WSNR
| City | Jersey City, New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | NJ/NY |
| Frequency | 620 (kHz) |
| Format | Brokered time/Sports talk |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Power | 3,000 wattsday 7,600 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 61643 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°47′53.00″N 74°06′24.00″W / 40.7980556°N 74.1066667°W |
| Callsign meaning |
W Sporting News Radio (former affiliation) |
| Former callsigns | WVNJ, WSKQ, WXLX, WJWR |
| Owner | Gregory Davidzon and Sam Katsman (Davidzon Radio, Inc.) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | DavidzonRadio.com |
WSNR, AM 620, is a radio station in the New York metropolitan area with a brokered time format. The station is co-owned by Gregory Davidzon, a Russian-American media mogul who also publishes a weekly newspaper under his name, and Sam Katsman, through licensee Davidzon Radio, Inc. On Saturdays and Sundays (10 a.m. to midnight), the station airs a Caribbean format, One Caribbean Radio.
WSNR is licensed to Jersey City, New Jersey and transmits 3,000 watts days/7,600 watts night from five (5) in-line towers in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, but has an application pending with the FCC to relocate its transmitter to the New Jersey Meadowlands and increase power to 15,000 watts day and night.
First signed on in 1947 or 1948. In the 1950s through 1970s, as WVNJ licensed to Newark, New Jersey, the station played Broadway show music and mostly vocal based easy listening music. WVNJ had evolved into an adult standards format by the early 1970s, playing artists like Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Mills Brothers, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Andrews Sisters, Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee, Artie Shaw, Carpenters, Vic Damone, Sammy Davis Jr., Connie Francis, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis, Dinah Shore, among others. By the late 1970s, WVNJ featured a pure big-band show playing only music from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s weekdays between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. This show was hosted by Danny Stiles. WVNJ 620 was marketed as a standards station to accompany its then-co-owned FM station WVNJ FM which played Beautiful Music. In 1980, when WRVR New York dropped Jazz for Country WKHK, WVNJ-FM adopted a night-time jazz format keeping easy listening instrumentals and a vocal per 20 minutes during the day. At that point, WVNJ 620 picked up the beautiful music format for night-time hours while keeping big bands and standards during the day. Ratings were low on WVNJ 620 due to the fact it had a weak signal and 1130 WNEW was also doing a big band based format by 1981.
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