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WIFI (AM)

WIFI (1460 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Florence, New Jersey, and serving the Delaware Valley. It is owned by Ritmo Broadcasting, but operated by The Voice Radio Network. It airs a Spanish contemporary hit radio format. Its studios are on Broad Street in Trenton, New Jersey.

By day, WIFI is powered at 5,000 watts, and at night, it reduces power to 500 watts to protect other stations on 1460 AM. It uses a directional antenna at all times, from its transmitter facility on Burlington-Columbus Road in Burlington.

Programming is heard on two FM translators; W225DJ at 92.9 MHz in Burlington, and W281CL at 104.1 in Cherry Hill. Programming is also heard on WPEN-HD3 in Burlington.

The station received its construction permit on June 7, 1984, and was given the call sign WRLB. On February 1, 1992, while still not on the air, the station changed its call sign to WIFI. This call sign had been used for some 20 years on a Top 40 radio station in Philadelphia, 92.5 WIFI-FM (now WXTU). WIFI officially signed on the air in November 1992. It ran a brokered programming format under the "MyWifi 1460" brand.

The 1460 frequency had previously been used in Burlington County by WJJZ, a daytime-only station licensed to Mount Holly, New Jersey. Its transmitter site was on Burlington Island. Two incarnations of WJJZ operated, both losing their licenses over corporate problems, between 1963 and 1983.

In 2008, Florence Broadcasting Partners led by John Forsythe took over operations of the station under a time brokerage agreement with Real Life Broadcasting. On November 1, 2013, the operating contract between Real Life Broadcasting and Florence Broadcasting expired and was not renewed. The station was then operated by Omega Broadcasting, LLC, which programmed urban gospel music.

In 2013, WIFI became one of the first American broadcast stations to use 100% solar power for its daytime transmissions. A few years later, WIFI switched to Christian radio programming as "Life Radio".

In November 2020, Ritmo Broadcasting began managing WIFI, with a contemporary hit radio format, branded "WIFI 92.9".

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