WRNJ
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| City | Hackettstown, New Jersey |
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| Slogan | Northwest Jersey's Own. |
| Frequency | 1510 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 92.7 W224AS (Washington) 104.7 W284AQ (Hackettstown) |
| First air date | August 26, 1976 |
| Format | Adult Contemporary |
| Power | 2,000 watts day 1,100 watts critical hours 230 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 76913 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°49′0″N 74°49′35″W / 40.81667°N 74.82639°W |
| Callsign meaning | W Radio North Jersey |
| Former frequencies | 1000 kHz (1976-1996) |
| Affiliations | ABC Radio |
| Owner | WRNJ Radio, Inc. (Larry Tighe and Norman Worth) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wrnjradio.com |
WRNJ Radio (1510 AM) is a radio station in Hackettstown, New Jersey broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format. The station is currently owned locally by WRNJ Radio, Inc. and features programing from ABC Radio.
WRNJ plays mostly adult contemporary music. The library includes hits from the 1980s to the present.
The station offers a news-intensive format featuring national news from ABC News Radio at the top of every hour. Live local news airs after the report from ABC News on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. News Director Joyce Estey, who has been at the station since March 1998, anchors the mornings and Tom O'Halloren anchors afternoons and evenings.
The station's news operation received widespread-praise from the region and several awards for their coverage in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. While the power was out, staff slept overnight at the station to keep providing updates to listeners.
WRNJ also broadcasts on the following FM translators:
The radio station can also be heard on the station's website the TuneIn app.
The original station, known as WRAN (studio and transmitter in Randolph Township) had an unusual signal day and night. During the day the station transmitted 10,000 watts. This was a very directional signal resembling an hourglass. The station reached about 10 miles east and west but about 70 miles north and south. About 15 miles north of the transmitter point the station had about a 30-mile reach each way. About 35 miles north, the station had about a 50-mile reach each way. So some places 50 miles away WRAN had a better signal than some points only 10 miles away. At night the station only put out 500 watts and reached about 10 miles all around.
The original station, WRAN, began operation on 1510 on August 19, 1964. They employed a full service contemporary music format. By the 1970s, the station employed a hybrid format of adult contemporary, Top 40, and oldies. Musically the format resembled the early '70s WOR-FM or the late '70s WCBS-FM. They even called themselves "Solid Gold WRAN" at one point. They were locally owned until 1980 when Sillerman and Morrow Broadcasting (owned by Cousin Brucie Morrow) purchased it, along with several other AM and FM radio stations in the New York City metropolitan area.
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