WJLS-FM
City | Beckley, West Virginia |
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Broadcast area |
Southeastern West Virginia Southwestern Virginia |
Branding | "99-5 WJLS" |
Slogan | "The Big Dawg" |
Frequency | 99.5 MHz |
First air date | February 1947 |
Format | Country |
ERP | 34,000 Watts |
HAAT | 320 Meters |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 52336 |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°35′23.0″N 81°6′51.0″W / 37.589722°N 81.114167°W |
Callsign meaning |
W Joe L. Smith father of owner Joe L. Smith Jr. |
Affiliations | West Virginia MetroNews |
Owner | West Virginia Radio Company of Raleigh, LLC |
Sister stations | WJLS |
Webcast | WJLS-FM Webstream |
Website | WJLS Online |
WJLS-FM is a Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Beckley, West Virginia, serving Southeastern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia. WJLS-FM was formerly owned and operated by First Media Radio, LLC, which in December 2012 announced its intent to sell the station to West Virginia Radio Company of Raleigh, LLC. The sale of WJLS-FM and sister station WJLS was consummated on February 15, 2013 at a price of $4.5 million. It is the second FM radio station to go on the air in West Virginia, and the oldest existing FM station in the state. It utilized the call letters WBKW from 1957 to 1990.
External links
- 99-5 WJLS Online
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WJLS
- Radio-Locator information on WJLS
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WJLS
- History of WJLS
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