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| City | Salem, West Virginia |
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| Broadcast area | Clarksburg, West Virginia Weston, West Virginia |
| Branding | "Talk Radio 103.3 WAJR" |
| Frequency | 103.3 FM MHz |
| First air date | 1999 [1] |
| Format | News/Talk/Sports [2] |
| Power | 1,800 Watts |
| HAAT | 179.7 meters (590 ft) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 79305 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°15′44.0″N80°28′1.0″W / 39.262222°N 80.466944°W |
| Callsign meaning | WAgnes J. Reeves Greer former owner |
| Former callsigns | WAJR-FM (1998-Present) [3] |
| Affiliations | West Virginia MetroNews |
| Owner | West Virginia Radio Corporation (West Virginia Radio Corporation of Salem) |
| Sister stations | WAJR, WBRB, WBTQ, WDNE, WDNE-FM, WELK, WFBY, WFGM-FM, WKKW, WVAQ, WWLW |
| Webcast | WAJR-FM Webstream |
| Website | WAJR-FM Online |
WAJR-FM is a News/Talk/Sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Salem, West Virginia, serving Clarksburg and Weston in West Virginia. [2] WAJR-FM is owned and operated by West Virginia Radio Corporation. [4]
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live conversations between the host and listeners who "call in" to the show. Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producers in order to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, to attract advertisers. Generally, the shows are organized into segments, each separated by a pause for advertisements; however, in public or non-commercial radio, music is sometimes played in place of commercials to separate the program segments. Variations of talk radio include conservative talk, hot talk, liberal talk and sports talk.
Sports radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and callers. Many sports talk stations also carry play-by-play of local sports teams as part of their regular programming. Hosted by Bill Mazer, the first sports talk radio show in history launched in March 1964 on New York's WNBC (AM).
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum, in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers. Before this, all forms of electronic communication were one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. The term broadcasting evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about. It was later adopted for describing the widespread distribution of information by printed materials or by telegraph. Examples applying it to "one-to-many" radio transmissions of an individual station to multiple listeners appeared as early as 1898.
