WVNJ
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| WVNJ | |
| City of license | Oakland, New Jersey, U.S. |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Bergen County, New Jersey New York City metro area |
| Branding | The Voice |
| Frequency | 1160 kHz |
| First air date | 1993 |
| Format | Talk radio |
| Power | 20,000 Watts (day) 2,500 Watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 68956 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Owner | Universal Broadcasting of New York, Inc. |
| Sister stations | WTHE |
| Webcast | webcast at mainstreamnetwork.com |
| Website | www.wvnj.com |
WVNJ (1160 AM "The Voice") is radio station licensed to Oakland, New Jersey, serving Bergen County, New Jersey and parts of the New York City metropolitan area. The station employs a brokered programming format and is owned by Universal Broadcasting headed by Miriam Warshaw. This station is in no way affiliated with Universal, MCA, or NBC.
The programming on WVNJ is a blend of talk shows, infomercials, and special programming. The station also plays adult standards several hours a week on the weekend.
Contents |
[edit] Previous use of the WVNJ call sign
The WVNJ calls were previously used on an AM station licensed to Newark, New Jersey operating on AM 620 from the 1948 until 1983. That station played adult standards as well until it was sold in 1983. That station became a Spanish language station WSKQ in 1983, a Sports station in 1996, and a brokered station by 2003 known today as WSNR. The previous WVNJ was also co-owned with an FM station on 100.3 known as WVNJ-FM. That station played Beautiful Music. They were also sold in 1983 and became a CHR station as WHTZ/Z100 which they still are today. 1160 WVNJ is not and never was in any way affiliated with the previous stations using these calls.
[edit] History
 |
This section does not cite any references or sources. (February 2008) Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. |
WVNJ began operation on AM 1160 in December of 1993. The station initially offered an oldies format featuring mostly R & B music from 1955 to 1974. The format did not do well and in January of 1996 WVNJ flipped to an adult standards format featuring the music of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mills Brothers, Peggy Lee, Tommy Dorsey, Ray Charles, Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Mathis, Bing Crosby, McGuire Sisters, Bobby Darin, Perry Como, Glenn Miller, Sammy Davis Jr., and many others. The station stayed away from baby boomer pop with the exception of quazi-rock and roll artists like Ray Charles. The station became known as "The Station Of The Stars".
The station also added legendary former 1130 WNEW air personalities such as Ted Brown, Jim Lowe, Jim Harlan, Mike Prelee, Mike Myers & Bobby Ryan. Bill Gaghan was the PD during Ted Brown's tenure. Throughout 1996, 1997, and 1998 the station was very profitable but ratings were modest at best. With WQEW leaving the format after Christmas of 1998, it was hoped that WVNJ would pick up some of their advertisers and ratings. But Adult Standards became a tough format to sell in 1999. WVNJ was losing sponsors throughout 1999. At that point, WVNJ began automating evenings and overnights.
In 2002, WVNJ began selling blocks of evening time as well as blocks of weekend time to specialty programmers as well as for infomercials. By 2003, WVNJ added more infomercials to middays during the week as well in order to turn a profit. By 2006, WVNJ was down to only a few hours of music per week.
[edit] WVNJ "The Voice"
 |
This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can (February 2008). |
Starting in late 2006, WVNJ became " The Voice", when the format first began the station remained playing music.also more talk shows and infomericals were added as well.WVNJ began to lose the standards music and added more talk and infomericals. furthermore in 2007 WVNJ added its first talk morning show called "The Voice In The Morning" with Gary O'Neill and Kathleen Maloney of (WINS-AM]). The show was canceled in early November 2007 and replaced in January 2008 by another local morning show. The new morning show is a talk show hosted by Sam Greenfield( formerly of WEVD and WWRL) and long time WVNJ announcer Pete Buckey. The show airs 7:00-9:00am. WVNJ-am airs mostly health and money talk shows from the business talk radio network throughout the day and night. The only standard/big band show left is syndicated Big Band Jump, which airs 3pm-5pm Sundays. WVNJ is rarely in the local ratings and is the only Bergen County full time am station.[citation needed] It can be heard during the day and night in North Jersey, Rockland County, New York, Westchester County, New York and New York City in some areas.
[edit] References
- About WVNJ. WVNJ - 1160 AM. Retrieved on 2008-02-21.
