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WOND (1400 AM broadcasting) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pleasantville, New Jersey, and serving the Atlantic City radio market. It is owned by Longport Media and broadcasts a Conservative talk radio radio format. Its studios and offices are located offshore in Linwood, New Jersey.
WOND is powered at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna, its transmitter is on Old Turnpike in Pleasantville, near the Atlantic City Expressway. Radio-Locator.com/WOND
Weekend syndicated hosts include Bill Handel, The Kim Komando Show and Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio.
In the 1960s, it was a Top 40 radio station, and its morning show was hosted by Bob Weems, one of the area's best-remembered DJs. The station was home to the long-running Pinky's Corner, hosted by Seymour "Pinky" Kravitz. The show called WOND home for 57 years before his retirement and death in 2015.
TV journalist Jessica Savitch began her career as a teen DJ on a show called Teen Talk in 1962. She used "Wild Weekend" as a theme song. She called herself "Wonda" for a short time. The station also launched the career of Tom Lamaine, long-time radio personality at WIP-FM in Philadelphia and then at KYW-TV.
"First Lady of the Airwaves" Barbara Altman also broadcast her weekday call-in show Barbara Altman's Front Porch from WOND for decades.
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