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Site of the Week 7/3/15: More Atlantic City

Scott Fybush by Scott Fybush
July 3, 2015
in Free Content, New Jersey, Tower Site of the Week
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Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH

Where’s a better place to be on the July Fourth weekend than the Jersey Shore? It’s as all-American as it gets…and it’s probably more fun there on a hot July weekend than on a frigid weekday in November.

The WAYV and WFPG sites
The WAYV and WFPG sites, seen from the west on US 30

Be that as it may, November was when we had a chance to spend some time seeing the sites – and now we get to share them with you here on Site of the Week.

This installment begins just north of the Absecon Boulevard (US 30) bridge, where the grounds around the Atlantic City wastewater plant aren’t exactly a big tourist attraction unless you’re looking to see some broadcasting going on.

WPUR 107.3
WPUR 107.3

WFPG-FM and WPGG
WFPG-FM and WPGG

There are two tower sites adjoining the water plant: along the access road that leads in from the south, a 384-foot guyed tower is home to Townsquare’s WFPG-FM (96.9 Atlantic City), WPUR (107.3 Atlantic City) and WPGG (1450 Atlantic City); to the north, a self-supporting 371-footer is the home of Equity’s WAYV (95.1 Atlantic City).

WFPG, WPUR and WPGG are tucked tightly into a squat stucco building that replaced the old WFPG/WFPG-TV building across US 30 (now WMID) that we showed you last week. WPGG is the old WFPG(AM), and it shares a transmitter room with WFPG-FM’s shiny new Nautel. WPUR came along later, having moved from the casino roof where it started in the 1990s (and where there’s still an aux site); it’s in an adjoining room that also houses the local NOAA Weather Radio transmitter.

WAYV's transmitter
WAYV’s transmitter

WAYV, by contrast, has lots of room in its facility over at the American Tower-owned site next to the water plant.

That’s because this was originally built to house independent TV station WWAC (Channel 53), which had its transmitter here from its start in the 1980s until the DTV era found it relocating closer to Philadelphia, where it’s now known as WMCN on channel 44.

That’s a long-serving BE transmitter at left, and an even older “Sintronics” (aka Singer, aka CCA) aux next to it. Family Stations also had a translator on 90.5 at this site when it owned WKDN-FM (106.9 Camden), but that signal was silent when we visited.

WFPG-WPUR-WPGG
WFPG-WPUR-WPGG

WFPG-FM and WPUR
WFPG-FM and WPUR

WAYV 95.1
WAYV 95.1

WSJO
WSJO

After lunch, we head out to see the one of the two outlying sites in the Townsquare portfolio. WSJO (104.9 Egg Harbor City) now does AC as “Sojo 104.9,” but in years gone by it was easy listening WRDR and then spent some time in Spanish as WEMG-FM. Its tidy transmitter site is about 15 miles west of the rest of the Atlantic City sites.

WSJO's transmitter building
WSJO’s transmitter building

WSJO 104.9
WSJO 104.9

Townsquare’s studios take up much of the second floor of an office building on Tilton Road in suburban Northfield, just off US 9 a couple of miles north of the WMGM facility that kicked off our Atlantic City trip.

950 Tilton Road
950 Tilton Road

Townsquare studios
Townsquare studios

The studios here are all lined up along a curving corridor: WPUR is “Cat Country 107.3,” anchoring one end of the complex next door to WENJ, “ESPN 97.3,” the one Townsquare signal that’s a little too far out for us to visit this time.

WPUR 107.3
WPUR 107.3

WPGG 1450
WPGG 1450

The 1450 signal, which spent some time relaying talker WKXW-FM from Trenton, has been revived as a local station, “WPG Talk Radio,” using the three-letter branding of what was Atlantic City’s oldest radio station back in the 1920s. (The original WPG eventually got absorbed into New York’s WOV and is an ancestor of today’s WBBR 1130.)

WSJO 104.9
WSJO 104.9

WFPG-FM 96.9
WFPG-FM 96.9

The studio layouts are similar down the hall at “Sojo” and at its softer AC sister, “Lite Rock 96.9” WFPG-FM.

Townsquare racks
Townsquare racks

WJPH-WJPG
WJPH-WJPG

There’s a rack room here that will also house an auxiliary FM facility for the local FMs – and another surprise waiting downstairs, where a small office suite on the ground floor is home to the mostly-automated operations of a fairly new religious broadcaster, WJPH (89.9 Woodbine)/WJPG (88.1 Cape May Court House).

Thanks to Tom McNally for the tours!

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If you don’t have your 2023 Tower Site Calendar yet, now is the perfect time to get it. Because we have lowered the price to just $14.

The calendar has great photos of broadcast sites near and far (everywhere from Navajo Nation on the cover to Boston to Toronto to Texas, and beyond), plus a lovely “centerfold” you can keep on your wall for 2024.

It’s still shipping regularly, and you can have yours in just a couple of days!

Order your copy and you’ll see what we mean.

If you have already ordered your calendar, make sure you check out the other items in the store, too!


And don’t miss a big batch of south Jersey IDs next Wednesday, over at our sister site, TopHour.com!

Next week: San Francisco, 2014

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