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WJMI (99.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Jackson, Mississippi, United States, with a mainstream urban musical format. The station is owned by Alpha Media through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Along with five other sister stations, its studios are located in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, while the transmitter tower is south of Raymond.
The classification of urban-formatted radio stations range from the radio formats of rhythmic contemporary hit radio to Urban contemporary gospel. Though urban contemporary was the originator of the format, there have come to be many variations of the format in the last 30 years.
WEDR (99.1 FM, "99 Jamz") is a radio station serving the South Florida region and licensed to Miami, Florida. WEDR has an unusually wide music selection for an urban contemporary-formatted radio station that ranges from typical hip-hop and R&B to afro beat. This is because South Florida is a very diversified region that has various music tastes.
WFQY is an urban gospel radio station, licensed to Brandon, Mississippi and serving the Jackson, Mississippi area. From July 2019 to June 2020, WFQY has been simulcasting WJMF-LP (87-7 The Bridge), one of many Franken FMs the FCC had ordered to cease broadcasting by July 2021. The station began as WRKN in the late 1960s as a country station.
Following this track, another announcement was made stating the switch from Kiss FM to 107.7 Jackson FM. The station began playing music from the Jackson family, with the first song being "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. "Jamz" logo with the "Old School" branding. The Jackson format was a stunt. On Friday, September 10, WUKS resumed under what ...
The station was sold to Tri-Cities Broadcasting Corporation in 1971. [1] Tri-Cities, headed by E. O. Roden, acquired WJMI (99.7 FM) from the Rebel Broadcasting Corporation in 1973. [6] The move came after a yearlong fight at the FCC and saw the FM station change from easy listening to a format that, like WOKJ, targeted the Black community in ...
Two men, Phil Seymour and Fred Mitchell, who had been exposed to pioneering free-form stations like KSAN in San Francisco, approached station management about trying a similar rock format in Jackson.
WJNT is currently owned by Alpha Media through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC and its sister stations are WJMI, WKXI-FM, WOAD, WRKS, and WJQS. All six stations have shared studios which are located in Ridgeland , a suburb of Jackson, while the transmitter tower for WJNT is located in Pearl .