Another AM Radio Station signs off Townsquare Media has shut down 920 AM WNJE Trenton New Jersey.
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When your tower site is 13 acres of desirable land adjacent to I-95 in Yardley worth tens of millions of dollars (which your station owner sold off years ago) and you're an AM running 24/7 syndication with low revenue this is bound to happen.
FCC filing: "As previously reported to the Commission, station WNJE(AM) has been operating nondirectionally at night at 25 percent of licensed power due to an issue with the nighttime antenna system. Licensee has worked diligently to return the station to licensed operations but has encountered repeated obstacles, including various mechanical problems and vandalism at the site. Licensee is evaluating next steps. In the interim, due to economic conditions in the market, licensee plans to take the station off the air on December 31, 2023 and respectfully requests special temporary authority for the station to remain silent. The licensee will promptly notify the Commission when it is able to resume station operations."
weren't they WTTM years back with a WIP type format and co owned with religious 94.5 WCHR, with 50kw using the second tower for their 5 bay....
WTTM AM 920 and WCHR FM 94.5 were owned by Great Scott Broadcasting, Inc the FM did have their Transmitter at the AM site.
920 was arguably the worst of the three AM regional signals licensed to Trenton. Much as the other two existed for the longest while -- might still do -- with the towers up the Delaware, 920, 1260 and 1300, sent their lobes at Trenton proper, and then past that into ...... not much else aside from pine trees, some swamps, and Fort Fix.
Moreover, none of the three was present in any respectable form either toward Philly or NYC.
I doubt that 920 Trenton will return. I'm sort of going to miss them. I still have stubs from concert tickets I won without even entering a station contest. I merely called to ask the title of a Vogues song they had played during 45 minutes or so of Vogues records they featured one afternoon. When they were a Country station !!
Moreover, none of the three was present in any respectable form either toward Philly or NYC.
I doubt that 920 Trenton will return. I'm sort of going to miss them. I still have stubs from concert tickets I won without even entering a station contest. I merely called to ask the title of a Vogues song they had played during 45 minutes or so of Vogues records they featured one afternoon. When they were a Country station !!
I thought WTTM was 1680. I know they were AM Stereo and were an Asian format.
Callsigns get reused, you know.
The current WTTM is on 1680, but it has no direct connection to the prior WTTM on 920.
Slogan of the City: Trenton Makes – The World Takes - TrentonDaily
For most Trentonians, it is impossible to go a day without seeing the iconic Lower-Trenton Bridge spanning across the Delaware River and its glowing sign emphasizing the slogan, "Trenton Makes - The World Takes". The sign, which has seen four renditions and multiple restorations, has become a...
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JERSEY STRONG !
I didn't even know there was a WTTM under different ownership on 920.
1680 was the expanded band replacement for 1350 WHWH Princeton and later moved south into the Philadelphia market.
When 920, 1350, and 1680 were all owned by Nassau in the late 90s, the format shuffle that saw 94.5 WCHR become WNJO had the WCHR calls and format moved to 920 and WTTM calls placed on 1680.
Here's Chester, PA's version of the Trenton slogan, visible from trains passing through Chester, and across the street IIRC from the downtown station. The billboard came down in the '70s IIRC.Slogan of the City: Trenton Makes – The World Takes - TrentonDaily
For most Trentonians, it is impossible to go a day without seeing the iconic Lower-Trenton Bridge spanning across the Delaware River and its glowing sign emphasizing the slogan, "Trenton Makes - The World Takes". The sign, which has seen four renditions and multiple restorations, has become a...
JERSEY STRONG !
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Indeed it did...
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And it would target a 55 plus demographic not much money to be generated when going after that demographic
but like many stations that were supposed to be replaced by an expanded band station the original station stayed on the air
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