WBGO

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History

WBGO's first license was granted on January 26, 1947.<ref>FCC Query License and technical data on WBGO</ref> Originally owned by the Newark Board of Education with studios in Central High School, it was established as the first public radio station in New Jersey when in 1979 the broadcast license was transferred to Newark Public Radio in cooperation with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WBGO then became affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and went to a 24-hour broadcast format in 1980.

While WBGO's base of operations remain in Newark, the station's broadcast antenna and transmission system moved to Midtown Manhattan on December 30, 2011.

WBGO was one of two major FM jazz stations in the New York City metropolitan area, along with smooth jazz station WQCD until 2008, when that station flipped to a rock format, leaving WBGO as the New York area's only jazz station.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• List of jazz radio stations in the United States
• Institute of Jazz Studies
• Art Vincent, host of The Art of Jazz

External links

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