Allen Lewis was hired as the new program director and it became a 24-hour station.įor many years WAWZ carried teaching programs, talk shows, church services, and traditional Christian music.
The challenge alleged that the station did not serve the public good. In 1980, there was a challenge to its license. Overall, the format was similar to what Family Radio and BBN offered back then as well as being musically close. They did not sell time in a traditional way but took a percentage of donations each ministry received from WAWZ's listening area. The rest of the time they ran teaching and preaching programs by various Christian groups. They played traditional Christian music about 6 to 8 hours a day.
By the late 1960s, WAWZ evolved into a Traditional Christian Music and Teaching station. The broadcast format was eighteen hours a day of classical music along with Pillar of Fire church services. WAWZ-FM began broadcasting on August 22, 1954. With WAWZ (AM) gone, WAWZ-FM dropped the -FM suffix on October 8, 1984, becoming just WAWZ. On September 1, 1984, WAWZ sold its part-time AM operation to New York station WBNX (now christened WKDM.) On WAWZ's final day, they produced a special program recalling the station's 53 years of religious broadcasting, and by electrical transcription, once again featured the voice of Alma White. WAWZ was the second station owned by the Pillar of Fire Church. In later years, on 1380 AM, it shared time with WBNX in New York City. The station was first assigned a frequency on 1350 AM, sharing time equally with three other stations, WCDA, WBNX and WMSG. Formerly headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the organization was given land in 1906, in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. WAWZ was founded in 1931 by Bishop Alma White and the Pillar of Fire Church. In 2017, WAWZ updated their slogan to "Uplifting Star 99.1" influenced by the overwhelming response of their listeners who expressed how uplifting their music was for them. In this format its tagline was WAWZ - Your Voice of Faith and Inspiration. In later years inspirational contemporary Christian music and mostly syndicated Christian teaching and talk shows were added. Its original format was traditional and classical music and church services. WAWZ began airing its current format as Star 99.1 on February 3, 2003. The call letters for the station, like its AM counterpart which went off the air in 1984, were chosen to honor Bishop Alma White, who was the founder of the Pillar of Fire Church and Zarephath, the community of license. The Class B, 28,000-watt signal based in Bridgewater, New Jersey serves the New York City market along with northern and central New Jersey. The station's target demographic is 25- to 54-year-olds. It is a listener supported/commercial radio station owned by the Pillar of Fire International.
WAWZ (99.1 FM) is a contemporary Christian music radio station located in Zarephath, New Jersey.
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