WNJE

WNJE
City of license Flemington, New Jersey
Broadcast area Trenton, New Jersey
Branding "Your Station For Inspiration"
Frequency 1040 kHz
Format Commercial; Religious
Power 15,000 watts day
7,500 watts critical hours
1,500 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 28130
Transmitter coordinates 40°30′18.0″N 74°58′37.0″W / 40.505000°N 74.976944°W
Callsign meaning New Jersey's ESPN
Former callsigns WJHR (1987-2002)
WCHR (2002-08)
Owner Connoisseur Media
(Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC)
Webcast Listen Live
Website wchram.net

WNJE (1040 AM) is a religious radio station in Flemington, New Jersey serving Trenton, New Jersey which is owned and operated by Connoisseur Media, through licensee Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC.

Originally the station operated as WJHR ("Jersey Hometown Radio") with an adult contemporary format. It briefly broadcast a talk format called "Chat Radio" and had a short stint as an ESPN Radio affiliate before adopting the call letters and religious format of WCHR, which had been operating on 920 AM in Trenton, in 2002.

On January 3, 2008, Nassau Broadcasting Partners announced that 1040 would drop the religious format and switch to a full-time simulcast of New York City's WEPN.[1] Nassau moved the religious programming back to 920, which had been broadcasting as a Philadelphia-oriented ESPN Radio affiliate under the call letters WPHY.[2] On February 5, 2008, the station took the WNJE call sign.

On May 21, 2012 WNJE dropped the simulcast of WEPN and joined ESPN Deportes Radio; this came in advance of WEPN's own switch to ESPN Deportes Radio in September, after ESPN Radio took over the operations of WEPN-FM in April. WNJE was an ESPN Deportes Radio affiliate.

WNJE, along with nine other Nassau stations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by NB Broadcasting in May 2012. NB Broadcasting is controlled by Nassau's creditors — Goldman Sachs, Pluss Enterprises, and P.E. Capital.[3][4] In November, NB Broadcasting filed a motion to assign its rights to the stations to Connoisseur Media.[5]

On December 3, 2012 WNJE ended the simulcast with WEPN and entered into a simulcast with sister station WCHR Trenton, New Jersey, broadcasting the format of WCHR.

The sale to Connoisseur Media, at a price of $38.7 million, was consummated on May 29, 2013.

References

  1. ↑ "WEPN/New York LMAs NJ Station". Radio Ink. 2008-01-03. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  2. ↑ Wielgus, Jennifer (2008-01-08). "ESPN pulls plug on local station". Bucks County Courier Times. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
  3. ↑ "10 Nassau Stations Go To NB Broadcasting LLC". All Access. May 30, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  4. ↑ Pierce, David (June 12, 2012). "Pocono radio stations now in the hands of creditors". Pocono Record. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Connoisseur Moves To Assume Debtor's Bid To Buy 10 Nassau Stations, Including WPST". All Access. November 21, 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2012.

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