WPHI-FM

WPHI-FM
City	Pennsauken, New Jersey
Broadcast area	Greater Philadelphia (Delaware Valley)
Branding	Boom 107.9
Slogan	Throwback Hip-Hop
Frequency	107.9 (MHz) (also on HD Radio)
First air date	February 25, 2005
Format	Classic hip-hop
ERP	780 watts
HAAT	276 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	12211
Transmitter coordinates	39°57′09″N 75°10′05″W / 39.95250°N 75.16806°W / 39.95250; -75.16806
Callsign meaning	We're PHIladelphia!
Former callsigns	WSNJ-FM (1950s-2000) WPPZ (2000-2005) WRNB (2005-2011)
Former frequencies	98.9 (1950s) 107.7 (1960s-2000)
Owner	Radio One (Radio One Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations	WPPZ, WRNB
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	boom1079philly.com

WPHI-FM, "Boom 107.9", is a radio station owned by Radio One, that airs a classic hip-hop format. The station is licensed to Pennsauken, New Jersey and serves the Philadelphia market. It has studios located in Bala Cynwyd and broadcasts from a transmitter spire on top of One Liberty Place in Center City Philadelphia.

107.9 History

The station originally operated as WSNJ-FM in Bridgeton, New Jersey, first broadcasting on 98.9 in the 1950s before moving to 107.7. In the early 2000s, the station's frequency and city of license were changed to allow it to move into the more lucrative Philadelphia market. To clear space on the FM band for the new operation, high school station WHHS was moved from 107.9 to 99.9 MHz and a Philadelphia translator of classical station WWFM was taken off the air. During transmitter testing, 107.9 used the call letters WPPZ and broadcast gospel music; owner Radio One eventually gave that call sign and format a permanent home in the market on 103.9 FM. Before WRNB went on the air in 2004, the call letters were used for a Radio One-owned sister station in Dayton, Ohio, now called WROU-FM.

On September 1, 2011, Radio One moved WRNB's programming to 100.3, and the Urban Contemporary format of WPHI-FM (which moved away from rhythmic contemporary earlier that year) moved to the weaker signal 107.9 FM as "Hot 107.9" (after stunting that weekend as "Michael Vick Radio" and "Rickey Smiley Radio") on September 4 at 5PM. The first song on Hot was Hot In Herre by Nelly.

On November 6, 2014, at 7 PM, WPHI dropped the "Hot" format and became the third classic hip-hop station in the United States (following KDAY/KDEY in Los Angeles and sister station KROI in Houston) as "Boom 107.9". The last song on "Hot" was I Like It by Sevyn Streeter, while the first song on "Boom" was 99 Problems by Jay-Z.

Former Logo

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WPHI

Radio-Locator information on WPHI

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WPHI

Radio stations in the Philadelphia market

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NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.475

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Urban Contemporary Radio Stations in the state of New Jersey

Stations	Hip-Hop WPHI-FM - Pennsauken Urban AC WTTH - Margate City

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Radio One

Key people

Cathy Hughes (Chairman and CEO)

Radio shows

The Tom Joyner Morning Show (via Reach Media under contract)
Russ Parr Morning Show (via AURN)
The Yolanda Adams Morning Show
The Donnie Simpson Show

Radio stations

Mainstream urban	KBFB KBXX WCDX WCKX WENZ WERQ-FM WGPR¹ WHHL WHTA WIZF WKYS WQNC WQOK

Urban adult contemporary	KMJQ WAMJ WBMO WDMK WFXC WFXK WKJM WKJS WMMJ WRNB WTLC-FM WUMJ WWIN-FM WZAK

Urban gospel	WJMO WNNL WPPZ-FM WPRS-FM WPZE WPZR WPZS WPZZ WTLC WWIN WYCB

Urban talk	WCHB WDBZ WERE WOL WOLB WTPS

CHR	WNOW-FM

Rhythmic CHR	WHHH

Rhythmic Oldies	WFUN-FM WOSF WOSL

Classic hip hop	KROI KSOC WPHI-FM W275BK

China Radio International	WILD

Other

WDNI-CD (Telemundo) TV One Interactive One

¹ Owned by International Free and Accepted Modern Masons and operated by Radio One under an LMA.

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