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 |
| Former callsigns | WNJR (?-1999) |
| Affiliations | Relevant Radio (2014-) |
| Owner |
Relevant Radio (Starboard Media Foundation, Inc.) |
| Website | www |
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.
In 1928, the FCC assigned the 1400KC frequency to five radio stations in Brooklyn, WSGH, WSDA, WLTH, WCGU, and WBBC. By 1941, there were only four stations remaining. WCGU was now WARD, WSGH became WVFW, WBBC and WLTH; these stations merged to become WBYN. WBYN went into operation in 1941 on 1430KC; the station was known as "Brooklyn's Own Station".
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 ..
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