Listeners in the areas of Lansdale and Berlin, New Jersey can now hear an eclectic mix of 20th century nostalgia with recent additions of 105.7 FM and WTHA-FM 88.1 to the Radio Delaware Valley non-commercial public radio station family.

The expansion brings the unique format, which features the old standards of the 20s, 30s, big band, the early days of blues, rock ‘n’ roll, country, soul, polka and more beyond the greater Philadelphia core currently served by WRDV-FM 89.3 in Hatboro; 107.3 in Philadelphia; 97.1 in Bensalem; and 91.7 in Bristol and Levittown.

“We considered it part of the Delaware Valley,” said Charles Loughery, who serves as president of Bux-Mont Educational Radio Association, the nonprofit organization formed to operate the radio station. “We felt it fit in.”

Loughery was a 20-year-old communications student in 1979 when Centennial School District in Bucks County shut down the previously dubbed WCSD 89.3 radio station.

By 1980, Loughery had established a nonprofit organization that allowed for the station’s transfer from school district ownership. For a time, he and other volunteers operated from the basement of Warminster Township’s municipal building, eventually relocating to its current home on York Road in Hatboro in 2000.

“We’re still here today,” Loughery said. 

Learn more at Radio Delaware Valley.

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