Newark Broadcast Series

AM 1430 Newsroom’s mission is to create, produce, and broadcast radio programming that meets the concerns, needs, and interests of the Greater Newark population. We create more opportunities for diverse programming of exceptional quality, interest, and importance to reach the diverse greater Newark listening audience.

The company enables terrestrial radio programs to audition pieces and download broadcast-quality audio to share with their listeners over the air or online. AM 1430 Newsroom catalogs thousands of pieces and allows users to search by topic, length, format, tone and time of the year.

The AM 1430 Newsroom provides a community space open to public radio listeners, producers and stations, where users can discover, and rate and review pieces. In addition to providing feedback, the rating system brings work to the attention of stations, which are able to sort pieces by their rating. When a piece is licensed by a station PRX provides the producer with a royalty.

An organization made up of key diverse individuals, groups and organizations representing each of the segments which make up business, civic, and government sectors which make up the greater Newark, New Jersey area.

In 1928 the FCC assigned the 1400kc frequency to be shared among five existing Brooklyn-based stations, WSGH, WSDA, WLTH, WCGU, and WBBC. BY 1941, the four remaining stations WVFW (formerly WSGH) WLTH, WARD (formerly WCGH) and WBBC merged to form WBYN, which started operating at 1430kc. WBYN Brooklyn’s Owned Station was sold to the Newark Evening News in 1946 and the call letters were changed to WNJR in 1947.

Alan Freed’s first New York area show was heard on WNJR, which featured Rhythm & Blues from the early 1950s through the early 1990s. The national broadcasting industry will always remember WNJR Radio as being one of three radio pioneers to bring the sounds of Rock and Roll from the Beatles to the British Invasion to the New York City area along with WABC and WINS Radio.

Under new ownership in the late 1980s and into early 1990s the station switched from mult-ethnic format to an Adult Standard format. On March 22, 1999 the call letters was changed to WNSW and on January 1, 2000 the Radio Studio was moved from Newark to Manhattan. The Adult Standard format was replaced by Chinese Language programming on March 1, 2001

On March 1, 2002, the Chinese language programming on WNSW moved to WZRC 1480, while the Korean language programming heard on WZRC moved to WNSW.

WNSW radio currently does not broadcast to the interest or needs of the community to which it is licensed to.

Community of License is still Newark, New Jersey

In 2003, the Commissioners of the Federal Communication Commission upheld a 1927 FCC Rule on "Localism" in granting broadcast licenses to broadcast over the airwaves in this country. In a Charlotte, North Carolina Public Hearing on October 22, 2003, in his opening statement FCC Commissioner Jonathon S Adelstein defined "Localism" as every broadcaster’s responsibility to be responsive to the community of their license. It's a broadcaster’s commitment to local news and public affairs programming and a lot more."

"It means providing opportunities for local self-expression, it means reaching out, developing and promoting local performing artists and other local talent. It means making programming decisions that serve local needs. It means making sure coverage reflects the makeup of the community they serve. The licensees as the obligation to cover what are events and situations, to get people aware and informed about their respective communities.