WTHA (88.1 FM) is a

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licensed to

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. The station is owned by Bux-Mont Educational Radio Association, and simulcasts the

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programming of WRDV in

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History

The station went on the air August 21, 1992, as WNJS-FM, a

station owned and operated by the

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. NJN's radio network began operation May 20, 1991, when WNJT-FM in Trenton signed on. Eight other stations would be established over the following seventeen years. On June 6, 2011, the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority agreed to sell five FM stations in southern New Jersey to WHYY, Inc. The transaction was announced by

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, as part of his long-term goal to end State-subsidized public broadcasting. WHYY assumed control of the stations through a management agreement on July 1, 2011, pending

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(FCC) approval for the acquisition; at that point, the stations began to carry the schedule of

WHYY-FM WHYY-FM (90.9 MHz, "91 FM") is a public radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its broadcast tower is located in the city's Roxborough section of the city at () while its studios and offices are located on Independence Ma ...

in Philadelphia. In March 2023, WHYY announced that it would sell WNJS-FM to the Bux-Mont Educational Radio Association, which owns WRDV, for $110,000. The sale was completed on June 15, 2023, and the WTHA call sign was assigned by the FCC on June 20.

References

External links

wrdv.org
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