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JJZ back on terrestrial radio
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You are correct. I replied to another post regarding this. It is indeed Smooth Jazz JJZ from the HD-2.
Back in the golden days of WJJZ about 20 years ago, JJZ always performed very well in Trenton books. They should have a little fun with it and actually promote it up ... "Smooth Jazz is back in Trenton on 104.1. Smooth Jazz JJZ 104.1." I mean why not? What else is there to put on there? It might actually pick up a handful of loyal listeners. Grab a sponsor or two and pay for the electric bill.
Were you ever able to pick up that 104.1 translator in Haddon Heights? Regardless of HD sidebands, it seems like a stretch for a flea powered translator in Trenton to make it all the way down there.
Not a chance.
For those losing track of where WJJZ has been:
1993-2006: 106.1 Philly (now WISX)
2006-2008: 97.5 Burlington, NJ (now WPEN)
2013-2017: 1480 Philly (still WDAS even though they called it "JJZ")
2012-present: 106.1 WISX-HD2 Philly
2019-present: 104.1 W281BI Trenton
1993-2006: 106.1 Philly (now WISX)
2006-2008: 97.5 Burlington, NJ (now WPEN)
2013-2017: 1480 Philly (still WDAS even though they called it "JJZ")
2012-present: 106.1 WISX-HD2 Philly
2019-present: 104.1 W281BI Trenton
1460 AM: Mount Holly, NJ from the early 60's to the early 80's with a transmitter on Burlington Island when the license was revoked.
If I may add to your fine list there, Kev .....
In the 70's, around there, a 5000-watt daytime directional signed on 1460 from their city-of-license Mount Holly NJ.
The calls were WJJZ. This new facility broadcast from four towers from some sand-spit in the Delaware River. One of their nulls -- the northeast null -- was because of a WVOX New Rochelle NY. WVOX 1460 was essentially as NYC local and listed in the newspapers and road maps as such.
WOW, were WJJZ one tough 'male offspring of a female canine' to hear upion Queens near JFK. I caught them ONCE and only once.
So I couldn't tell you what their format was. All I heard, in a super-surreal null of semi-local WVOX 1460, was an ad for the Burlington County Times, or some newspaper with a similar name.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WIFI&service=AM&h=D
We DXed from near the 'r' in New York.
I'm fairly certain that the new 1460 / WIFI / Mount Holly broadcasts from a different tower site than originally.
Now this 1460 station is known as 'WIFI' -- taken after a previous Philly station (and a good one) on 92.5. In fact, oddly, I once casually HEARD this WIFI 1460 one sunrise / breakfast at a paint job in nearby St. Clair. They do send a bit of a signal tongue our way, north of Pottsville on the map.
Thanks for the history, Kev !
In the 70's, around there, a 5000-watt daytime directional signed on 1460 from their city-of-license Mount Holly NJ.
The calls were WJJZ. This new facility broadcast from four towers from some sand-spit in the Delaware River. One of their nulls -- the northeast null -- was because of a WVOX New Rochelle NY. WVOX 1460 was essentially as NYC local and listed in the newspapers and road maps as such.
WOW, were WJJZ one tough 'male offspring of a female canine' to hear upion Queens near JFK. I caught them ONCE and only once.
So I couldn't tell you what their format was. All I heard, in a super-surreal null of semi-local WVOX 1460, was an ad for the Burlington County Times, or some newspaper with a similar name.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WIFI&service=AM&h=D
We DXed from near the 'r' in New York.
I'm fairly certain that the new 1460 / WIFI / Mount Holly broadcasts from a different tower site than originally.
Now this 1460 station is known as 'WIFI' -- taken after a previous Philly station (and a good one) on 92.5. In fact, oddly, I once casually HEARD this WIFI 1460 one sunrise / breakfast at a paint job in nearby St. Clair. They do send a bit of a signal tongue our way, north of Pottsville on the map.
Thanks for the history, Kev !
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1460 WJJZ was silent for many years until it signed back on as WIFI with a stick and studio in Florence, NJ back in the early 90's. It was a mixture of Christian programming weekly and oldies on the weekends.
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