WNJO
Frequency90.3 MHz
BrandingNew Jersey Public Radio
Programming
FormatPublic radio (news/talk, jazz)
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerNew York Public Radio
History
First air date
August 23, 2008 (2008-08-23)
Call sign meaning
"New Jersey Ocean"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID123020
ClassA
ERP
  • 1 watt (horizontal)
  • 4,000 watts (vertical)
HAAT37 meters (121 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
39°54′52″N 74°4′58″W / 39.91444°N 74.08278°W / 39.91444; -74.08278 (WNJO)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.wnyc.org/series/new-jersey-public-radio

WNJO (90.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Toms River, New Jersey, with its transmitter located on the Barnegat Peninsula south of Seaside Park. The station is owned by New York Public Radio, and is an affiliate of their New Jersey Public Radio network.

WNJO's signal is extremely limited in Ocean County due to co-channel interference from WNJZ which transmits a 6,000 watt signal from Cape May Court House, just 25 miles from the Ocean County border.

WNYC assumed control of the stations that make up NJPR under a management agreement on July 1, 2011. Previously, WNJO had been part of New Jersey Network's radio service.

WNJO was knocked off-the-air along with the rest of the NJPR network when its transmitter took a heavy hit from Hurricane Sandy. While WNJO's sister stations all came back online on November 3, it took until December 14 to get WNJO back on the air because the Barnegat Peninsula was inaccessible from mainland New Jersey for some time after the storm. New York Public Radio engineering director Jim Stagnitto initially thought the transmitter had been carried into Barnegat Bay, but he and his team found the transmitter intact when they were finally able to inspect the site.[2][3][4] However, WNJO's coverage area did not lose access to NPR programming. It is one of the few portions of the NJPR service area that gets a clear signal from the WNYC stations, and WNJZ—a satellite of Philadelphia's WHYY-FM—also covers the area with a decent signal.

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WNJO". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Lapin, Andrew. WNJO transmitter back on-air nearly six weeks after Sandy. Current, 2012-12-11.
  3. ↑ "Stagnitto: A View From New York". Radio World. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Fybush, Scott (29 October – 2 November 2012). "NERW 10/29/2012: Sandy Takes Aim at NERW-land (with Friday update)". Northeast Radio Watch. Retrieved 5 November 2012.


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