WJDX (AM)

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WJDX
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Broadcast area Jackson, Mississippi
Frequency 620 kHz
BrandingAM 620 FM 104.7 WJDX
Programming
Format News/talk/sports
Affiliations Fox Sports Radio
ABC News Radio
NBC News Radio
Premiere Networks
WJTV
Ownership
Owner
WJDX-FM, WSFZ, WSTZ-FM, WMSI-FM, WHLH
History
First air date
 1929
Former call signs
WJDX (1929–1990)
WJDS (1990–1998) [1]
Technical information
Facility ID 59817
Class B
Power 5,000 watts day
1,000 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 32°22′56″N90°11′26″W / 32.38222°N 90.19056°W / 32.38222; -90.19056
Translator(s) 104.7 W284DT (Jackson)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website wjdx.iheart.com

WJDX (620 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to serve Jackson, Mississippi. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014) and licensed to iHM Licenses, LLC. It airs a news/talk/sports radio format. [2]

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Mississippi Sports This Morning, which is now airing on WJQS, is the station's flagship local program. It aired during WJDX's morning drive slot without interruption from 1998 to 2020. It is currently hosted by Doug Colson and Jay White. It is the longest-running daily sports talk program in Mississippi radio history.

WJDX also serves as the Jackson home for the New Orleans Saints and NASCAR. [3]

The station was assigned the current WJDX call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on October 9, 1998. [1] According to the FCC, the call letters were WJDS from July 6, 1990 to October 8, 1998. Prior to July 6, 1990, the call letters were WJDX since its inception.

On October 3, 2011, WJDX changed their format to news/talk.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, WJDX was a successful Top 40 music station. Prior to that, the station had been a conservative MOR music outlet.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ↑ "Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  3. ↑ "Saints Radio Network Stations". New Orleans Saints. Retrieved February 25, 2009.

Skeeter (Eugenia Phelan) describes listening to Patsy Cline's « Walking After Midnight » followed by « Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray » on WJDX radio in the Cadillac after her first interview with Aibileen in Kathryn Stockett's novel ‘The Help’.

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