WMGM-TV
WMGM-TV (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Wildwood, New Jersey, United States, affiliated with the True Crime Network.
The stations share studios on North Delsea Drive in Vineland, while WMGM-TV's transmitter is located along Avalon Boulevard in Swainton.
WMGM-TV is officially considered part of the Philadelphia television market but primarily serves southeastern New Jersey, including Atlantic City.
For many years, the station operated a low-powered repeater, WMGM-LP on VHF channel 7, to serve Atlantic City itself.
The building also housed the transmitters for Atlantic City's WMGM radio as well as Pleasantville's WOND (1400 AM) and WTKU-FM (98.3).
While WMGM radio began broadcasting from WPUR (107.3 FM)'s auxiliary facilities atop the Trump Taj Mahal casino, the AM stations and WMGM-LP remained dark, leaving many Atlantic City residents without clear reception of NBC programs over-the-air.
The station's former general manager, Ron Smith, claimed that the move was a result of NBCUniversal and its parent company Comcast wanting to protect WCAU.
In July 2014, WMGM-TV introduced the "Friends of 40 Summer Membership Club"[13] in which viewers contribute money in return for benefits such as station merchandise, discounts, and invitations to its outings; this form of fundraising is more commonly associated with public broadcasting.
[16] On December 9, 2014, Access.1 made a statement on WMGM's website, indicating that it was planning to "continue and expand our news product on a new broadcast channel" in early to mid-2015, retaining and re-locating the station's staff, news operation, and sales department to a new, unspecified outlet and studio.
[12] Local personality Pinky Kravitz (whose WOND radio show was aired on WMGM) disclosed that the station was seeking $3 million in funding for these planned changes.
Following the end of its affiliation, WMGM began to carry programming from Soul of the South—a network focusing primarily on the African-American community.
WMGM-TV's new programming was reported to be an interim measure, assuming that LocusPoint did manage to sell the station during the 2016 spectrum incentive auction.
SNJ Today newscasts were also carried on WACP, a new Atlantic City television station that signed on in 2012.
[22] On April 16, 2018, Engle Broadcasting filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting the consent for Silent STA on WMGM-LP which was granted until October 16, 2018.
