WSJW (AM)

WSJW (550 AM) is a radio station licensed to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, serving the Providence area. The station is owned by Starboard Media Foundation and airs Catholic talk programming.

History

In 1948, a construction permit was issued for 500 watts on 1380 kilocycles for Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The station went on the air in 1950 as WPAW, becoming WXTR in the 1960s. In 1972 the call letters changed to WGNG ("Gold-N-Great") with the station adopting an oldies format. It quickly switched to Top 40 in early 1973, then to "mellow rock" in the spring of 1977. Around 1980 the station returned to its "Gold-N-Great" format. The next callsign change occurred on Halloween 1985 when the station changed its call letters to WICE (which were vacated from 1290 in Providence). With a change in ownership & format it became a simulcast of Boston's all business-talk WBNW as WPNW. The WPNW call became official on June 16, 1995. After 2 years of business talk it changed on December 12, 1997 to WLKW. On July 17, 2000 the WICE calls returned, and on May 16, 2001, after joining Radio Disney, the station became WDDZ.

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