WNSW

WNSW
City	Newark, New Jersey
Broadcast area	New York Metropolitan area
Branding	Relevant Radio
Slogan	Talk radio for Catholic life
Frequency	1430 kHz
First air date	1947
Format	Catholic radio
Language(s)	English
Power	10,000 watts (day) 7,000 watts (night)
Class	B
Facility ID	73322
Transmitter coordinates	40°50′59″N 74°10′59″W / 40.84972°N 74.18306°W / 40.84972; -74.18306
Former callsigns	WNJR (?-1999)^[1]
Affiliations	Relevant Radio (2014-)
Owner	Relevant Radio (Starboard Media Foundation, Inc.)
Website	www.relevantradio.com

WNSW (1430 AM) is a Religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, serving the New York Metropolitan area. Since 2014, the station has been owned and operated by Starboard Broadcasting's Relevant Radio Roman Catholic radio network.

History

WNJR

WNJR was a commercial station, under the call letters WBYN, first located at 91 Halsey Street in Newark, with a transmitter power output (TPO) of 5000 watts. In 1946, The Newark Sunday Call purchased WBYN from the FCC. At the time, the The Newark Sunday Call was being purchased by the Newark Evening News. In 1947, the station changed its callsign to WNJR and its ownership to North Jersey Radio. Ahead of its time, it first aired an unsuccessful all-news format. The station diversified its programming, running Jazz blocks, R & B music, talk shows, and Latin music. The Newark Evening News owned WNJR until 1953, when Rollins Broadcasting bought the station. As Newark's population became increasingly African-American in the 1960s, WNJR evolved into an R&B Music format full-time. Some of the jocks included Hal Wade, Danny Stiles, Bobby Jay, Hal Jackson, and others. In 1967, Rollins Broadcasting, after a dispute with its air staff, restructured into Continental Broadcasting.During the 1950s and 1960s the station featured some of the earliest rock and roll programming in the New York area, including the first claim to airing Alan Freed in that region. Despite claiming to be based in Newark, from the late 1950s through the 1970s the station broadcast from a studio at 1700 Union Avenue in Union. The station's two 344-foot (105 m) guyed broadcast towers were well-known to residents of the newly developed College Estates section of Union. WNJR suffered from poor nighttime signal coverage due to its FCC mandated directional antenna signal pattern. Additionally the station's antenna system's capacity hat design radiated too much signal skyward and not enough toward the ground where listeners reside. This caused signal cancellation and fading. Co-channel interference also limited its nighttime coverage ..

As Newark (its home city) became predominantly African-American during the 1970s, WNJR switched to a black-oriented music and news format. In 1973, it became the flagship station of Unity Broadcasting's National Black Network (NBN).

City of Newark/urban era

In 1968 The FCC refused to renew Continental Broadcasting's license but pending an appeal they still continued to run WNJR which was profitable. The Soul format continued as well. In July 1971 Continental Broadcasting's license was officially revoked and the station was forced off the air on the 21st. The FCC though allowed the city of Newark to run the station and it signed back on a week later.

Financial problems

WNJR continued with an Urban Contemporary format and became the flagship station of Unity Broadcasting's National Black Network (Now Sheridan Broadcasting's American Urban Radio Networks) in 1973. WNJR subsequently evolved into more of an Urban AC format by 1978. Also, the station played Gospel music and sermons on Sunday mornings and evenings. In 1982, Sound Radio received the WNJR license. The format stayed much the same. Initially the station was profitable but by 1988, it began to lose money as its core audience switched to New York City's two FM Urban powerhouses, WBLS and WRKS (98.7 Kiss FM). In 1989, Sound Radio filed Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.

Brokered days

In 1991 American Radio Associates bought the station and attempted to keep the Urban AC format. But they too had financial problems and sold the station to Douglas Broadcasting in 1992. At that point the station dropped its Urban AC format in favor of Gospel music mornings and late afternoons, ethnic brokered shows mid-days and nights, and Gospel music and teaching on Sundays.

In 1995, Multicultural Broadcasting bought 1430 WNJR and shifted the station to include more Asian shows. They kept some Gospel music programming on Sundays. The station was then profitable.

Sunny 1430 era

After WQEW in New York City became Radio Disney in late 1998, WNJR began playing adult standards. Julius LaRosa was the morning host, while Johnny Michaels hosted during the afternoon.^[2] In March 1999, Multicultural decided to fill the hole and put a Standards format on 1430. WNJR changed its callsign to WNSW June 8, 1999.^[1] The station became known as "Sunny 1430". They originally planned to switch to this format full-time except for Sunday mornings, but initially would run this format from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to Midnight Saturdays and not at all on Sundays. The rest of the time they ran ethnic programming that was brokered. On Sundays they played Gospel Music and preaching.

During the week though they played a Standards format with artists like Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Petula Clark, Tony Bennett, Tommy Dorsey, Peggy Lee, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, The Carpenters, Jack Jones, Tom Jones, the Andrews Sisters, Bobby Darin, James Taylor, the Four Aces, Johnny Mathis, Artie Shaw, The Righteous Brothers, etc. The format was similar to 1560 WQEW's old format. They mixed in baby boomer pop in moderation. Still they focused on the standards. Some of the airpeople included Johnny Knox (who was program director and operations manager the first year of operation), John Von Soosten, Chuck Leonard, Danny Stiles, Julius LaRosa, among others.

Standards' demise

It was decided that once advertising grew enough to support Standards that they would drop the weekend brokered shows that were still the main source of revenue for WNSW. This never happened. The station was unable to sell even a moderate amount of commercial time but held on to the format during daytime in the week and Saturdays. Brokered shows were the only source of substantial income for WNSW but it was not enough to keep the station profitable after a while. In 2000 the station moved toward a Big Band lean and dropped the Neil Diamond and Elvis cuts.

Finally on February 28, 2001 WNSW would drop the format altogether with the playing of Frank Sinatra's Softly As I Leave You. The format would, however, continue with a few evening hours with Danny Stiles.^[3] The rest of the day would revert to brokered programming full-time again.

Voice of Russia

In January 2011, WNSW converted to a 24-hour simulcast of the English language service of the Voice of Russia and maintained this format until April 2014 when owner Multicultural Broadcasting sold the station.

Relevant Radio

In April 2014, the station was sold to Starboard Broadcasting for $10 million and switched to religious Catholic programming with the branding of Relevant Radio.^[4]

Power increase proposed

In early 2007, WNSW applied to move their transmitter from Union Township, Union County, New Jersey to Clifton, New Jersey. The station also has applied for a power increase of 5,000 watts day/night to 10,000 watts day and 7,000 watts night which would allow their signal to be heard throughout New York City.^[5]

In Summer of 2008, the Union Township towers were dismantled. WNSW now transmits from the four towers leased from WPAT (AM) in Clifton.

References

1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
↑ Toby Eddings, "ACC football on one less station," The Sun News, Apr. 18, 1999.
↑ The Danny Stiles Virtual Music Museum-Big Band Music and much more, WNSW 1430, WNYC and WPAT.
↑ "Starboard Media Foundation to buy WNSW-AM". Radio and Television Business Report. April 25, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
↑ www.musicradio77.com

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WNSW

Radio-Locator Information on WNSW

Radio stations in the New York City market

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Apex/VHF FM	42.8

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