Engineering studies indicate that, potentially, over one million new people may be reached and reception dramatically improved for many current listeners in greater New York City and Northern New Jersey. Once a site has been chosen, WBGO will embark on a fund-raising campaign to raise the monies necessary to build and maintain the new facility.
“Relocating the antenna and transmitter will help us bring the uniquely American art form of Jazz to an even wider radio audience, while Newark and north and central New Jersey will continue to receive strong signals,” stated WBGO General Manager Cephas Bowles. “In spite of relocating the station’s transmission facility to Manhattan, WBGO’s central base of operation will remain in Newark,” and Bowles added, “WBGO, and its parent organization, Newark Public Radio, Inc., are committed to Newark, our home for the last 30 years.”
About WBGO:
WBGO/Jazz88.3FM serves the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area with mainstream jazz, blues, and award-winning news and public affairs programming. Non- commercial WBGO is supported by nearly 17,000 annual members and has over 400,000 weekly broadcast listeners. WBGO also streams its broadcast signal to audiences worldwide at WBGO. WBGO was named the “Jazz Station of the Year” by the Gavin Report and Jazz Week, and is also the recipient of the Blues Foundation’s “Keeping the Blues Alive Award” for Achievement in Non-Commercial Radio. WBGO is a publicly-supported, cultural institution that champions jazz, an American art form, and presents news to a worldwide audience through radio, other technologies and events.
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