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WWJZ
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| WWJZ | |
| City of license | Mount Holly, New Jersey |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Philadelphia (Delaware Valley) |
| Branding | Radio Disney AM 640 |
| Frequency | 640 kHz  |
| Format | Children's |
| Power | 50,000 watts daytime 950 watts nighttime |
| Callsign meaning | JZ (Play-on letters for New Jersey) |
| Former callsigns | WEXP |
| Affiliations | Radio Disney |
| Owner | Disney |
| Website | See External Links |
WWJZ is a Radio Disney station serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market. The station is owned by ABC. WWJZ broadcasts on 640 kHz with a power of 50,000 watts daytime (950 watts at night) with a 4-tower array and is licensed to Mount Holly, New Jersey. The transmitter is located near the intersection of US-206 & Cr-530 in Pemberton Township, New Jersey with a repeater in Horsham, PA.
Prior to Radio Disney, WWJZ was owned by John Farina, the originator of the sound adopted by Al Hamm's Music of your Life format. Farina's dream was to re-establish the signal he had on 1460 kHz in Mount Holly back in the 1960's, as WJJZ (Now FM 106.1 in Philadelphia). With the help of his long time friend and engineer, Ted Schober, he got New Jersey its first 50 kiloWatt AM radio station, and was able to put his beloved sound on the air again. The sounds of Brook Benton, Tommy Dorsey, Margaret Whiting, Doris Day, Frankie Lane and many others covered the east coast from Cape Cod to Cape Hattaras from October 1992 through May 1993using an ancient General Electric monster of a transmitter - the same type used by the venerable WJZ in its first heydey as flagship of the NBC "Blue Network". These halcyon days were soon to end with a bitter dispute between Farina and the financier-landlord Edgar Cramer that took WWJZ dark in August 1993.
Not to be defeated, Farina reestablished the format on a 1700 Watt "peanut whistle" temporary transmitter in Florence, NJ, with the help of Nick Grand and Schober. The sound was well received with thousands of letters and some modest Philadelphia ratings, but with a weak signal it could not do the job of the big transmitter. Heartbroken, Farina had a stroke and died.
Nick Grand continued the temporary operation as executor through the end of 1999, unable to make peace with Cramer, until Disney made its offer for the station.
From the 1950s through the inception of WWJZ operation in 1992, AM 640 was home to most east coast "carrier current" college radio staions including: La Salle University's student radio station which would later become known as WEXP, Rutgers University's WRSU, Drew University's WERD, Stevens Institute's WCPR and many others. 71.168.208.102 02:18, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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