Tuesday, October 16, 2012

New Talker Starts Up In Atlantic City


Local and syndicated talk hit the airwaves Monday when WENJ-AM 1450 gets a new format and new call letters, according to the Press ofAtlantic City.

Hurley
The schedule of WPG Talk Radio 1450 will feature local talk radio host Harry Hurley being joined on the airwaves by national talk radio broadcasters Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, among others. The station had been broadcasting sports programming as ESPN-1450, both owned by Townsquare Media LLC.

"The idea is that we are going to have a healthy blend of live and local (programming) that people enjoy and some of the biggest names in the country," said Hurley, who was named senior programming consultant for WPG. "Glenn Beck is not in this market. Sean Hannity is not in this market. People are going to notice."

The change brings an all-talk format back to 1450 AM  and returns classic radio call letters to the Atlantic City area. The WPG call letters were originally used by a municipal radio station operated by Atlantic City out of Boardwalk Hall in the 1920s and 1930s. The letters stand for "The World's Playground."

The new schedule includes "Hurley in the Morning" talk show from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. weekdays. The rest of the weekday schedule includes Beck from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Hannity from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., conservative commentator Mark Levin from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., John Batchelor's news magazine from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and "Red Eye Radio" from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. "Red Eye Radio" is hosted by Eric Harley and Garry McNamara.

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