WWTR

The station signed on December 23, 1971, as WBRW, a middle of the road-formatted station owned by the Somerset Valley Broadcasting Corporation{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/njamhistory6.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020309052300/http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/njamhistory6.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 9, 2002|title=New Jersey AM Radio History|work=Radio-History.com|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} and licensed to Somerville, New Jersey.{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1973|date=1973|page=B-128|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1973/B%202%20YB%201973.pdf|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} The station subsequently shifted to an adult contemporary format, and was later relicensed to Bridgewater. However, WBRW began to lose money during the 1980s, and in 1990 it was taken off-the-air.

The Bridgewater Broadcasting Corporation purchased the license in 1993,{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=187914|title=Application Search Details|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} and brought WBRW back on the air in February 1997. Initially airing its own programming, in December 1997 the station became WSPW and began to simulcast One on One Sports programming from WJWR in Newark (now WSNR in Jersey City).{{cite news|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1997/12/29/1997-12-29_wlib_devotes_tomorrow_to_loo.html|title=WLIB Devotes Tomorrow To Look At '97|last=Hinckley|first=David|date=December 29, 1997|work=Daily News|location=New York|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} The following year, the station was sold to New Jersey Broadcasters and in April 1999 became a simulcast of sister standards station WMTR, under the callsign WWTR. New Jersey Broadcasting was sold to Greater Media in 2001.{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-010514.html|title=Greater Media Buys in New Jersey|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=May 14, 2001|work=North East RadioWatch|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} WMTR and WWTR shifted to a classic oldies format, emphasizing pre-1964 music, in 2004.{{cite news|url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2004/040112/nerw-040112.html|title=WLIR Legend Ends at 92.7|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=January 12, 2004|work=NorthEast Radio Watch|accessdate=February 27, 2010}}

WWTR was leased to EBC Music, Inc. on November 1, 2005, who moved their "EBC Radio" South Asian programming from WTTM.{{cite news|url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2005/051017/nerw.html|title=WPRI's Jack White Dies|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=October 17, 2005|work=NorthEast Radio Watch|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} The station's call letters were then changed to WJJZ for a brief time in 2006 so that Greater Media could transfer that callsign to 97.5 FM in Burlington (now WPEN);{{cite news|url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2006/061030/nerw.html|title=CC Cutbacks in Rochester Claim Five Jobs|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=October 30, 2006|work=NorthEast Radio Watch|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} after this was completed, 1170 returned to WWTR.{{cite news|url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2006/061204/nerw.html|title=WCRB, WKLB Make the Big Switch|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=December 4, 2006|work=NorthEast Radio Watch|accessdate=February 27, 2010}} In 2011 EBC Music ended their lease agreement and bought WWTR.{{cite news|title=Greater Media a little lesser after AM spin-off|url=http://www.rbr.com/radio/radio_deals/greater-media-a-little-lesser-after-am-spin-off.html|accessdate=May 23, 2011|newspaper=Radio Business Report|date=May 23, 2011}}

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Category:Radio stations established in 1971

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