WJLS-FM

Last updated
WJLS-FM
WJLS-FM 2009.PNG
Broadcast area
  • Southeastern West Virginia
  • Southwestern Virginia
Frequency 99.5 MHz
Branding99-5 WJLS: The Big Dawg
Programming
Language(s) English
Format Country music
Affiliations West Virginia MetroNews
Ownership
Owner
  • WVRC Media
  • (West Virginia Radio Company of Raleigh, LLC)
WJLS
History
First air date
February 1947
(77 years ago) (1947-02)
Call sign meaning
Taken from WJLS (AM)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 52336
Class B
ERP 34,000  watts
HAAT 320 meters (1,050 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 37°35′23.0″N81°6′51.0″W / 37.589722°N 81.114167°W / 37.589722; -81.114167
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website wjls.com

WJLS-FM (99.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Beckley, West Virginia, serving Southeastern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia with a country music format. The station, which utilized the call letters WBKW from 1957 to 1990, was the second FM radio station to go on the air in West Virginia, and is the oldest to still exist. Since February 2013, it and its sister AM station have been owned by WVRC Media, which purchased them from First Media Radio, LLC.

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History

The AM station was founded in Beckley in 1939 by Joe L. Smith Jr. During World War II it became the smallest CBS affiliate in the country. [2] The FM station launched as WBKW, a 4:00 pm–midnight music station, in late 1957. [3] Both were purchased in the mid-2010s by the West Virginia Radio Corporation. [2] In 2016, WJLS moved from its original building in Beckley to occupy a floor in a building across the street. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WJLS-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. 1 2 Josephine Mendez (March 9, 2019). "Celebrating eight decades on the airwaves". The Register-Herald. Beckley, West Virginia. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  3. ↑ "WBKW (FM) on Air With Music" (PDF). Broadcasting. November 11, 1957. p. 87.
  4. ↑ Cody Neff (January 22, 2016). "WJLS Radio moves across the street to Bickey and Bair Building". The Register-Herald. Retrieved March 2, 2022.


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