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WJAS

WJAS
Broadcast areaPittsburgh metropolitan area
Frequency1320 kHz
BrandingTalk Radio 1320 and 99.1 WJAS
Programming
FormatTalk
News
AffiliationsPremiere Networks
Westwood One
Fox News Radio
Ownership
OwnerSt. Barnabas Broadcasting, Inc.
WBUT, WBVP, WMBA, WISR, WLER-FM
History
First air date
August 4, 1922
Former call signs
WJAS (1922-1957)
WAMP (1957-1960)
WJAS (1960-1973)
WKPQ (1973)
WKTQ (1973-1981)
Technical information
Facility ID55705
ClassB
Power7,000 watts day
3,300 watts night
99 watts (translator)
Translator(s)99.1 W256DE (Pittsburgh)
Links
WebcastListen Live
Website1320wjas.com

WJAS (1320 AM) is a commercial radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station has a talk radio format. It is owned by St. Barnabas Broadcasting, a division of the Saint Barnabas Health System, with studios and offices on Fleet Street in Green Tree.

The transmitter site is off Highland Drive in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh. WJAS broadcasts with 7,000 watts non-directional by day. At night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1320 AM, it reduces power to 3,300 watts and uses a directional antenna.[1]

Programming is also heard on a 99-watt FM translator, W256DE, at 99.1 MHz.[2]

Programming

Weekdays begin with a morning drive time show hosted by GD. Nationally syndicated conservative talk shows fill the rest of the schedule: Glenn Beck, Dan Bongino, Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey, Mark Levin, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.

Weekends feature shows on money, health, car repair and technology. Weekend syndicated hosts include Joe Pags, Kim Komando and Bill Cunningham. Some weekend hours are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with news from Fox News Radio.

WJAS is the home to University of Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball games as well as Duquesne Dukes football and men's basketball games.

History

Early years

Effective December 1, 1921, the Commerce Department, which regulated radio at this time, adopted regulations formally defining "broadcasting stations". The wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) was designated for entertainment broadcasts, while 485 meters (619 kHz) was reserved for broadcasting official weather and other government reports.[3] Because there was only one available "entertainment" wavelength, stations in a given region had to develop timesharing agreements, in order to assign exclusive timeslots for broadcasting on 360 meters.

WJAS was first licensed on August 4, 1922, to the Pittsburgh Radio Supply House, operating on 360 meters.[4] It was Pittsburgh's sixth AM broadcasting station authorization.[a] The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs.

WJAS carried NBC's dramas, comedies, news and sports during the last years of the Golden Age of Radio. During the 1930s and 1940s, WJAS was home to the Wilkens Amateur Hour. Sponsored by Wilkens Jewelry Company, a 1942 review in the trade publication Billboard said the show "remains Pittsburgh's most popular local program".[5]

On November 1, 1957, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) gained control of WJAS and WJAS-FM, adding them to their roster of network owned-and-operated stations.[6] Later that month the call letters were changed to WAMP and WFMP, which was derived from "AM and FM Pittsburgh".[7] Three years later, both stations changed back to their original call letters.[8]

Top 40 era

In 1973, the station became popular with a new format as Top 40 WKPQ, later WKTQ, using the branding "13Q", under new owners Heftel Communications. A promotion was run where listeners would win prizes if they were randomly telephoned and answered with "I listen to the new sound of 13Q" (instead of "hello"). The Top 40 years were the highest-rated ever for the station, ranking second in the Arbitron ratings behind only KDKA.

As young listeners moved to FM for music, the WKTQ's ratings began to fade. In 1977, Heftel sold the station to Nationwide Communications, which tried an adult contemporary format, which was also unsuccessful.

Adult standards

Nationwide sold the station to Beni Broadcasting, which switched the station to an adult standards format and brought back the WJAS call letters in 1981. Beni eventually sold WJAS to Renda Broadcasting. WJAS was one of the top standards stations in the United States. The format of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Barbra Streisand continued for three decades.

WJAS boasted of two personalities with long and storied histories in Pittsburgh media: Jack Bogut and Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille.

In August 2014, Renda Broadcasting sold WJAS to Pittsburgh Radio Partners LLC, a company controlled by Frank Iorio, Jr. The sale, at a price of $1 million, was consummated on August 1, 2014. It was Iorio's first radio station purchase in Pittsburgh, as his other stations were all based in Warren. Iorio put the Warren stations up for sale in 2017, finding a buyer in Lilly Broadcasting in 2019.

Talk radio

At noon on August 7, 2014, the new owner changed the station to a conservative talk format in response to rumors that WPGB would flip formats from talk to country music.[9] The final song played under the standards format was "One More for the Road" by Frank Sinatra.

WJAS then began carrying most of the programs previously heard on WPGB (a station that directed its listeners to WJAS as it prepared to change formats). The first program to air on the talk-formatted WJAS was The Rush Limbaugh Show. WJAS did not choose to carry WPGB's signature morning drive program "Quinn and Rose", which returned to the Pittsburgh radio market on WBGG in 2018. In March 2021, after Limbaugh's death, rather than carrying its successor The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the station hired Rose Somma-Tennent. Former Pittsburgh TV news anchor Wendy Bell hosted from 9 a.m. to noon from January to May 2021, before an unresolved and unspecified "personnel matter" prompted the ownership to cancel Bell's show.[10] Somma-Tennent was unexpectedly fired from the station in late June in favor of Dan Bongino.[11]

In November 2020, Iorio exited radio and sold WJAS and translator W256DE to St. Barnabas Health System for $2.05 million.[12] The sale was consummated on January 13, 2021.

Notes

  1. ^ The first five Pittsburgh broadcasting stations were: KDKA, Westinghouse Electric & Mfg Co, November 7, 1921; KQV, Doubleday-Hill Electric Company, January 9, 1922; WPB, Newspaper Printing Company, January 10, 1922, to May 5, 1922; WCAE, Kaufman & Baer Company, May 3, 1922; and WHAF, Radio Electric Company, June 30, 1922, to February 20, 1923.

References

  1. ^ "WJAS-AM 1320 kHz Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" (radio-locator.com)
  2. ^ "W256DE-FM 99.1 MHz Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" (radio-locator.com)
  3. ^ "Miscellaneous: Amendments to Regulations", Radio Service Bulletin, January 3, 1922, page 10.
  4. ^ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, September 1, 1922, page 3.
  5. ^ Frank, Mort (January 3, 1942). "Program Reviews: Wilkens Amateur Hour". Billboard. p. 8. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  6. ^ "NBC buys WJAS Pittsburgh", Broadcasting - Telecasting, August 12, 1957, pg. 9.
  7. ^ "NBC Changes Pittsburgh Calls", Broadcasting, November 18, 1957, page 9.
  8. ^ "For the Record: Existing AM stations: Call Letters Assigned", Broadcasting, November 28, 1960, page 88.
  9. ^ "WJAS sale finalized; format expected to change" by Pat Cloonan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 4, 2014 (triblive.com)
  10. ^ Lance Venta (May 10, 2021). "Wendy Bell off WJAS Schedule". (radioinsight.com).
  11. ^ Eric Heyl (June 21, 2021). "Longtime Pittsburgh Talk Show Host off the Airwaves". (patch.com).
  12. ^ "WJAS/Pittsburgh Sold; Price for WFUN-F/St. Louis Spin-Off $8 Million". (allaccess.com). November 16, 2020.

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