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WJLX (1240 AM) is a radio station in Jasper, Alabama. It airs a full-service oldies format. The station is owned by Jonathan Timmons with Blue Door Broadcasting holding the broadcast license. The studios and offices are on Alabama State Route 195 in Jasper.
WJLX is authorized to broadcast at 1,000 watts. But the station has special temporary authority from the FCC to broadcast at 100 watts. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W268BM at 101.5 MHz.
The station began broadcasting on March 1, 1957. The original call sign was WARF. It was owned by Hudson C. Millar Jr. with the license held by the Walker County Broadcasting Company and it was a 250-watt station. Millar also owned WKPL in Cullman. The station was sold to Radio South, a consortium of four men, in 1965 for $102,500. By 1993, Houston Pearce was the full owner of Radio South; that year, WARF and WFFN, then located in Jasper, were sold to a new firm led by Houston Pearce, Voncile Pearce, and Vachel Posey Jr., the latter two senior managers of Radio South. At that time, WARF had a country music format with news and talk features.
In September 1993, Radio South, Inc., reached an agreement to sell country music-formatted WARF to New Century Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on September 27, 1993.
The station was assigned the call letters WTID by the FCC on January 9, 2003. In May 2004, New Century Radio, Inc. (Vachel L. Posey Jr., president) reached an agreement to sell WTID to Joy Christian Communications Inc. (Ed L. Smith, president) for a reported sale price of $200,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 28, 2004, and the transaction was consummated on July 9, 2004. At the time of the sale, the station broadcast an oldies music format. The new owners had the FCC change this station's call letters to WLYJ on September 8, 2004.
The station was assigned the call letters WZTQ by the FCC on September 17, 2007, when it swapped with then-sister station WLYJ. Just before the station was put up for sale, on January 29, 2008, the owners had the station's call sign changed again, this time to WJLX.
In February 2008, Joy Christian Communications Inc. reached an agreement to sell WJLX to Walker County Broadcasting through their subsidiary, Wal Win LLC, headed by shareholder Brett Elmore. Wal Win LLC agreed to pay in full the mortgage held against real property (with the pay-off being $300,000) in exchange for the station. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 27, 2008, and the transaction was consummated on April 11, 2008. Elmore, who simultaneously started noncommercial WJBE-FM, initially retained the Southern gospel format instituted by Joy Christian.
The station was assigned the WJLX call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since January 29, 2008, when the call sign was swapped with then-sister station WLYJ.
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WJLX
WJLX (1240 AM) is a radio station in Jasper, Alabama. It airs a full-service oldies format. The station is owned by Jonathan Timmons with Blue Door Broadcasting holding the broadcast license. The studios and offices are on Alabama State Route 195 in Jasper.
WJLX is authorized to broadcast at 1,000 watts. But the station has special temporary authority from the FCC to broadcast at 100 watts. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W268BM at 101.5 MHz.
The station began broadcasting on March 1, 1957. The original call sign was WARF. It was owned by Hudson C. Millar Jr. with the license held by the Walker County Broadcasting Company and it was a 250-watt station. Millar also owned WKPL in Cullman. The station was sold to Radio South, a consortium of four men, in 1965 for $102,500. By 1993, Houston Pearce was the full owner of Radio South; that year, WARF and WFFN, then located in Jasper, were sold to a new firm led by Houston Pearce, Voncile Pearce, and Vachel Posey Jr., the latter two senior managers of Radio South. At that time, WARF had a country music format with news and talk features.
In September 1993, Radio South, Inc., reached an agreement to sell country music-formatted WARF to New Century Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on September 27, 1993.
The station was assigned the call letters WTID by the FCC on January 9, 2003. In May 2004, New Century Radio, Inc. (Vachel L. Posey Jr., president) reached an agreement to sell WTID to Joy Christian Communications Inc. (Ed L. Smith, president) for a reported sale price of $200,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 28, 2004, and the transaction was consummated on July 9, 2004. At the time of the sale, the station broadcast an oldies music format. The new owners had the FCC change this station's call letters to WLYJ on September 8, 2004.
The station was assigned the call letters WZTQ by the FCC on September 17, 2007, when it swapped with then-sister station WLYJ. Just before the station was put up for sale, on January 29, 2008, the owners had the station's call sign changed again, this time to WJLX.
In February 2008, Joy Christian Communications Inc. reached an agreement to sell WJLX to Walker County Broadcasting through their subsidiary, Wal Win LLC, headed by shareholder Brett Elmore. Wal Win LLC agreed to pay in full the mortgage held against real property (with the pay-off being $300,000) in exchange for the station. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 27, 2008, and the transaction was consummated on April 11, 2008. Elmore, who simultaneously started noncommercial WJBE-FM, initially retained the Southern gospel format instituted by Joy Christian.
The station was assigned the WJLX call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since January 29, 2008, when the call sign was swapped with then-sister station WLYJ.