WCRJ

WCRJ
City Jacksonville, Florida
Broadcast area Jacksonville area
Branding The JOY FM
Frequency 88.1 MHz
First air date 1984 (as WNCM)
Format Contemporary Christian
ERP 8,000 watts
HAAT 151 meters
Class C3
Facility ID 48390
Transmitter coordinates 30°16′34.00″N 81°33′53″W / 30.2761111°N 81.56472°W / 30.2761111; -81.56472
Former callsigns WNCM (1984-1993)
Owner Delmarva Educational Association
(Delmarva Educational Association)
Webcast Listen Live
Website florida.thejoyfm.com

WCRJ (88.1 FM) is a Christian contemporary music formatted radio station serving the Jacksonville area owned by the Delmarva Educational Association, relaying programming from the JOY FM network.

History

Prior to 1993, WCRJ was WNCM-FM.[1] The station switched from country music to talk radio in 1995.[2]

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, now WXXJ), 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 Educational Media Foundation, which switched the station to its satellite-based K-LOVE network on May 1, 2011.

On August 1, 2018, WCRJ switched from EMF's "Air 1" Christian CHR format to Radio Training Network's "The JOY FM" contemporary Christian format, due to sale.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Call Sign History". Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ Stark, Phyllis (April 29, 1995). "Vox Jox". Billboard. 107 (17): 92.
  3. ↑ Joy FM Comes to Jacksonville Radioinsight - August 1, 2018


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