WNWW
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Broadcast area | Greater Hartford |
Frequency | 1290 kHz |
Branding | Faith Radio |
Programming | |
Format | Christian radio |
Affiliations | Northwestern Media |
Ownership | |
Owner | University of Northwestern – St. Paul |
History | |
First air date | 1947 |
Former call signs |
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Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 25073 |
Class | D |
Power |
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Transmitter coordinates | 41°47′48.36″N 72°47′48.35″W / 41.7967667°N 72.7967639°W |
Translator(s) | 94.1 W231CZ (Hartford) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Website | myfaithradio |
WNWW (1290
Programming is supplied by the
History
WNWW
Although one of the lowest-powered stations in Hartford, WCCC's 500-watt signal was strong enough to encompass the entire "greater Hartford" area, which in the late 1940s, consisted of the city of Hartford plus neighboring towns.
Early staff included Ralph Della Silva; Harry Larkin; Betty; Joe Girand; Eve Mink, Continuity; Ray Dower, National Sales Manager; Walt Neilson, Program Director; Bob Sherman, Music Director; and Irene Dolan, Traffic Director. The engineering staff consisted of Thomas York, engineer; Edward Reid and Gil Ford, control engineers; John Rameika, transmitter engineer; and Howard Wessenberg, chief engineer.
As the station grew in popularity and more and more area businesses realized the value of radio advertising, WCCC needed more space and moved its studios in the early 1950s into the historic
The station was in the basement, which Savitt would refer to as the "lower mezzanine level." The WCCC studios were located along the left-hand side of a basement hallway, within aroma-reach of The Bond's downstairs kitchens. The largest room featured a glass paneled wall from which visitors could view whatever was happening during studio usage. The studio contained a grand piano and an RCA cutting lathe for making 10-, 12-, and 16-inch disc recordings. The studio had a doorway that led to a much smaller step-up studio that also had a doorway that led into the control room. Each room had windows looking onto each other. The small studio was used for newscasts and/or celebrity seating during live interviews. However, nearly all of the on-air originations emanated from the control room. It had an RCA console with RCA rim drive turntables: two facing the large studio and one on the opposite side. The announcer sat in a roll-about chair at the console microphone and behind him were storage slots holding acetate discs filled with locally produced commercials plus factory made vinyl discs supplied by ad agencies. Above the shelving were two Magnecord PT-6J tape recorders.
WCCC was one of the first stations in the state that had music and news, and they sold what they billed as "TNT" (Time, News and Temperature) to advertisers, which was a big thing on the radio in those days.
Bill Savitt was a savvy businessman with a knack for promotion. According to newspaper accounts, by 1950, he was running over 400 spots a week for Savitt Jewelers on WCCC, and the same amount on four other competing Hartford stations. Later, he would become one of Hartford's most prolific TV advertisers.
During the 1950s, Ivor Hugh was host of the classical music show "Good Evening, Good Music", and the children's show "The Friendly Forest".
A sister station
In the mid-1960s, WCCC-AM-FM moved its studios and offices to 11 Asylum Street in Hartford and changed from a full-service format to an "All Request" format, which was simulcast in part on
Sy Dresner purchased the stations in the early 1970s, and by the mid-1970s, both signals had switched to a rock music format, first with a more freeform,
In 1990, the station lost its lease on the AM tower site on South Quaker Lane in West Hartford and constructed a new tower at the FM's site on Avon Mountain in West Hartford to allow both AM and FM stations to utilize the site. This necessitated the change in city of license from Hartford to West Hartford.
Howard Stern started his radio career as a morning host at WCCC AM/FM in the late 1970s (he also met his first producer, Fred Norris, at the station). He returned to WCCC (via syndication) in 1995 before leaving radio for Sirius Satellite Radio in 2005. Other notable hosts over the years were Bob Crane, Rusty Potz, Stoneman, The Ozzman, The Lich, Sebastian, Picozzi and the Horn, and Country Paul Payton.
In 2002, WCCC stopped simulcasting its sister FM station and flipped to a
Between January 9, 2002, and February 1, 2007, WCCC used the WTMI call letters. Those call letters formerly belonged to
In April 2007, the programming of WCCC was added to the HD2 sub-channel of WCCC-FM.
On July 30, 2014, Marlin announced that they would be selling both WCCC AM and FM to
On January 20, 2016, EMF filed an application to donate WCCC to the University of Northwestern – St. Paul.[5] On March 29, 2016, the station changed its call sign to WNWW, coinciding with the donation being consummated. On March 30, 2016, WNWW changed its format to University of Northwestern's Faith Radio religious format.
Translators
Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | Class | Transmitter coordinates | FCC info | Notes |
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W231CZ | 94.1 FM | Hartford, Connecticut | 139521 | 32 | D | 41°47′48″N 72°47′48″W / 41.79667°N 72.79667°W | LMS | Translator owned by the Educational Media Foundation. |
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WNWW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Hartford Courant: "WCCC Being Sold? Talent Shown The Door", July 30, 2014". Archived from the original on August 3, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ^ Radio Insight: "WCCC-FM-AM Hartford To Be Sold"
- ^ masslive.com: "WCCC radio in Hartford switching from FM rock to Christian music", July 31, 2014.
- ^ APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE - Federal Communications Commission
External links
- Articles and letters about the station at Radio World On Line[usurped]
- WNWW in the FCC AM station database
- WNWW in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- W231CZ in the FCC FM station database
- W231CZ at FCCdata.org
- FCC History Cards for WNWW