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...WJSV 90.5 FM, THE 411

WJSV is a student-run radio station in Morristown, New Jersey.



WJSV is run by students of Morristown High School and owned by the Morris School District. WJSV, was purchased by the Morris School District in 1971. We broadcast Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 10:00 pm while school is in session. WJSV's Main Transmitter is located at the Mountain Way School in Morris Plains, NJ. Currently, the station is completely run by students. The executive staff includes; Station Manager, Program Director, Music Director, News Director, Production Manager, Sports Director, Promotions, and Engineering. 



WJSV originally came on the air in 1926 as WTRC in Brooklyn, New York. It then moved to Arlington, Virginia, the following year and became WJSV in 1928. CBS bought the station from the previous owner in 1931, and officially moved the station to Washington, D.C. WJSV was the affiliate for CBS radio in the nation's capital.


Among the more famous events involving WJSV was the recording of its entire broadcast day on September 21, 1939. The recording includes many famous radio programs of the time. including Amos 'n Andy and Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour), local programs featuring Arthur Godfrey and John Charles Daly before their national successes, a Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators baseball game, and a speech by President Franklin Roosevelt. The recording was saved in the National Archives and still exists today; many old time radio websites have excerpts of the WJSV broadcast day and offer copies for sale. A sampling of the material broadcast that day was featured on the 70th anniversary of the event on National Public Radio's All Things Considered of September 21, 2009, also there is a copy of the entire broadcast on the Internet Archive web page .
WJSV changed its call letters to WTOP in 1943; the station is still on the air to this day.

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