WNJN-FM

WNJN-FM

City of license	Atlantic City, New Jersey
Branding	WHYY
Frequency	89.7 MHz
First air date	May 1997
Format	Public radio
ERP	25 watts horizontal 6,000 watts vertical
HAAT	83 m (272 ft) horizontal 84 m (276 ft) vertical
Class	A
Facility ID	48483
Transmitter coordinates
Callsign meaning	New Jersey Network (former owner)
Affiliations	NPR Public Radio International American Public Media
Owner	WHYY, Inc.
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	whyy.org

WNJN-FM (89.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey. The station is owned by WHYY, Inc., and simulcasts the public radio news and talk programming of WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Main article: WHYY-FM

History

Main article: New Jersey Network

The station was formerly owned and operated by the New Jersey Network. NJN's radio network began operation May 20, 1991, when WNJT-FM in Trenton signed on. Eight other stations would be established over the following seventeen years.

On June 6, 2011, the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority agreed to sell five FM stations in southern New Jersey to WHYY. The transaction was announced by Governor Chris Christie, as part of his long-term goal to end State-subsidized public broadcasting. The five stations previously belonged to New Jersey Network's statewide radio service. WHYY assumed control of the stations through a management agreement on July 1, 2011, pending Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for the acquisition; at that point, the stations began to carry the WHYY-FM schedule.

External links

• whyy.org
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJN
• Radio-Locator information on WNJN
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WNJN