WRNJ?

[qtpieislit]

Why does 1510/WRNJ have 92.7 and 104.7 on their web site? And for a little flee bite AM they sure have a full service staff.

 

[djdalanj69]

Is'nt that AMAZING that they have a " FULL SERVICE " Staff for that Station and look how WMTR ended up. They are now a " NO SERVICE " ONE person on staff station. I guess they (WMTR) still needed to keep their PD to put the station in automation after his show ends at 10:00 AM.

 

[rygert]

Why does 1510/WRNJ have 92.7 and 104.7 on their web site? And for a little flee bite AM they sure have a full service staff.

The FCC has started allowing some AM stations to re-broadcast on FM translators, and 1510 WRNJ is now airing its signal on the 104.7 (Hackettstown) and 92.7 (Washington) translators. These translators have been owned by WRNJ for years, dating back to the time when WRNJ owned 107.1 in Belvidere. Until recently both translators had been re-broadcasting the jazz format from WBGO in Newark.

 

[TomNote]

Russ Long freakin' ROCKS that station in the mornings.

Idiotic jerk of a traffic reporter he's saddled with, though....

 

[Radio411]

Russ Long freakin' ROCKS that station in the mornings.

Idiotic jerk of a traffic reporter he's saddled with, though....

Wow you are just ooozing with character and charm!!! People of your professional-caliber are destined for SUCCESS :

Not sure what the "axe" is with Tom but he is the quintessential "traffic reporter" in terms of talent and personality. Typically one is NOT accompanied by the other. Apparently the standards at Shadow Traffic has eased in recent years. There was a time when everyone of their staffers were professional and smooth...much like Tom. To each their own I suppose. Russ and Tom are a good match especially on a locally-owned station where the time/programming constraints are looser than the bigger markets.

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[FrankThomas]

Hate to say it, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with Sherpat here. That WRNJ traffic reporter guy is nothing but trouble. ;D

 

[djdalanj69]

I guess that was the same reason "Annoying" as to your downfall on NJ 101.5. ???

 

[FrankThomas]

I guess that was the same reason "Annoying" as to your downfall on NJ 101.5. ???

You seem a tad confused. That may be because there is one minor detail that you are overlooking in regard to Sherpat's post, which would explain everything. I'll leave that for you to discover, and simply say, "Thanks for listening!" (BTW, I'm still standing at 101.5.)

Regarding WRNJ... as late as the mid 90s, when I worked there, the station had quite a presence in the local community, and a solid airstaff. When I was there, 107.1 and the translators were running a country format (I remember VT'ing the weather forecasts on weekends).

IIRC, there was also a short-lived WRNJ-TV (not sure what became of that or if those were the actual calls).

Frank

 

[tom]

Historical Note:

The WRNJ call letters were originally on a station in Atlantic City
on 95.1 megacycles, running 5000 watts from the roof of the Ritz Carlton Hotel.

Locals and people who worked there called it "Wringe"

It morphed into an elevator music station called "Wave" with the
call letters WAYV ... then became Disco 95 ... the rest is history.

 

[MikeF]

Here's the history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRNJ

and of 95.1's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAYV

 

[amfmsw]

Missing info is that Saddle River Holdings also bought WKTU in Ocean City, and WRAN was the sister station in North Jersey. Saddler River Holdings was a subsidiary of Orange & Rockland Electric Company. It's South Jersey investment was held by the licensee of Atlantic-Morris Broadcasting, also it's company. The name from the two home counties of the stations (we tried to tell them WKTU was in Cape May County, but it wasn't as impressive).

We also urged them to persue a Hardship CP ready to be filed moving WKTU to the then empty 98.5 @ 450', and raise power to a B-1 25kw. CBS was willing to aid us in the expense so that WCAU-FM could again reach the shore. We were treated like country bumpkins who had no clue. At least I was. Here's your money boy, now go away.

OOPS!

 

[amfmsw]

To avoid any confusion, "WKTU" referred to earlier was, at that time, WDVR. It's now WTKU after Howard Green sold those calls back to NYC. The engineer who worked on the 98.5 B-1 CP was Ted Dowling, who got 102.7 assigned to Petersburg, NJ.

 

[Bob Farrow]

I had a buddy or two who worked at WRNJ way back... Geoff Freeman and Tommy John come to mind. You called it "wringe"? We called it "run-gee radio"! Back in the day...........

 

[ptmph]

Regarding WRNJ... as late as the mid 90s, when I worked there, the station had quite a presence in the local community, and a solid airstaff. When I was there, 107.1 and the translators were running a country format (I remember VT'ing the weather forecasts on weekends).

IIRC, there was also a short-lived WRNJ-TV (not sure what became of that or if those were the actual calls).

Frank

The station still has a strong presence in the local community and although they've shied away from their oldies format, the local talk personalities still make it a prominent presence in the area.

BTW-I too worked at WRNJ in the mid-90's back in the days of Carrie Lee in the mid-afternoons, when they transitioned from 1000 am to 1510 am . If you're the Frank Thomas I remember, you used to work weekends. I too remember the WRNJ-TV station. It was a low-powered station on channel 6 that didn't broadcast anything.

 

[FrankThomas]

I too worked at WRNJ in the mid-90's back in the days of Carrie Lee in the mid-afternoons, when they transitioned from 1000 am to 1510 am . If you're the Frank Thomas I remember, you used to work weekends.

Yep, that was me.

Where is Carrie Lee these days? I haven't heard her name in years. I do know that she had also been doing a bit of voiceover work. Great voice IMO.

 

[Band-Scanner]

Country 107 /WRNJ-FM had a very convoluted start. The 1st Transmitter site was in Pa. somewhere and was nothing but multipath almost everywhere. They even opened a sales office & news studio in the COL, Belvidere but never moved in because it was right across the street from the firehouse with a very LOUD siren. They then moved the transmitter to a mountain in Oxford NJ and Country 107 was now a Washington signal! Once again opening a small office/studio in Washington that was minimally staffed. Management realized they could go to a site that would cover the Poconos, Slate Belt & part of the Lehigh Valley. Which they did on the AT&T tower right up the hill from WSBG. With the reduction in Washington coverage 92.7 translator was put on the air to cover Washington. To cover Hackettstown they put 104.7 on the air...original site was on a tower adjacent to WNTI's tower in Independence Township. Oh yes another sales office/news studio opened in a shopping center in PA....soon followed by yet another office/'news studio in downtown Stroudsburg! The station did reasonably well in the format but when "Cat Country 96" hit the airwaves it was all over. Big city bought WRNJ flipped the calls to WWYY and was part of the quadcast with Long Branch, Westchester county & the Hamptons. The translators were off for a while but did indeed start relaying WBGO out of Newark. The 104.7 translator site was moved to Mt. Olive Township on Route 46 where it is today. 92.7 stayed put. The FCC is allowing some stations to do this.

And the LPTV station..?: Never really did anything with it...donated it to Centenary College

now you know way more than you probably should !