WSTW

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WSTW
93.7 WSTW.png
Broadcast area Wilmington, Delaware
Frequency 93.7 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingToday's Best Variety 93.7 WSTW
Programming
Format Contemporary hit radio
Subchannels
Ownership
Owner
  • Forever Media
  • (FM Radio Licenses, LLC)
History
First air date
 1950 (as WDEL-FM)
Former call signs
WDEL-FM (1950–1969)
Call sign meaning
"We're Stereo to Wilmington"
Technical information
Facility ID 16459
Class B
ERP
  • 47,100 watts (analog)
  • 1,290 watts (digital) [1]
HAAT 153 meters (502 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 39°48′57.4″N75°31′45.7″W / 39.815944°N 75.529361°W / 39.815944; -75.529361 (WSTW)
Translator(s) See § Translators
Links
Webcast
Website wstw.com

WSTW (93.7 FM, "93.7 WSTW") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Wilmington, Delaware. The station is owned by Forever Media and broadcasts a Contemporary hit radio format. [2]

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WSTW's studios and offices are on Shipley Road in Wilmington. Its broadcast tower is also located there, north of Downtown Wilmington at ( 39°48′57.3″N75°31′45.2″W / 39.815917°N 75.529222°W / 39.815917; -75.529222 ). [3] In addition to Wilmington and Northern Delaware, the station's 47,100 watt signal covers Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania as well as sections of New Jersey and Maryland. [4]

History

In 1950, the station signed on as WDEL-FM. [5] At first it simulcast the programming of sister station WDEL (1150 AM), airing middle of the road music, talk, news and sports. But by the late 1960s, it was separately programmed, switching the call sign to WSTW. [6] The call sign stood for "We're Stereo to Wilmington", as the first stereo FM in Wilmington, Delaware - its city of license. Steinman Enterprises is a family-owned broadcasting, newspaper and mining company based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For more than a decade, WSTW carried an easy listening and middle of the road music format that was largely automated.

In 1980, WSTW switched to an automated Top 40 format, using the TM "Stereo Rock" service. [7] By the mid-1980s, station management added disc jockeys and ended the automation. Over the years, the station has made slight changes in programming, switching from Top 40 to Hot AC and back again. In the mid-1990s, the station made the move to Hot AC. [8] Around 2000, it moved back to Top 40.

In May 2005, WSTW created the "Rewards" program for winning and obtaining prizes. The "Choice Rewards" system allows listeners of the station to bid on auctions for WSTW concerts, merchandise, etc., based on how many points the user has. Users obtain these points by typing in "Choice Words", which they hear on WSTW itself, on the "Rewards" website. The "Rewards" program was changed later, with "Choice Words" being solely found on the WSTW webpage, at station appearances, and via online surveys.

In 2006, WSTW was chosen as CHR Station of the Year of the Marconi Award by the National Association of Broadcasters.

WSTW HD2 is a simulcast of news/talk sister station WDEL and WDEL-FM. WSTW HD3 is a simulcast of country sister station WXCY-FM and may be heard in analog at 96.9 MHz.

On February 5, 2019, Forever Media, LLC bought out Delmarva Broadcasting Company for $18.5 million, adding 10 more stations to Forever Media, LLC's group of stations in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Former air staff

Some notable former air staff members include Alan Price (former morning show personality); Ellis B. "Bruce Ellis" Feaster, now at WPOZ in Orlando, Florida; Dave Fleetwood, recently at WGBG-FM in Seaford, Delaware; and Dave Walls, now an anchor/reporter for WSET-TV in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Translators

Broadcast translator for WSTW-HD3
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC infoNotes
W245CJ96.9 FM Wilmington, Delaware 139424250 (Horizontal)170  m (558  ft)D 39°48′56.2″N75°31′48″W / 39.815611°N 75.53000°W / 39.815611; -75.53000 (W245CJ) LMS Simulcast with 103.7 WXCY-FM

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References

  1. ↑ "FCC 335-FM Digital Notification [WSTW]". fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. June 23, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Stations". Forever Media.
  3. ↑ "FM Query Results for WSTW". fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ "54 dBu Service Contour for WSTW, 93.7 MHz, Wilmington, DE". fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. January 28, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  5. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1952 page 103
  6. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1970 page B-38
  7. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1981 page C-42
  8. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1995 page B-75
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