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Overview
WBGO is a public radio station on 88.3 FM, licensed to Newark, New Jersey. Listeners know it as “WBGO Jazz.” It first signed on in 1948.
License and signal
- Call sign
- WBGO
- Frequency
- 88.3 FM
- Format
- Jazz
- On-air name
- WBGO Jazz
- City of license
- Newark, NJ
- Market
- New York, NY
- Licensee
- Newark Public Radio, Inc.
- Power
- 2,500 watts
- Station class
- B1
- First on air
- 1948
- FCC facility ID
- 48699
- Website
- wbgo.org
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Its programming is listed as jazz. Its schedule includes programs from NPR. Newark Public Radio, Inc. holds the station’s FCC license.
Online, it is at wbgo.org. Newark is in the New York, NY market, where local newspapers include The Star-Ledger.
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WBGO at a glance
- Frequency
- 88.3 FM
- On air as
- WBGO Jazz
- Format
- Jazz
- Licensed to
- Newark, NJ
- Market
- New York, NY








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