WNSW
WNSW (1430 AM) is a religious-formatted broadcast radio station, licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and serving the New York Metropolitan area.
WNSW's origin is the result of the consolidation of multiple stations, located in the New York City region, that dated to the mid-1920s.
After the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) was formed in 1927, it soon determined that there were significantly more stations operating in the New York City area than could be given exclusive frequency assignments.
On November 11, 1928, the FRC made a major nationwide reallocation under its General Order 40, and assigned four New York area stations—WCGU, WSGH-WSDA, WLTH and WBBC—to share time on 1400 kHz.
)[4] In March 1941, the four stations—WARD (formerly WCGU), WBBC, WVFW (formerly WSGH-WSDA) and WLTH—were reassigned to 1430 kHz, as part of the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement.
During the 1950s and 1960s the station featured some of the earliest rock and roll programming in the New York area, including the first claim to airing Alan Freed in that region.
The station's two 344-foot (105 m) guyed broadcast towers were well known to residents of the newly developed College Estates section of Union.
[vague] Additionally the station's antenna system's capacity hat design radiated too much signal skyward and not enough toward the ground where listeners reside.
In 1968 the FCC denied Continental Broadcasting's license renewal, after finding that the former manager, Leonard Mireison, had committed "gross mismanagement and fraud on the commission",[10] although it was allowed to continue to run the station, which was profitable, while this decision was being appealed.
[citation needed] After WQEW in New York City became Radio Disney on December 28, 1998, WNJR began playing adult standards.
It was decided that once advertising grew enough to support standards that they would drop the weekend brokered shows that were still the main source of revenue for WNSW.
The station was unable to sell even a moderate amount of commercial time but held on to the format during daytime in the week and Saturdays.
In January 2011, WNSW converted to a 24-hour simulcast of the English language service of the Voice of Russia and maintained this format until April 2014, when owner Multicultural Broadcasting sold the station.
In April 2014, the station was sold to Starboard Broadcasting for $10 million and switched to religious Catholic programming with the branding of Relevant Radio.
