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WJCW
WJCW (910 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Johnson City, Tennessee, and serving the Tri-Cities radio market (Johnson City-Bristol-Kingsport). It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a news/talk format.
WJCW's transmitter, offices and studios are on Free Hill Road in Gray, Tennessee. The complex also houses the studios for Cumulus' other Tri-Cities radio stations. WJCW broadcasts with a 5,000-watt non-directional signal in the daytime. At night, to protect other stations on AM 910, the station reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna. The station is East Tennessee's AM primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System, with WJXB-FM in Knoxville performing the PEP function on FM in east Tennessee.
The station first signed on the air on December 13, 1938. The original call sign was WJHL, jointly owned by Hanes Lancaster, Sr. and J. W. Birdwell, both from Chattanooga. It was the second radio station in the Tri-Cities and the first in Johnson City. It began broadcasting at only 250 watts. During 1940, Birdwell was no longer a partner in the new station.
The station's original frequency was 1200 kHz. In December 1940, WJHL moved to 880 kHz with 1,000 watts, utilizing a directional three-tower pattern at night. With the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement coming into force on March 29, 1941, the station was required to move to 910 kHz due to the adoption of the new international radio treaty.
In 1942, WJHL got a power boost to its current 5,000 watts by day, 1,000 watts at night. It became an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network, later ABC. By 1956, WJHL joined CBS, an affiliation that lasted five decades. Under Hanes Lancaster, Sr and son Hanes Jr., WJHL added 100.7 WJHL-FM in 1948 (now 101.5 WQUT) and in 1953 added WJHL-TV Channel 11. Because the AM station carried CBS programming, WJHL-TV became a CBS-TV affiliate.
In 1960, the radio stations were sold to Tri-Cities Broadcasting, owned by James C. Wilson (son of the founder of the area's first radio station, WOPI in Bristol) Channel 11 kept the WJHL-TV callsign, while AM 910 was renamed WJCW after Wilson's initials and continued to program an middle of the road, full service format. In the early 1970s, the station switched to a country music format.
Notable announcers included:
Jim Wilson/Tri-Cities Broadcasting sold WJCW and WQUT to Bloomington Broadcasting in 1981.
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WJCW
WJCW (910 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Johnson City, Tennessee, and serving the Tri-Cities radio market (Johnson City-Bristol-Kingsport). It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a news/talk format.
WJCW's transmitter, offices and studios are on Free Hill Road in Gray, Tennessee. The complex also houses the studios for Cumulus' other Tri-Cities radio stations. WJCW broadcasts with a 5,000-watt non-directional signal in the daytime. At night, to protect other stations on AM 910, the station reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna. The station is East Tennessee's AM primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System, with WJXB-FM in Knoxville performing the PEP function on FM in east Tennessee.
The station first signed on the air on December 13, 1938. The original call sign was WJHL, jointly owned by Hanes Lancaster, Sr. and J. W. Birdwell, both from Chattanooga. It was the second radio station in the Tri-Cities and the first in Johnson City. It began broadcasting at only 250 watts. During 1940, Birdwell was no longer a partner in the new station.
The station's original frequency was 1200 kHz. In December 1940, WJHL moved to 880 kHz with 1,000 watts, utilizing a directional three-tower pattern at night. With the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement coming into force on March 29, 1941, the station was required to move to 910 kHz due to the adoption of the new international radio treaty.
In 1942, WJHL got a power boost to its current 5,000 watts by day, 1,000 watts at night. It became an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network, later ABC. By 1956, WJHL joined CBS, an affiliation that lasted five decades. Under Hanes Lancaster, Sr and son Hanes Jr., WJHL added 100.7 WJHL-FM in 1948 (now 101.5 WQUT) and in 1953 added WJHL-TV Channel 11. Because the AM station carried CBS programming, WJHL-TV became a CBS-TV affiliate.
In 1960, the radio stations were sold to Tri-Cities Broadcasting, owned by James C. Wilson (son of the founder of the area's first radio station, WOPI in Bristol) Channel 11 kept the WJHL-TV callsign, while AM 910 was renamed WJCW after Wilson's initials and continued to program an middle of the road, full service format. In the early 1970s, the station switched to a country music format.
Notable announcers included:
Jim Wilson/Tri-Cities Broadcasting sold WJCW and WQUT to Bloomington Broadcasting in 1981.