WRAT (95.9 FM, "The Rat") is a rock music radio station licensed to Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Its studios and transmitter are located in the Borough of Lake Como, New Jersey. The station is owned by Greater Media. WRAT took over the frequency 95.9 from WADB, a station named for the founder, Adamant Brown and his wife Dorothy. Brown, after determining that there was no one on frequency within the required 70 miles, and co-channel 35 miles. petitioned the FCC for the rights to the frequency.
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- WRAT (95.9 FM, "The Rat") is a rock music radio station licensed to Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Its studios and transmitter are located in the Borough of Lake Como, New Jersey. The station is owned by Greater Media. WRAT took over the frequency 95.9 from WADB, a station named for the founder, Adamant Brown and his wife Dorothy. Brown, after determining that there was no one on frequency within the required 70 miles, and co-channel 35 miles. petitioned the FCC for the rights to the frequency. A tower was subsequently erected at the studio site in South Belmar (now known as Lake Como). Taking to the air in October 1968, it was one of the first automated broadcast stations with large carousels located with eight track tapes for the majority of advertising. Large reels of taped music with interspersed commercials made the station run with minimal human intervention. A computer controlled the operation. The station's "easy listening" format quickly proved popular in its coverage area of southern Monmouth and northern Ocean counties but over time, the nationwide audience for that program format began to decrease. Once Brown decided to sell the station, its days as a "beautiful music" outlet were numbered. WRAT first began broadcasting an "active rock" format on Labor Day 1996. The first song that day was AC/DC's "For Those About To Rock. " The station quickly gained a loyal following, filling a void in the Monmouth/Ocean (N.J. ) radio market, by providing a local station with a rock format and approach which listeners could previously only hear via stations broadcasting from New York City and Philadelphia. WRAT gained some notoriety in the late 1990s/early 2000s with a roadside billboard advertising campaign to promote its playing of nine songs in a row. The billboard photograph was captioned "WRAT 9 in a row", and featured 5 large-breasted women in bikinis standing next to each other, cropped so that only their chests were visible, and also cropped on the side so that only half of the last women was visible: thus, nine breasts in a row. In September 2006, WRAT celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Much of the station's success over this time has been contributed to the longevity of the air staff. Almost all of the air talent that began on the station in 1996 is still on air in some capacity, a rarity in today's radio landscape. Similarly rare is the presence of a staff member on the air around the clock while many stations switch to an automated format for the overnight hours. Throughout the station's history, its biggest problem has been a very weak signal. Though the station added new transmitters in the summer of 2005, the station still suffers significant interference in southern and central Ocean County due to co-channel interference from WBEN-FM at 95.7 and WTTH at 96.1.
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- WRAT (95.9 FM, "The Rat") is a rock music radio station licensed to Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Its studios and transmitter are located in the Borough of Lake Como, New Jersey. The station is owned by Greater Media. WRAT took over the frequency 95.9 from WADB, a station named for the founder, Adamant Brown and his wife Dorothy. Brown, after determining that there was no one on frequency within the required 70 miles, and co-channel 35 miles. petitioned the FCC for the rights to the frequency.
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