History

WYRS first went on the air at 4:00 PM on March 27, 1995 with a mix of Christian and community programming. Originally, broadcasts were in mono

Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...

 and the station was only on the air on a part-time schedule. The studios were in a 18'X 25' space in Station Manager Bob Wick's basement and the station leased room on the Manahawkin transmitter tower of WJRZ. Studio equipment was a mix of broadcast equipment discarded by other radio stations and consumer-grade audio components (cassette

Compact Cassette

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

 and CD players and turntables

Phonograph

The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...

). The staff was (and remains to this day) entirely volunteer.

The original schedule was: 4:30 pm-11:00 pm (Mon-Fri)/12:30 pm-10:30 pm (Sat)/3 pm-11 pm (Sun)

During the summer of 1996, the station expanded its broadcast hours to 7:00 am-midday daily. By the summer of 1997, it was broadcasting 24 hours a day in stereo

STEREO

STEREO is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth...

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On July 10, 2007, WYRS began broadcasting from its new location, which was the former marine coastal radio station WSC.

Programming

Some slogans that WYRS uses are "Community Radio With A Christian Perspective", "Tune In and Tell A Friend" and "We're Your Radio Station."

Programming on WYRS is mostly satellite-delivered. Locally produced programs include an hour block weekday evenings where local churches air edited versions of their Sunday sermons; "Ain't Misbehavin'", a bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 themed program on Saturday mornings; "The Setback", featuring Big Band music on Saturday afternoons and "Reflections", a show hosted by Bob Wick, the general manager of WYRS, on Saturday evenings. WYRS carries USA News at the top of every hour and simulcasts the audio portion of NJN

New Jersey Network

The New Jersey Network, or NJN, was a network of public television and radio stations serving the U.S. state of New Jersey. NJN was a member of the Public Broadcasting Service for television and the National Public Radio for radio, broadcasting their programming as well as producing and...

news Monday-Friday evenings.

WYRS also hosts live remote broadcasts each year from Manahawkin Founder's Day.

90.7 was originally given the WAGB call letters on December 17, 1993 and then switched to WYRS on January 31, 1994.