public radio broadcast area northern new jersey branding new jersey public radio frequency see table below first air date july 1 2011 2011 07 01 format public radio news talk jazz class a all stations callsign meaning all stations new jersey 4th letter see table below affiliations npr public radio international american public media owner new york public radio sister stations wnyc wnyc fm wqxr fm wqxw webcast listen live website www.njpublicradio.org new jersey public radio njpr is an npr member network serving portions of northern new jersey . it is owned by new york public radio nypr which also owns wnyc am wnyc fm and wqxr fm in new york city and wqxr s simulcast station wqxw in ossining new york . the network comprises the four northernmost radio stations of the former new jersey network njn . 1 it mainly covers the few areas of northern new jersey that don t get a good signal from the wnyc stations . the network went on the air on july 1 2011 after njn ended operations the day before . contents 1 overview 2 programming 3 stations 4 references 5 external links overview edit for more details on this topic see new jersey network . the seeds which led to the formation of new jersey public radio were planted in 2008 when njn officials asked the new jersey legislature for permission to explore the possibility of spinning off into a non profit entity independent from state funding . 2 however on june 6 2011 new jersey governor chris christie who vowed to end state funded public broadcasting upon taking office in 2010 announced the sale of the radio network . the northern part of the network was sold to new york public radio which used the stations to start a new new jersey focused public radio station . 3 a formal agreement was signed on june 29 . 1 nypr assumed control of the stations under a management agreement on july 1 ; the federal communications commission approved the sale later in 2011 . programming edit originally new jersey public radio s programming was largely identical to the programming that had been offered by njn ; 1 consisting primarily of national programming from npr public radio international and american public media as well as a simulcast of wbgo s jazz programming in the overnight hours . on january 12 2012 ; njpr rolled out a new schedule . among the highlights were a local host for morning edition and increased new jersey centric news and information content in partnership with the new jersey news service headquartered at montclair state university . 4 stations edit due to the crowded state of the noncommercial end of the fm dial in the northeastern united states the four new jersey public radio stations all operate at relatively low power . none has an erp greater than 4 000 watts . city call letters frequency netcong wnjy 89.3 sussex wnjp 88.5 toms river wnjo 90.3 trenton wnjt fm 88.1 all four njpr stations were knocked off the air on october 29 after taking a heavy hit from hurricane sandy . while wnjy wnjp and wnjt returned to the air by november 3 it took until december 14 to get wnjo back on the air because its transmitter is located near seaside park on the barnegat peninsula which was inaccessible from mainland new jersey for some time after the storm . new york public radio engineering director jim stagnitto initially feared that the wnjo transmitter was knocked into barnegat bay but found it intact when his team was able to access the site . 5 6 7 references edit a b c flanagan jenna june 30 2011 . new york public radio acquires four njn radio stations . wnyc . retrieved july 1 2011 . behrens steve . with its state aid shrinking njn asks for independence . current 2008 05 12 . njn press release via wmgm tv gov. christie selects wnet for njn takeover june 6 2011 . new jersey public radio announces new programming schedule to launch thursday january 12 . new york public radio 2012 01 04 . stagnitto a view from new york . radio world . 2 november 2012 . retrieved 5 november 2012 . 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 . lapin andrew . wnjo transmitter back on air nearly six weeks after sandy . current 2012 12 11 . external links edit official website v t e npr member stations in the state of new jersey njpr stations netcong wnjy sussex wnjp toms river wnjo trenton wnjt whyy stations atlantic city wnjn berlin wnjs bridgeton wnjb cape may wnjz manahawkin wnjm other stations hackettstown wxpj lincroft wbjb newark wbgo ocean city atlantic city wrtq see also list of npr stations see also adult contemporary classic hits college country news talk npr oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in new jersey retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title new jersey public radio & oldid 712060555 categories radio stations in new jerseyradio stations established in 2011npr member networks navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 26 march 2016 at 17 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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