WBGO

WBGO (88.3 FM, "Jazz 88") is a public radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. Studios and offices are located on Park Place in downtown Newark, and its transmitter is located at 4 Times Square in Manhattan. The station primarily plays jazz music.[2] In addition the station airs public affairs programming, locally produced newscasts, traffic reports from Total Traffic during morning and afternoon rush hours, and NPR-produced newscasts and programming.

This article is about the Newark, New Jersey radio station. For the airport in Lio Matu, Malaysia assigned the ICAO code WBGO, see List of airports by ICAO code: W § Malaysia.
WBGO
Broadcast areaNorth Jersey
New York City
Frequency88.3 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingWBGO Jazz 88
Programming
FormatJazz
SubchannelsHD2: "The Jazz Bee" (Jazz)
AffiliationsNPR
Ownership
OwnerNewark Public Radio
History
First air date
1948
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID48699
ClassB1
ERP2,500 watts
HAAT269.2 meters (883 ft)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen Live
Websitewbgo.org

History

WBGO's first license was granted on January 26, 1947.[3] Originally owned by the Newark Board of Education with studios in Central High School, it was established as the first public radio station in New Jersey when in 1979 the broadcast license was transferred to Newark Public Radio in cooperation with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WBGO then became affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and went to a 24-hour broadcast format in 1980.

While WBGO's base of operations remain in Newark, the station's broadcast antenna and transmission system moved to Midtown Manhattan on December 30, 2011.

WBGO was one of two major FM jazz stations in the New York City metropolitan area, along with smooth jazz station WQCD until 2008, when that station flipped to a rock format, leaving WBGO as the New York area's only jazz station.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Facility Technical Data for WBGO". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. Gorce, Tammy La (29 January 2020). "Behind the Racial Uproar at One of the World's Best Jazz Stations". The New York Times.
  3. FCC Query License and technical data on WBGO
  4. "I was fired for calling out 'blatant racism' at N.J. Radio station, ex-employee says". 30 January 2020.

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