WCRJ

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WCRJ
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Broadcast area Jacksonville area
Frequency 88.1 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingThe JOY FM
Programming
Format Christian AC
Ownership
Owner Radio Training Network
History
First air date
1984;40 years ago (1984)
Former call signs
WNCM (1984–1993)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 48390
Class C3
ERP 8,000 watts
HAAT 194 meters (636 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 30°16′34.00″N81°33′53″W / 30.2761111°N 81.56472°W / 30.2761111; -81.56472
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website florida.thejoyfm.com

WCRJ (88.1 FM, "The JOY FM") is a Christian radio station in Jacksonville, Florida. Owned by Radio Training Network, it broadcasts a Christian AC format as part of its The JOY FM network, which broadcasts in multiple different cities throughout the southeast United States.

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History

Prior to 1993, WCRJ was WNCM-FM. [2] The station switched from country music to talk radio in 1995. [3]

88.1 was originally owned by The River Educational Media; until 2011, it was home to The Promise, which was first launched by Concord Media Group on 106.5 FM and was later purchased by Salem Communications. Salem then sold the signal to Cox Radio in 2006 (in which they flipped that station to a simulcast of WOKV-FM, now WHJX), and The River agreed to take the Promise name and format, under a lease management agreement with The Promise Educational Media Inc.

In 2011, The River sold WCRJ to the Educational Media Foundation, which switched the station to its satellite-based K-Love network on May 1, 2011, and then to its Air1 network a few years later.

On August 1, 2018, after being sold to Radio Training Network, WCRJ flipped from the EMF's Air1 network to RTN's state-wide The JOY FM network. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WCRJ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "Call Sign History" . Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Stark, Phyllis (April 29, 1995). "Vox Jox". Billboard . Vol. 107, no. 17. p. 92.
  4. ↑ "Joy-FM Comes To Jacksonville". RadioInsight. Retrieved April 22, 2021.


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