WIFI (AM)

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WIFI
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Broadcast area Delaware Valley
Frequency 1460 kHz
BrandingMaxima 92.9
Programming
Language(s) Spanish
Format Spanish CHR
Ownership
Owner
  • Miguel Amador
  • (Ritmo Broadcasting, LLC)
OperatorThe Voice Radio Network
History
First air date
November 1992;31 years ago (1992-11)
Former call signs
WRLB (1984-1992)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 55310
Class B
Power
  • 5,000 watts (day)
  • 500 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
 40°4′53″N74°47′41″W / 40.08139°N 74.79472°W / 40.08139; -74.79472
Translator(s)
Repeater(s) 97.5 WPEN-HD3
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website maxima929.com

WIFI (1460 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Florence, New Jersey, and serving the Delaware Valley. It is owned by Ritmo Broadcasting, but operated by The Voice Radio Network. It airs a Spanish CHR format. Its studios are on Broad Street in Trenton, New Jersey.

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By day, WIFI is powered at 5,000 watts, and at night, it reduces power to 500 watts to protect other stations on 1460 AM. It uses a directional antenna at all times, from its transmitter facility on Burlington-Columbus Road in Burlington. [2]

Programming is heard on three FM translators; W225DJ at 92.9 MHz in Burlington, W281CL at 104.1 in Cherry Hill, W253DG at 98.5 in Trenton. Programming is also heard on WPEN-HD3

History

WRLB and WIFI

The station received its construction permit on June 7, 1984. It was given the call sign WRLB. On February 1, 1992, while still not on the air, the station changed its call letters to the current WIFI. [3] Those same call letters had been used for some 20 years on a Philadelphia Top 40 station, 92.5 WIFI-FM (now WXTU). WIFI 1460 officially signed on the air in November 1992;31 years ago. It ran a brokered programming format under the "MyWifi 1460" brand.

The 1460 frequency had previously been used in Burlington County by WJJZ, a daytime-only station licensed to Mount Holly, New Jersey. Its transmitter site was on Burlington Island. Two incarnations of WJJZ operated, both losing their licenses over corporate problems, between 1963 and 1983.

Changes in management

In 2008, Florence Broadcasting Partners led by John Forsythe took over operations of the station under a time brokerage agreement with Real Life Broadcasting. On November 1, 2013, the operating contract between Real Life Broadcasting and Florence Broadcasting expired and was not renewed. The station was then operated by Omega Broadcasting, LLC, which programmed urban gospel music.

In 2013, WIFI became one of the first American broadcast stations to use 100% solar power for its daytime transmissions. A few years later, WIFI switched to Christian radio programming as "Life Radio".

Ritmo Broadcasting

In November 2020, Ritmo Broadcasting began managing WIFI, with a contemporary hit radio format, branded "WIFI 92.9". [4]

Ritmo Broadcasting acquired WIFI and translator W225DJ effective March 1, 2021, at a purchase price of $275,000. On April 16, 2021, the station rebranded as "Ritmo 92.9", and began playing Spanish tropical music.

On October 20, 2021, WIFI changed its format from tropical to Spanish-language adult contemporary, branded as "Amor 92.9." At the same time, Ritmo Broadcasting the Spanish tropical formatted "Ritmo 92.9" over to 98.5 W253DG and 97.5 WPEN-HD3. [5]

On March 24, 2022, at midnight, WIFI once again flipped its format, to rhythmic contemporary, and returned to its previous branding WIFI 92.9. The station launched its new website on March 25, 2022. This however was short lived, on March 29, 2022, WIFI flipped back to Spanish AC Amor 92.9 for a few days, and on April 4, 2022, WIFI flipped back to Rhythmic CHR. On April 11, 2022, after seven days of rhythmic CHR, WIFI went silent.

On April 21, 2022, WIFI flipped to urban contemporary as Jamz 92.9. On March 6, 2023, WIFI changed to a more CHR-oriented format of Urban Top 40 music. It kept the "Jamz 92.9" brand. [6]

On January 15, 2024, The Voice Radio Network agreed to acquire FM Translator W281CL from Ritmo Broadcasting at a price of $90,000. The Voice Radio Network also began operating WIFI. flipping the format to Spanish CHR under The Voice Radio Network's "Maxima" branding as "Maxima 92.9". [7]

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Translators

Broadcast translators for WIFI
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
W225DJ92.9 FM Burlington, New Jersey 20314524045  m (148  ft)D 40°4′58.2″N74°47′37.2″W / 40.082833°N 74.793667°W / 40.082833; -74.793667 (W225DJ) LMS
W281CL104.1 FM Cherry Hill, New Jersey 1413684051 m (167 ft)D 39°56′3″N74°53′38″W / 39.93417°N 74.89389°W / 39.93417; -74.89389 (W281CL) LMS
W253DG98.5 FM Trenton, New Jersey 8596518042 m (138 ft)D 40°11′21.8″N74°50′47.6″W / 40.189389°N 74.846556°W / 40.189389; -74.846556 (W253DG) LMS

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WIFI". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/WIFI
  3. ↑ "WIFI Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. ↑ Venta, Lance (November 24, 2020). "Ritmo Broadcasting Turns On WIFI 92.9 In New Jersey". RadioInsight. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ WIFI Flips To Spanish AC Amor 92.9 Radioinsight - October 20, 2021
  6. ↑ "WIFI Delivers Jamz To Jersey". RadioInsight. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  7. ↑ Maxima Expands in South Jersey Radioinsight - January 19, 2024
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