WWJZ

WWJZ (640 AM) is a Christian Talk broadcast radio station licensed to Mount Holly, New Jersey, serving the Delaware Valley. The station is owned and operated by Relevant Radio. The transmitter is located near the intersection of US-206 and CR-530 in Pemberton Township, New Jersey, and station offices in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

History

Prior to Radio Disney, WWJZ was owned by John Farina, the originator of the sound adopted by Al Ham's Music of your Life format. Farina's dream was to re-establish the signal he had on 1460 kHz in Mount Holly in the 1960s as WJJZ. With the help of his long-time friend and engineer, Ted Schober, he got New Jersey its first 50 kilowatt AM radio station in many years and was able to put his beloved sound on the air again.

The sounds of Brook Benton, Tommy Dorsey, Margaret Whiting, Doris Day, Frankie Laine and many others covered the east coast from Cape Cod to Cape Hattaras from October 1992 into 1993, emanating from an ancient General Electric transmitter of the type used by the venerable WJZ in its days as flagship of the NBC Blue Network. Then a bitter dispute between Farina and his financier-landlord, Edgar Cramer, put WWJZ off the air in August 1993.