WENJ

Infobox Radio Station
city = Atlantic City, New Jersey
area = Atlantic City, New Jersey
name = WENJ-AM

|‎ slogan = #1 for Sports in Atlantic City | branding = ESPN Radio 1450
frequency = 1450 (kHz)
format = sports
owner = Millennium Atlantic City License Holdco, LLC
website = [http://www.1450espn.com/ http://www.1450espn.com/]
callsign_meaning = WESPN New Jersey

WENJ is the local ESPN Radio affiliate for Atlantic City, New Jersey. Operating with 800 watts by day and 1,000 watts at night, the station can be heard throughout New Jersey's Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May Counties.

Local Sports Coverage

ESPN 1450 is home of Cape=Atlantic League High School football and basketball. It carries games every Friday night during the football season. Most of the games include:
* Absegami High School
* Holy Spirit High School
* Atlantic City
* Mainland
* Pleasantville
* Egg Harbor Twp.
* St. Joe's
* Oakcrest
* St. Augustine

Also from 6-7 on Friday nights, ESPN 1450 has its CAL Preview Show featuring Tom Williams of Prime Events, Pete Thompson of NBC-TV 40 and John Leon a writer from the Mainland Journal.

National Sports Coverage

*NFL on Westwood One
*NFL on SportsUSA (Sunday afternoon)
*NCAA college basketball on Westwood One
*BCS on ESPN Radio
*Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio
*NIT on ESPN Radio

Rutgers Football

For the 2007 football season, ESPN 1450 is carrying Rutgers Football as part of the Rutgers Radio Network.

The Mike Gill Show

The Mike Gill Show is a weekday afternoon talk show from 3pm-6pm. The talk show focuses on the Philadelphia sports scene and the local Atlantic City, New Jersey area sports. The Mike Gill Show's official website is http://www.themikegillshow.com.

"The Gocong and Gaither Show"

Starting on Monday September 10th 2007, ESPN 1450 becmae home of the "Gocong and Gaither Show" and is hosted by Mike Gill. The show will is a live interactive radio show on Monday nights from Chickes and Petes in Egg Harbor Township. Mike Gill will be the host of the "Gocong and Gaither Show", featuring Philadelphia Eagles starting linebackers Chris Gocong and Omar Gaither. The show will run from 7-8pm. And a meet and greet will take place from 8-9pm.

Off-Air StaffPromotional Setup - Marc D

Producers - Ashly Emerson; Pete Giordano; Joe Ryan

History

The 1450 frequency in Atlantic City, NJ, first hit the air waves in 1940 with its original call letters of WFPG, which stood for "World's Famous Play Ground". For several decades, WFPG aired a full service format, which included a mixture of adult standards, big band, and easy listening music, from studios on the world famous Steel Pier on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. It should be noted that WFPG was not related to WPG, a radio station owned by the city of Atlantic City from 1925 to 1938.

Towards the late 1970s, when casino gambling arrived in Atlantic City, WFPG became "Win 1450" and changed its call letters to WIIN. By 1988, the WFPG call letters, which had remained in use on a co-owned FM station, had returned to the AM facility.

For much of the 1990s, syndicated talk programs such as Bob Grant, Mike Gallagher, and Art Bell were mainstays of the station's line-up.

In 1999, WFPG became one of the first affiliates of the Comedy World Radio Network. A year later, Comedy World went out of business and the station resorted to simulcasting WFPG-FM during most hours.

Shortly after entering the new century, WFPG and its sister stations were purchased by the Millennium Radio Group, which also owns New Jersey 101.5 in Trenton. In March, 2002, New Jersey 101.5 began using 1450 as its South Jersey shore simulcast facility, with a call letter change from WFPG to WKXW.

In 2003, the New Jersey 101.5 simulcast moved to WXKW at 97.3 and ESPN Radio sports programming took its place. In June 2006, 1450 AM changed its call letters to WENJ to refect its ESPN Radio branding.

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