WHTG (AM)

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WHTG
Broadcast area Monmouth–Ocean County, New Jersey
Frequency 1410 kHz
BrandingThe Breeze
Programming
Format Oldies
Affiliations AP Radio
Ownership
Owner Press Communications, LLC
History
First air date
November 1, 1957 (1957-11-01)
Call sign meaning
Harold and Theo Gade (station founders)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 72323
Class D
Power
  • 500 watts (day)
  • 126 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
 40°16′10.4″N74°4′17.5″W / 40.269556°N 74.071528°W / 40.269556; -74.071528
Translator W264DH 100.7 (Eatontown)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website breezeradio.com

WHTG (1410 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. [2] Licensed to Eatontown, New Jersey, the station serves the Monmouth and Ocean County areas. WHTG is owned by Press Communications, LLC and features programming from AP Radio. [3] The station also broadcasts on FM translator W264DH on 100.7 FM in Eatontown.

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History

WHTG signed-on the air on November 1, 1957, a simulcast of its co-owned station WHTG-FM. In 1984, when the station began playing a big-band standards format, WHTG-FM began featuring alternative rock. Eventually the station gravitated toward an oldies format, called "Great Gold".

Until its purchase in 2000 by Press Communications, the station was privately owned by the Gade family, the station's founders. While the station maintains its original AM tower and transmitter site in Tinton Falls, the studios are now located in nearby Neptune.

During the 1960s, Wally Dow announced, sold time, and performed all general duties at the station. He was general manager of the station from 1968 until September 1970, when he and his family moved to Florida.

For much of its history WHTG was a daytime only radio station. The station's traditional signoff was Perry Como's recording of "The Lord's Prayer", used every day except for Yom Kippur when a different signoff was used. Relaxing of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules allowed the station to broadcast for two hours after local sunset and now broadcasts around the clock on 500 watts daytime and 126 watts nighttime. Once the station changes over to 126 watts the listening radius is severely diminished.

On July 28, 2022 WHTG changed its branding to "The Breeze", now positioning as "The Jersey Shore's Feel Good Station". "The Breeze" was previously used on Press stations WBHX and WWZY until 2013. [4]

Translator

Broadcast translator for WHTG
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
W264DH100.7 FM Eatontown, New Jersey 1566852174.9  m (246  ft)D 40°16′41.4″N74°4′49.5″W / 40.278167°N 74.080417°W / 40.278167; -74.080417 (W264DH) LMS

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WHTG". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WHTG Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  4. ↑ "The Breeze Returns To The Jersey Shore". RadioInsight. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
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