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WNJC (1360 AM) was a
radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...
broadcasting variety and
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. Licensed to Washington Township, New Jersey, it served the southeastern portions of the
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radio market (due to
WPAZ WPAZ (1370 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station owned by the Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation. Licensed to Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States, it serves Reading and the northwestern portions of the greater Philadelphia area ( ...
, which covers the northwestern portions of the metro at 1370), and was owned by Forsythe Broadcasting, LLC.


History

The station originally bore the
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WWBZ and was licensed to
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. WWBZ operated from 1946 to 1989, then went silent. On September 1, 1990, it moved to, and petitioned to change its
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to Washington Township and returned to the air as WVSJ ("Voice of South Jersey"), carrying mostly talk programming. WVSJ was one of the first Philadelphia-area stations to carry
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on weekdays, but lost rights to the program when it was picked up by
WWDB WWDB (860 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its studios and offices in the "555 Building" on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and broadcasts ...
. In 1992, the station adopted a
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format and became WNJC ("New Jersey Country"), shifted to
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programming by 1994, then evolved into a brokered format. In 1994, the station was purchased by radio engineer Michael Venditti and his partner John Forsythe to create Forsythe Broadcasting, LLC. Michael Venditti died of cancer in April 1998 and his wife Joan took over as partner. In 2004 Duke Hamann was hired as the station Engineer. The studio was located on 1893 Hurffville Rd. in Deptford from 1994 till 2005. In November 2005, the station moved to 123 Egg Harbor Rd. in Washington Township, where it remained until May 2017. In June 2017, the station was rescued from going dark by Duke Hamann, Antonio Muniz and Javier Machorro. The studio was relocated to
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then moved to Camden two years later. The station was marketed as a
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station. Spanish-language during the daytime hours and followed by English-language "Today's Hits & Yesterday's favorites" along with brokered programming. In 2023, WNJC lost its
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lease; its programming remained available through its web site. The
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cancelled the station’s license on May 16, 2024.


References


External links


Official website
Radio stations established in 1946 1946 establishments in New Jersey Radio stations disestablished in 2024 2024 disestablishments in New Jersey NJC Defunct radio stations in the United States NJC {{NewJersey-radio-station-stub