History
The station first signed on the air in 1945 as WSSV. [5] It was founded as a local station for the Petersburg area and operated as a Top 40 outlet for much of its early life. [6] In 1970, the station was purchased by Eure Communications, which also operated its FM sister station, WSSV-FM. [7]
In 1986, the station was sold to Paco-John Broadcasting and changed its call letters to WPLZ, beginning a long association with urban and gospel formats. [8] Three years later, in 1989, it became WGCV and shifted to a gospel format. [9] After a brief period as WROU in the mid-2000s under the ownership of Radio One (now Urban One), [10] the station adopted the WTPS call letters to match its "The People's Station" branding.
The station has broadcast the programming of WXGI in Richmond since Urban One's purchase of that station on May 1, 2017, in order to give WXGI—at that time a sports station—a metro Richmond FM signal. [11] The stations eventually flipped to a classic hip-hop format known as "The Box". [12]
On December 11, 2025, the station's call sign was changed to WDCJ as a side effect of a format flip involving the former WDCJ in the Washington, D.C. market. [13]
