WOND

WOND

City	Pleasantville, New Jersey
Broadcast area	Atlantic City, New Jersey
Branding	News Talk 1400 WOND
Slogan	South Jersey's only News/Talk Station!
Frequency	1400 kHz
Translator(s)	92.5 W223CO (Atlantic City)
First air date	July 1950
Format	News/Talk
Power	1,000 watts
Class	C
Facility ID	61102
Transmitter coordinates	39°23′24″N 74°30′45″W / 39.39000°N 74.51250°W / 39.39000; -74.51250
Owner	Longport Media LLC. (Longport Media LLC.)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wondradio.com

WOND (1400 AM) is an American news-talk radio station from Pleasantville, New Jersey, broadcasting to the Atlantic City, New Jersey, radio market. In the 1960s it was a Top 40 radio station, and its morning show was hosted by Bob Weems, one of the area's most well-remembered DJs. The station was home to the long-running Pinky's Corner, hosted by the late Pinky Kravitz. The show has called WOND home for 53 years.

WOND is the leading news-talk station in southern New Jersey. It is one of the Atlantic City market's legacy radio stations, first going on the air in July 1950. As of November 2015, weekday programming on WOND includes The Jim Bohannon Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, America in the Morning, The Don Williams Show, Barbara Altman's Front Porch and The Matworld Show hosted by Mat Toenniessen. The station features locally produced news, weather and traffic. Weekend programming includes a mix of local programming like Jim MacMillan's Weekend Journal, The Marc Berman Show, Your Neighborhood Garage, and Fire and Ice. Syndicated programming includes Handel on the Law, In The Garden with Ron Wilson, and The Kim Komando Show.^[1]

Jessica Savitch began her career as a teen DJ on a show called Teen Talk in 1962.^[2] 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.

References

↑ "On Air Schedule". News Talk 1400 AM WOND. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
↑ Wilkinson, Gerry (2006). "Jessica Beth Savitch". Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia. Retrieved September 5, 2011.

External links

WOND official website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WOND

Radio-Locator Information on WOND

Radio stations in the Atlantic City–Cape May market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 88.9 89.1 89.7 90.3 90.5 90.5 91.3 91.7 92.7 93.1 94.3 95.1 96.1 96.9 97.3 98.3 98.7 99.3 100.7 101.5 102.3 102.7 103.7 104.9 105.5 106.3 106.5 107.3

By AM frequency	1020 1230 1340 1400 1450 1490 1580

By callsign	WAIV WAJM WAYV WBSS WCFA-LP WCMC WCZT WEHA WENJ WEZW WFPG WGBZ WGYM WIBG WIBG-FM WJPG WJSE WLFR WLOM-LP WMGM WMID WNJN-FM WNJZ WOND WPGG WPUR WRTQ WSJO WTHJ WTKU-FM WTTH WWAC WWCJ WWFP WXGN WZBZ WZXL

New Jersey radio markets Atlantic City–Cape May Middlesex–Somerset–Union Monmouth–Ocean Morristown Sussex Trenton Other New Jersey radio regions Vineland–Millville–Bridgeton See also List of radio stations in New Jersey

News/Talk radio stations in the state of New Jersey

Stations	WADB – Asbury Park WDEL-FM – Canton WKXW – Trenton WNYM – Hackensack WOBM – Lakewood Township WOND – Pleasantville WPGG – Atlantic City

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New Jersey

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