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===Beautiful music=== WPAT-FM [[signed on]] the air in {{Start date and age|1957|3}}.<REF>[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1961-62/section%20B%20All%20Radio%20%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201961-1962-9.pdf ''Broadcasting Yearbook 1961-1962'' page B-105. Retrieved Oct. 29, 2024]</REF> It was the FM [[sister station]] of [[WPAT (AM)|WPAT]] [[930 AM]], with studios in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. Its frequency of 93.1 MHz had previously been assigned to [[Edwin Howard Armstrong]]'s pioneering FM station based in [[Alpine, New Jersey]], [[KE2XCC]]. That station went [[off the air]] in 1954 with Major Armstrong's death. This was the second station to hold the WPAT-FM [[call sign]]. An earlier [[WPAT-FM (1949β1951)|WPAT-FM]], originally called WNNJ, had operated on 103.5 MHz from 1949 until its deletion in early 1951. WPAT-AM-FM had a [[beautiful music]] format for nearly four decades.<ref>[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1980/C%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201980.pdf ''Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook 1980'' page C-145. Retrieved Oct. 29, 2024.]</ref> The stations aired quarter-hour sweeps of instrumental music, mostly [[cover version]]s of popular adult songs, [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] and [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] [[show tune]]s. Over time, some vocal songs were added. The station was playing four vocals per quarter-hour by the late 1970's. To help the station sound more contemporary, by the 1980s, more soft rock vocals were mixed in. By 1992, vocals made up half of the [[playlist]]. Beginning in January 1993, WPAT-FM had made the transition to [[soft adult contemporary]].<REF>[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1994/B-All-Radio-BC-YB-1994-B&W.pdf ''Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1994'' page B-238. Retrieved Oct. 29, 2024]</REF> On October 1, 1994, the station moved to a mainstream adult contemporary format, purging most weekend specialty programming.
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