WHTG (AM)

WHTG
City of license	Eatontown, New Jersey
Broadcast area	Monmouth County, New Jersey
Branding	Great Gold 1410
Frequency	1410 kHz
First air date	1957
Format	Oldies
Power	500 watts day 126 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	72323
Transmitter coordinates	40°16′10.00″N 74°4′19.00″W / 40.2694444°N 74.0719444°W / 40.2694444; -74.0719444
Callsign meaning	Harold and Theo Gade, station founders
Affiliations	AP Radio
Owner	Press Communications, LLC
Sister stations	WJLP-DT, KJWP-DT, WKMK / WTHJ, WWZY / WBHX, WBBO
Website	1410amradio.com

WHTG (1410 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format.^[1] Licensed to Eatontown, New Jersey, the station serves the Monmouth County area. The station is currently owned by Press Communications, LLC and features programing from AP Radio.^[2]

The station simulcast the programming offerings of its co-owned station WHTG-FM until 1984, when the AM station began playing a big-band standards format while the FM station began featuring alternative rock. Eventually the station gravitated toward an oldies format, called "Great Gold", which it retains today.

Until its purchase in 2000 by Press Communications, the station was privately owned by the Gade family, the station's founders. While the station maintains its original AM tower and transmitter site in Tinton Falls, the studios are now located in nearby Neptune. During the decade of the sixties Wally Dow announced,sold time and otherwise performed all general duties at the station. He was general manager of the station from 1968 until September 1970, when he and his family moved to Florida.

For much of its history WHTG was a daytime only radio station. The station's traditional signoff was Perry Como's recording of "The Lord's Prayer", used every day except for Yom Kippur when a different signoff was used. Relaxing of FCC rules allowed the station to broadcast for two hours after local sunset and now broadcasts around the clock on 500 watts daytime and 126 watts nighttime. Once the station changes over to 126 watts the listening radius is severely diminished.

On Saturdays from 12 noon to 4 PM the "Mr. Wilson's Ice Cream Show" tightens the "Great Gold" format to strictly 1955 to 1964 songs (or as Mr. Wilson puts it: Sounds like 55 to 64").

References

↑ "WHTG Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WHTG

Radio-Locator Information on WHTG

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WHTG

Radio stations in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, New Jersey

By AM frequency	1160 1310 1410

By FM frequency	88.1 88.1 88.3 88.9 89.7 89.9 90.3 90.5 90.7 91.1 91.9 92.7 94.3 95.9 98.5 99.7 100.1 103.9 105.7 106.3 106.5 107.1 107.9

By callsign	WADB WBBO WBNJ WBHX WBJB-FM WCHR-FM WHTG WJLK WJRZ-FM WKMK WMCX-FM WMDI-LP WNJM WNJO WOBM WOBM-FM WPDI WRAT WRDR WTHJ WVBH WWNJ WWZY WYGG WYRS WZBL

Defunct	WBGD 91.9 FM

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Oldies radio stations in the state of New Jersey

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By callsign	WBSS WCMC WGHT WHTG WIBG-FM WMID WMTR WTKU WVLT

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