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WBZC (88.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation in Pemberton, New Jersey, United States. At 10,000 watts, the station served Burlington County, Southern New Jersey and metro Philadelphia region, making it one of the most powerful college radio stations in the country. WBZC's frequency allocation was made possible after The University of Pennsylvania's WXPN in Philadelphia moved from 88.9 FM to its present frequency of 88.5 FM in 1991. Previously owned by Rowan College, the station is now fully owned by Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation.
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| dbo:abstract | WBZC (88.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation in Pemberton, New Jersey, United States. At 10,000 watts, the station served Burlington County, Southern New Jersey and metro Philadelphia region, making it one of the most powerful college radio stations in the country. WBZC's frequency allocation was made possible after The University of Pennsylvania's WXPN in Philadelphia moved from 88.9 FM to its present frequency of 88.5 FM in 1991. Previously owned by Rowan College, the station is now fully owned by Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation. WBZC began broadcasting in January 1995, and in 1996 was named the number one college radio station in America based on listenership, large coverage area in the nation's fourth-largest radio market and unique programming and content, the award was bestowed by the National Association of College Broadcasters in Providence Rhode Island. The station was a platform launching many careers of prominent broadcasters in the industry today. With the moving of the Pemberton campus of Burlington County College, the station ceased its regional programming and transmission on January 18, 2018. After being sold to Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation in March 2019, WBZC came back on the air with Word FM and Rowan College's part of the radio station becoming a popular online music and information radio station known as RCBC Radio with a downloadable app heard worldwide on TuneIn and Amazon Alexa. Today, WBZC-FM broadcasts 10,000 watts of Christian radio across the Delaware Valley. (en) |
| dbo:alias | Word FM (en) |
| dbo:broadcastStationClass | B1 |
| dbo:city | dbr:Pemberton,_New_Jersey dbr:New_Jersey |
| dbo:facilityId | 7844 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:frequency | 88900000.000000 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:heightAboveAverageTerrain | 67.000000 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:programmeFormat | dbr:Contemporary_Christian_music |
| dbo:sisterStation | dbr:WBYO |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | http://www.wordfm.org |
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| dbp:airdate | January 1995 (en) |
| dbp:area | Southern New Jersey, Metro Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley region (en) |
| dbp:branding | Word FM (en) |
| dbp:city | dbr:Pemberton,_New_Jersey dbr:New_Jersey |
| dbp:class | B1 (en) |
| dbp:erp | 10000 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:facilityId | 7844 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:format | dbr:Contemporary_Christian_music |
| dbp:frequency | 88.9 |
| dbp:haat | 67.0 |
| dbp:name | WBZC-FM (en) |
| dbp:owner | Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation (en) |
| dbp:sisterStations | dbr:WBYO |
| dbp:website | http://www.wordfm.org |
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| dcterms:subject | dbc:Christian_radio_stations_in_New_Jersey dbc:1995_establishments_in_New_Jersey dbc:Radio_stations_established_in_1995 |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Station |
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| rdfs:comment | WBZC (88.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation in Pemberton, New Jersey, United States. At 10,000 watts, the station served Burlington County, Southern New Jersey and metro Philadelphia region, making it one of the most powerful college radio stations in the country. WBZC's frequency allocation was made possible after The University of Pennsylvania's WXPN in Philadelphia moved from 88.9 FM to its present frequency of 88.5 FM in 1991. Previously owned by Rowan College, the station is now fully owned by Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation. (en) |
| rdfs:label | WBZC (en) |
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| geo:lat | 39.842777 (xsd:float) |
| geo:long | -74.544441 (xsd:float) |
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| foaf:homepage | http://www.wordfm.org |
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| foaf:name | WBZC-FM (en) |
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