WJKS (FM)
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| City of license | Keeseville, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Champlain Valley |
| Branding | 104.3 Kiss FM |
| Slogan | The Champlain Valley's Classic Hip-Hop Station |
| Frequency | 104.3 MHz |
| First air date | March 15, 1992[1] |
| Format | Classic hip hop |
| ERP | 25,000 watts |
| HAAT | 88 meters |
| Class | C3 |
| Facility ID | 20606 |
| Callsign meaning | W J KisS |
| Former callsigns | WVFA (1991-1991) WGLV (1991–2000) WWOD (2000–2012) WMXR (2012–2013) WMVY (2013–2014) WECM (2014-2015) WJKS (2015-present)[2] |
| Owner | Jeffrey D. Shapiro (Great Eastern Radio, LLC) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | KissVermont.com |
WJKS (104.3 FM) is a Classic Hip Hop formatted radio station in the Champlain Valley of northern New England in the United States. WJKS is licensed to Keeseville, New York
In 2008, the station was granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) construction permit to change its city of license from Hartford, Vermont to Keeseville, New York, increase ERP to 25,000 watts and decrease HAAT to 88 meters using a directional antenna. With this facility, WJKS serves the Champlain Valley.
History
The station first took its callsign WVFA on May 3, 1991 and changed to WGLV on June 14, 1991. It officially launched on March 15, 1992 with a Religious format in Hartford, Vermont. On October 11, 2000, the station launched its WWOD calls and changed the format to Oldies as "Oldies 104.3". WWOD, along with 28 other Nassau Broadcasting stations in northern New England, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by Carlisle Capital Corporation, a company controlled by Bill Binnie (owner of WBIN-TV in Derry), on May 22, 2012. WWOD and 11 of the other stations, were then acquire by Vertical Capital Partners, controlled by Jeff Shapiro. As this would put Shapiro over the Federal Communications Commission's ownership limits in the Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction market, WWOD and WEXP were acquired by Electromagnetic Company, a company controlled by William and Gail Goddard. [3][4][5] This transaction was consummated on November 30, 2012, with the WWOD/WEXP portion of the purchase valued at $600,000.
On November 30, 2012, WWOD went silent and swapped call signs with WMXR Woodstock, Vt.[6] On July 9, 2013, the call letters were again changed, to WMVY.[7] WMVY returned to the air on October 30, 2013, still operating from the Hartford facility.[8] The call letters became WECM on June 9, 2014.[7]
On November 10, 2014, WECM began transmitting from its new Keeseville facilities stunting with Christmas music, branded as "Ho Ho 104". After the holiday season, the station continued to run the stunt.
Electromagnetic Company sold WECM to Jeffrey D. Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio, LLC in a transaction that was consummated on March 23, 2015. Electromagnetic received a 6.4% equity interest in Great Eastern Radio (valued at $250,000) in exchange.
On June 15, 2015 at Noon, after seven months of stunting, the station finally flipped to classic hip hop as "Kiss 104.3", with the new callsign WJKS.[9]
On-air staff
Oldies 104.3 used to broadcast oldies music with the following "Oldies Jox":
- Shep Sutton
- Art Steinberg
- Leon Strong
- Brett Adams
- Matt Ryan
- Tracy Thomas
- Traci Fulton
- Ken Webbley
Former staff
- Warren Bailey
- Ted Bilodeau
- Heath Cole
- Chris Garrett
- Dru Johnson
- Pauline Robbins
- Parker Springfield
- Kenn Hayes
- Ronnie Lodge
- Rick Watts
- RJ Crowley
- Gary James
- Doug Welldon
Featured programs
Oldies 104.3 used to broadcast oldies and the following programs:
- The Get Up & Go Morning Show
- Middays With Art Steinberg
- Top 4 at 4 w/Leon Strong
- The Ride Home Reunion w/ Leon Strong
- Brett Adams with Night Time Oldies
References
- ↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2010/D4-2010-BC-YB-7.pdf
- ↑ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=20606&Callsign=WJKS
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- ↑ http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79804/northern-new-england-change-rundown/
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- ↑ Classic Hip Hop Kisses Vermont
External links
- History and airchecks on WWOD in Lynchburg Virginia in the 1970s
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WJKS
- Radio-Locator information on WJKS
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WJKS
- Nassau Broadcasting's plan to "park" the call letters WPLY
- FCC construction permit
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