 The station's studios are located on Beach Avenue in Stafford Township and its broadcast tower is located in Waretown, New Jersey at ().WJRZ began broadcasting on July 4, 1976 from Manahawkin, New Jersey with a Top 40 format that also played a lot of recurrents, and the first song played was "More More More by Andera true Connection.The original city of license was Ship Bottom, later changed to Manahawkin, and used the ID "Manahawkin-Toms River".