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WMGM-TV, virtual channel 40 ( UHF digital channel 36) is a television station licensed to Wildwood, New Jersey. Their offices are located on New Road (Route 9) and its studios behind the station's offices on West Patcong Avenue in Linwood, New Jersey and its transmitter is located along Avalon Boulevard in the Swainton section of Middle Township, east of the Garden State Parkway off Exit 13.
The station is officially considered part of the Philadelphia market, but primarily serves Southeast New Jersey. WMGM-TV was previously an affiliate of NBC, and was the only major network affiliate located directly in the state. As such, the station's coverage area overlapped with the network's owned-and-operated station in Philadelphia, WCAU (channel 10).
WMGM-TV was previously owned by the New York City-based Access.1 Communications. In October 2013, the station was sold to LocusPoint Networks for $6 million, but remained operated by Access.1. The company retains ownership of the station's low-power transmitter, WMGM-LP. The sale proved controversial, due to speculation that LocusPoint only bought the station so that it could sell its license and wireless spectrum to the FCC during its upcoming spectrum incentive auction, and was not interested in its further operation.
On December 31, 2014, WMGM-TV ended its 48-year affiliation with NBC, its management agreement with Access.1, and its news operation, and began to carry programming from the Soul of the South network.