WLNG
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| City of license | Sag Harbor, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Nassau-Suffolk, Hamptons-Riverhead |
| Branding | 92.1 The Oldies Station |
| Frequency | 92.1 MHz |
| First air date | August 13, 1963 |
| Format | Oldies |
| Audience share | 5.8 (Sp'08, R&R[1]) |
| ERP | 5,300 watts |
| HAAT | 106 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 39640 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°58′19.00″N 72°20′54.00″W / 40.97194°N 72.34833°W |
| Callsign meaning | LoNG Island |
| Former callsigns | WLNG-FM (1978-1979) |
| Affiliations | CNN Radio |
| Owner | Main Street Broadcasting Co., Inc. |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wlng.com |
WLNG (92.1 FM) is a radio station in Sag Harbor, New York that has earned a reputation as a throwback to an earlier era with its frequent use of jingles, reverb, frequent remote broadcasts at store openings, carnivals and sundry events, and personality disc jockeys.[2] Its transmitter is located on a hill in Noyack, New York which disc jockeys call "Mount Sidney" after station founder Paul Sidney (1940–2009).
It had broadcasts in Monaural till January 20, 2011.
The station's call letters come from Long Island.
The station's target market is the Hamptons of Southampton, New York and East Hampton, New York as well as the North Fork, Suffolk County, New York. The emphasis on advertisements for the local Five and dime, delis and crafts stores have made it popular among the Bonackers (Hamptons locals).[2][3] The station has extensive local news which is considered the best by many locals and is famous for being the definitive source for weather information during major storms.
On July 17, 1996, the station was having a live remote at a carnival in Jamesport, New York when TWA Flight 800 fell out of the sky into the nearby Atlantic Ocean and the station was the first to break the news that something momentous had happened.[3][4]
The station is probably most famous for it using numerous jingles (many from the original PAMS jingle library) often back to back. Paul Sidney who was with the station since the year following its start in 1963 and started the jingle obsession was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine [5] Talk of the Town article in 2002: We're the only station that when we say 'Here comes fourteen in a row' we're not talking about records.
WLNG was one of the first radio stations in the country to focus on playing oldies, although the station included current hits in rotation for decades and even as recently as 1999. Today WLNG's music is almost all oldies.
WLNG also had an AM station at 1600. In 1996 the frequency was sold to WWRL so that it could increase its power. It is owned by Main Street Broadcasting Co., Inc. It broadcasts at 5.3 kW.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Hamptons-Riverhead Market Ratings". Radio & Records. http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRRatings/DefaultSearch.aspx?MarketName=Hamptons-Riverhead&MarketRank=%20.
- ^ a b RADIO; WLNG Found Its Style, And Is Sticking With It - New York Times - October 3, 2004
- ^ a b NYS Broadcasters Association to Welcome WLNG's Sidney into 2007 Hall of Fame - readmedia.com - May 30, 2007
- ^ What About Community? - WLNG.com - Retrieved August 8, 2007
- ^ East End Oldie - New Yorker Magazine - July 22, 2002
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WLNG
- Radio-Locator information on WLNG
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WLNG
- tribute site
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