option agreements from the commission. By 1977, the station was airing a country music format. At license renewal hearings, Nicholas Grand, one of the three principals in West Jersey, said that West Jersey paid the money as a bribe to local officials in its efforts to obtain a cable television franchise. His partner William McDaniel admitted the payment had been made, but as an "investment", not a bribe. In 1978, administrative law judge Thomas B. Fitzpatrick recommended denial of the WJJZ license renewal application and found Mount Holly Radio unfit to be a licensee. The decision was later sent by the FCC back to the judge, who confirmed his prior ruling in February 1982. By this time, the station broadcast from Camden's city hall building. The FCC Review Board affirmed the decision in June 1982, calling West Jersey Broadcasting "utterly and irredeemably unfit" and rejecting a proposal to save the facility by selling to a partner who was not involved in the 1967 payoff, which it declared "brazen" and "border[ing] on the incredible". Burlington County radio after WJJZ Burlington County would wait nearly a decade for a new station—and get two in the same month. In 1984, the FCC granted Real Life Broadcasting a construction permit for a new 1460 station in Mount Holly; the group, controlled by the Fountain of Life Church in Florence Township, had the city of license moved there and finally received zoning approval for the transmitter facility on the order of a judge in 1988. The station, originally known as WRLB, began broadcasting as WIFI in November 1992. Farina and his Mount Holly Radio Company would file for 640 kHz, a clear channel frequency that rule changes allowed to be installed on a high-power outlet in New Jersey, in 1980. Construction began on the facility more than a decade later, in 1991, and WWJZ began broadcasting in November 1992, on Thanksgiving Day. WWJZ itself moved to the Florence site in 1994. Notable staff Diane Allen (née Betzendahl), first female news director in New Jersey; later news anchor in Philadelphia and Chicago and New Jersey state senator References Companies based in Burlington County, New Jersey Mount Holly, New Jersey Defunct radio stations in the United States JJZ (AM) Radio stations established in 1963 Radio stations disestablished in 1965 Radio stations established in 1967 Radio stations disestablished in 1983 JJZ (AM) JJZ