WPAT (AM)
| City | Paterson, New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | New York metropolitan area |
| Branding | "W Radio 930 AM" |
| Frequency | 930 kHz |
| First air date | 1941 |
| Format | Ethnic |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 5,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 51661 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°50′59.5″N 74°10′58.0074″W / 40.849861°N 74.182779833°W |
| Callsign meaning | W PATerson (WPAT's city of license) |
| Owner |
Multicultural Broadcasting (Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC) |
| Webcast | WPAT-AM Official LIVE Internet Stream |
| Website | WPAT930AM.com |
WPAT (930 AM) is the callsign of a radio station licensed to Paterson, New Jersey. Located at 930 kHz in the medium-wave AM band, the station runs paid ethnic programming.
WPAT first went on the air in 1941, from studios at 7 Ellison Street in Paterson, next to studios at 1060 Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey, later two locations in Paterson, studios in Midtown Manhattan, and later from studios at 1396 Broad Street in Clifton, New Jersey.
For many years, the station (along with its FM counterpart) would broadcast a beautiful music format under the slogan "Easy 93". In 1951, WPAT's Gaslight Revue program debuted. It was a skilfully assembled montage of music pieces that would become widely imitated within the industry. Indeed, it was so popular that albums of its selections and segues were made and released. WPAT was the essence of a mellow sound and feel; the requirement for different programming between the AM and FM was met simply by repeating the previous week's AM programs in a slightly different order on FM. Initially, the music was only instrumental versions of Pop Standards by artists like Mantovani, Henry Mancini, Stan Kenton, Jackie Gleason, Hollyridge Strings, Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, David Rose, among others. Some of the music bordered on light Classical. The FM station was added in 1958.
Three announcers who worked at WPAT in the late 1940s and early 1950s — Tom Gregory, Ed Ladd and Lou Steele — went on to become staff announcers for New York television station WNEW-TV Channel 5 (now WNYW), remaining there into the 1980s.
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