WOND

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WOND
Broadcast area Atlantic City–Jersey Shore
Frequency 1400 kHz
BrandingNews Talk 1400 WOND
Programming
Format Talk radio
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerLongport Media LLC.
WBSS, WMGM, WTKU-FM
History
First air date
July 1950;74 years ago (1950-07)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 61102
Class C
Power 1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates
 39°23′24″N74°30′45″W / 39.39000°N 74.51250°W / 39.39000; -74.51250
Translator(s) 92.3 W223CO (Atlantic City)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website wondradio.com

WOND (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pleasantville, New Jersey, and serving the Atlantic City radio market. It is owned by Longport Media and broadcasts a Conservative talk radio format. Its studios and offices are located offshore in Linwood, New Jersey.

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WOND is powered at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna, its transmitter is on Old Turnpike in Pleasantville, near the Atlantic City Expressway. [2]

Programming

On weekdays, WOND has local hosts during the day. Nights feature nationally syndicated programs, including: The Lars Larson Show , Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and America in The Morning .

Weekend syndicated hosts include Handel on The Law with Bill Handel , The Kim Komando Show and Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham . [3] Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio.

History

WOND is one of the Atlantic City market's legacy radio stations, first signing on the air in July 1950 as a network affiliate of ABC Radio.

In the 1960s, it was a Top 40 radio station, and its morning show was hosted by Bob Weems, one of the area's best-remembered DJs. The station was home to the long-running Pinky's Corner, hosted by Seymour "Pinky" Kravitz. The show called WOND home for 57 years before his retirement and death in 2015. [4]

TV journalist Jessica Savitch began her career as a teen DJ on a show called Teen Talk in 1962. [5] She used "Wild Weekend" as a theme song. She called herself "Wonda" for a short time. The station also launched the career of Tom Lamaine, long-time radio personality at WIP in Philadelphia and then at KYW-TV.

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"First Lady of the Airwaves" Barbara Altman also broadcast her weekday call-in show Barbara Altman's Front Porch from WOND for decades. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WOND". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/WOND
  3. ↑ "On Air Schedule". News Talk 1400 AM WOND. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Longtime broadcaster Pinky Kravitz dead at 88". Press of Atlantic City.
  5. ↑ Wilkinson, Gerry (2006). "Jessica Beth Savitch". Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  6. ↑ "South Jersey Mourns the Passing of Barbara Altman, First Lady of the Airwaves". June 25, 2020.
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