WVNJ
| City | Oakland, New Jersey, U.S. |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area |
Bergen County, New Jersey New York City metro area |
| Branding | The Voice |
| Frequency | 1160 kHz |
| First air date | 1993 |
| Format | Talk radio |
| Power | 20,000 Watts (day) 2,500 Watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 68956 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°03′23″N 74°14′58″W / 41.05639°N 74.24944°W |
| Callsign meaning | Voice of New Jersey |
| Owner | Universal Broadcasting of New York, Inc. |
| Sister stations | WTHE |
| Webcast | webcast at mainstreamnetwork.com |
| Website | www.wvnj.com |
WVNJ (1160 AM "The Voice") is radio station licensed to Oakland, New Jersey, serving Bergen County, New Jersey and parts of the New York City metropolitan area. The station employs a brokered programming format and is owned by Universal Broadcasting headed by Miriam Warshaw.
The programming on WVNJ is a blend of talk shows, infomercials, and special programming. The station also plays adult standards several hours a week on the weekend.
The WVNJ calls were previously used on an AM station licensed to Newark, New Jersey -- owned by the Newark Evening News, New Jersey's largest newspaper -- operating on AM 620 from the 1948 until 1983. That station played adult standards as well until it was sold in 1983. That station became a Spanish-language station WSKQ in 1983, a Sports station in 1996, and a brokered station by 2003 known today as WSNR. The previous WVNJ was also co-owned with an FM station on 100.3 known as WVNJ-FM. That station played Beautiful Music. The WVNJ FM Transmitter was located on a tower at the intersection of Eagle Rock and Prospect Avenues in West Orange New Jersey. The Station operated with a 5 bay RCA antenna at 670 Ft. Although licensed in Newark, studios, sales offices and AM transmitter were located on Tower Road in Livingston, N.J. The AM antenna system was a 5 tower in line directional array,fed with 5kW day & night. The Studio/office building also housed a backup FM transmitter (RCA) with an antenna on one of the AM towers. They were also sold in 1983 and became a CHR station as WHTZ/Z100 which they still are today. 1160 WVNJ is not and never was in any way affiliated with the previous stations using these calls.
WVNJ began operation on AM 1160 in December 1993. The station initially offered an oldies format featuring mostly R & B music from 1955 to 1974. The format did not do well and in January 1996 WVNJ flipped to an adult standards format featuring the music of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mills Brothers, Peggy Lee, Tommy Dorsey, Ray Charles, Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Mathis, Bing Crosby, McGuire Sisters, Bobby Darin, Perry Como, Glenn Miller, Sammy Davis Jr., and many others. The station stayed away from baby boomer pop with the exception of quazi-rock and roll artists like Ray Charles. The station became known as "The Station Of The Stars".
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