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WRJZ (620 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee. It airs a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by Tennessee Media Associates, headed by Thomas Moffit, Jr. The studios are on East Magnolia Avenue in Knoxville.

By day, WRJZ transmits a 5,000-watt non-directional. At night, to avoid interference to other stations on 620 AM, WRJZ uses a directional antenna with a five-tower array. Programming is also heard on two FM translators: 99.5 MHz in Sevierville and 102.5 MHz in Knoxville.

In morning drive time, Bob Bell hosts a show focusing on news, weather and information. The rest of the day, WRJZ airs national programs including Family Talk with Dr. James Dobson, Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll, In Touch with Charles Stanley, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, Hope in the Night with June Hunt and Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

WRJZ also airs Carson-Newman College and Grace Christian Academy football games.

WRJZ is one of Knoxville's oldest radio stations. It signed on the air on February 12, 1927; 98 years ago (1927-02-12). The original call sign was WNBJ. It was owned by Lonsdale Baptist Church and it broadcast on 1450 kilocycles. It moved to 1310 AM in 1930 under new owner Stewart Broadcasting Corporation. A year later, Stuart changed the call letters to WROL. It moved to its current frequency in 1941.

The station's ownership group was part of a consortium that signed on East Tennessee's first television station, WROL-TV, in 1953 on channel 6. Two years later, the call letters were changed to WATE AM-TV.

The two stations went their separate ways in 1971, with the television station retaining the WATE-TV calls while the radio station changed its calls to WETE. The station aired an adult contemporary format for most of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1976, WETE-AM changed the call letters to WRJZ-AM, and began airing a top 40 format.

CP and Walker, Jeff Jarnigan, Adele (see below), Mark Thompson, Rick Kirk, John Boy, and J.J. Scott were some of the station's best-known personalities throughout the 1970s.

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