WNYM (970 AM) – branded "AM 970 The Answer" – is a commercial radio station licensed to Hackensack, New Jersey, and serving the New York metropolitan area.
[2] WNYM airs most of the general-market slate of the Salem Radio Network, including Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Sebastian Gorka, Eric Metaxas, Hugh Hewitt and Larry Elder.
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Joe Piscopo hosts WNYM's local morning drive time show.
[3] The station is the New York City-area network affiliate of Syracuse University football and men's basketball broadcasts, produced by Learfield.
These are games which could not air over the Islanders' primary New York City radio affiliate, WEPN-AM-FM due to scheduling conflicts.
[7] WKBD began a series of test transmissions in late August, at first broadcasting from Bremer's store at 210 Jackson Avenue.
[8] The next month Bremer was permitted to reclaim the call sign, WAAT, that had been assigned to a staton he operated in 1922 under a temporary authorization.
[15] Stations were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard.
[16] On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including WAAT, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it.
In 1957, the WAAT/WATV operation was sold by Bremer to National Telefilm Associates, which changed the station's call letters to WNTA.
[20][21] National Telefilm split up its holdings in 1961, with WNTA-TV (now WNET) being sold to a New York City-based nonprofit educational group, and the WNTA radio stations going to Communications Industries Broadcasting.
[25] The call letters were changed on May 16 of that year to WWDJ (known on the air as "97-DJ"), and the station attempted to take on WABC and replace WMCA as the New York market's second Top 40 outlet.
For a brief time, program director Mark Driscoll began imaging the station as "9-J", giving rise to a recorded parody of the station called "Nine" produced by a group that included disk jockeys Howard Hoffman, Randy West, Pete Salant and Russ "Famous Amos" DiBello.
WWDJ was sold to Communicom Corporation of America in April 1978,[27] about a year before Combined Communications' merger into the Gannett Company in 1979.
Around this time, Pillar of Fire Church-owned WAWZ (99.1 FM) in Zarephath dropped all but a few religious programs to play contemporary Christian music 18 hours a day, and Salem picked up many of the bumped shows; this caused Salem to decide to air programming full-time on WWDJ.
On July 25, 2008, WWDJ swapped call signs with a sister station in the Boston area and briefly became WTTT.
It stunted for several days with all-Frank Sinatra ("Frank 97 AM") programming, followed by a short stint of all-Pat Boone ("The Booner 970") music.