WOND

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WOND
FCC
Facility ID61102
ClassC
Power1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates
39°23′24″N 74°30′45″W / 39.39000°N 74.51250°W / 39.39000; -74.51250
Translator(s)92.3 W223CO (Atlantic City)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen Live
Websitewondradio.com

WOND (1400

radio studios and offices are located offshore in Linwood, New Jersey
.

WOND is powered at 1,000

MHz
.

Programming

On weekdays, WOND has local hosts during the day. Nights feature

.

Weekend syndicated hosts include

.

History

WOND is one of the Atlantic City market's legacy radio stations, first

signing on the air in July 1950 as a network affiliate of ABC Radio
.

In the 1960s, it was a

DJs. The station was home to the long-running Pinky's Corner, hosted by Seymour "Pinky" Kravitz. The show called WOND home for 57 years before his retirement and death in 2015.[4]

TV journalist Jessica Savitch began her career as a teen DJ on a show called Teen Talk in 1962.[5] She used "Wild Weekend" as a theme song. She called herself "Wonda" for a short time. The station also launched the career of Tom Lamaine, long-time radio personality at WIP in Philadelphia and then at KYW-TV.

In 1988,

WKXW-FM and then made the jump in 1992 to Los Angeles's top talk station, KFI 640 AM
.

Former logo

"First Lady of the Airwaves" Barbara Altman also broadcast her weekday call-in show Barbara Altman's Front Porch from WOND for decades.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WOND". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Radio-Locator.com/WOND
  3. ^ "On Air Schedule". News Talk 1400 AM WOND. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  4. ^ "Longtime broadcaster Pinky Kravitz dead at 88". Press of Atlantic City.
  5. ^ Wilkinson, Gerry (2006). "Jessica Beth Savitch". Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  6. ^ "South Jersey Mourns the Passing of Barbara Altman, First Lady of the Airwaves". June 25, 2020.

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