WLNG
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WLNG is an FM radio station at 92.1 in Sag Harbor, New York that has earned a legendary reputation as a throwback to an earlier era with its frequent use of jingles, frequent remote broadcasts at store openings and carnivals, and d.j.'s that still have personality.
The station's call letters come from Long Island.
The station's target market is the trendy Hamptons of Southampton (town), New York and East Hampton, New York as well as the North Fork, Suffolk County, New York. The emphasis on advertisements for the local Five and dime, delis and crafts stores have made it quite popular among the Bonackers (Hamptons locals). The station has extensive local news, broadcasts local football games and is famous for being the definitive source for weather information during major storms.
On July 17, 1996, the station was having a live remote at a carnival in Westhampton, New York when TWA Flight 800 fell out of the sky into the Atlantic Ocean nearby and the station was the first to break the news that something had happened.
The station is probably most famous for it using numerous jingles (many from the original PAMS jingle library) often back to back. Paul Sidney who has been with the station since it was founded in 1963 and started the jingle obsession was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine Talk of the Town article in 2002:
- We're the only station that when we say 'Here comes fourteen in a row' we're not talking about records.
WLNG also had an AM station at 1600. In 1996 the frequency was sold to WWRL so that it could increase its power. It is owned by Main Street Broadcasting Co., Inc. It broadcasts at 5.3 kw.
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AM stations: 690 | 960 | 1390 | 1570 1
FM stations: 88.3 | 89.9 | 91.3 | 92.1 | 92.9/96.9 | 95.3 | 96.1 | 98.5 | 101.7 | 102.5
103.9 | 104.7 2| 105.3 | 106.1 | 107.1
FM stations (Long Island Market): 90.1 | 97.5 | FM stations (Connecticut): 99.1 | 99.9 | 107.9
1: Though licenced to Riverhead, New York, station primarily targets and operates from Dix Hills, New York.
2: Though licenced to Montauk, New York, station primarily targets and operates from Connecticut.
