptly dropped the top 40 format on April 1, 1974, and switched to a
Christian radio
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format full time. Because the change took place on
April Fool's Day
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, many listeners thought the switch was some sort of joke.
Initially, WWDJ sold two-thirds of its daily airtime to outside ministries and played traditional Christian music the rest of the time, with the exception of a few hours on Saturdays devoted to a then-new genre,
contemporary Christian music
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. WWDJ was sold to Communicom Corporation of America in April 1978, about a year before Combined Communications' merger into the
Gannett Company
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. In the New York radio market, Salem already owned WMCA since 1989. Initially Salem retained WWDJ's studios on Main Street in Hackensack. As WMCA ran Christian talk and teaching programming, it was thought that WWDJ would move to Christian music full-time weekdays with specialty Christian programming on weekends. While this did not happen, WWDJ by the end of 1994 was playing music.
In the fall of 1995, the station abruptly changed formats. The station's teaching programming expanded, with music cut back to morning and afternoon drive time hours on weekdays and Saturdays afternoons. Most of the announcers were laid off and the station revamped the format to a rhythmic Christian music format. This employed
contemporary worship music
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,
gospel music
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and light contemporary Christian songs. WWDJ positioned itself as "The Sound of Praise and Celebration". George Flores was the only air-staffer retained and his afternoon show was pre-recorded. In 2002, local on-air personalities expanded Sylvia Lynn Pate and "Transitions with Sylvia Lynn" which was added to the weekday evening line-up. Pate was WWDJ's first African-American female on-air talent.
This format continued until 2004, when the music was dropped and WWDJ moved to a Christian brokered format. Around this time,
Pillar of Fire Church
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-owned
WAWZ
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(99.1 FM) in
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;Other
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...
dropped all but a few religious programs to play contemporary Christian music 18 hours a day, and Salem picked up many of the bumped shows; this caused Salem to decide to air programming full-time on WWDJ. For about two years, the station billed itself "WMCA II" all the time, with the WWDJ call letters used only in the hourly
station identification
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. The station's on-air identity reverted to "970 DJ" by 2007, but programming continued to be overflow programs from WMCA, as well as some syndicated mostly-secular personalities such as
Laura Schlessinger
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and Kevin McCullough. They also broadcast infomercials and church services, as well as 30- and 60-minute religious shows.
Becoming a talk station
On July 25, 2008, WWDJ swapped call signs with
a sister station in the Boston area and briefly became WTTT. It
stunted
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for several days with all-
Frank Sinatra
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("Frank 97 AM") programming, followed by a short stint of all-
Pat Boone
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("The Booner 970") music. On August 6, 2008, the station's call letters were changed to WNYM, a transfer of the call sign Salem had used on AM 1330 (now
WWRV
WWRV (1330 AM) is a Spanish-language Christian music and teaching station, licensed to New York City. It is owned by Radio Visión Cristiana Management.
History
For years 1330 was WEVD, named after the Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs. Ho ...
) since 1981. This change included adopting a conservative talk format.
"New York Gets More Talk"
August 6, 2008 (allaccess.com) It added Fox News Radio
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In 2003, ...
for its world and national newscasts.
John R. Gambling
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, for many years with 710 WOR, hosted a midday show on WNYM from April 2014 until September 2016. In January 2014, Joe Piscopo
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became WNYM's morning drive time
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host. The rest of the schedule on weekdays is from the Salem Radio Network
Salem Radio Network is a United States-based radio network that specializes in syndicated Christian political talk, music, and conservative secular news/talk programming. It is a division of the Salem Media Group.
Network information
Salem Ra ...
line up of conservative talk shows.
References
External links
*
FCC History Cards for WNYM
(covering WAAT / WNTA / WJRZ / WWDJ from 1927-1981)
{{New York Mets broadcasters
News and talk radio stations in the United States
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Hackensack, New Jersey
Radio stations established in 1926
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