Alabama 261, approx.
1/2 mile north of Walker County line.
Power (ERP):
2.2 kW.
Antenna:
Omnidirectional
Antenna HAAT:
548 feet.
Other Information:
HD-multi
92.5-1 - WXJC-FM
92.5-2 - WDJC-FM
Stereo
How's the Signal?
Signal is poor over
most all of Jefferson and Shelby counties. Can be received in Jasper and
Dora best. Signal practically non-existant east of Irondale and Trussville.
Studios:
-
Owner:
Crawford Broadcasting
Noted Personalities:
Hank Erwin, Matt Murphy,
talk hosts. Wayne Wallace, host of Caravan music program.
How's it sound?
The sound quality of this station is very
good.
History:
This station started out as a rimshot into
the Birmingham market from the tiny Walker County town of Dora. Originally
a top 40/dance hybrid station, its calls were WZJT (the JT for J.T. Roberts
Broadcasting, who owned it; J.T. Roberts also has owned a club in east
Birmingham) with the slogan "Party Radio, Z-92.5". The weak signal
kept it from making inroads in Birmingham, and the sound was super-compressed.
Apparently they decided to compensate for lack of signal strength by pumping
the sound way over the top. It was very fatiging to listen to! About a
year later this station stopped the music and went religious. It became
one of the few Catholic religious outlets in the United States when it
picked up EWTN's radio service. Sometime after going religious, the calls
were changed to WQOP (Queen Of Peace radio). In May 2004 the Birmingham
News reported the station was sold to Crawford Broadcasting. Shortly
after aquisition, the station began simulcasting WXJC-AM. Crawford has
changed the calls to WXJC-FM (as well as WDJC-AM to WXJC-AM).
The community of license was originally Dora
but changed to Cordova as part of a number of changes around central Alabama
in spring of 2005. Changed calls to WPHC in February 2006. The station
switched to a country format as "Positive Hit Country" in the middle of
May 2006, but it didn't last long - the station flipped to a Christian
country format in October of the same year.
In July 2007 Crawford flipped it's FM talker
"The Source" to an oldies format, displacing the talk hosts. Some
of them have wound up here, and with their addition some format changes
have occurred. The gospel and preaching from WXJC-AM and the talk
from WYDE-FM have merged to a simulcast on WXJC-FM and AM.
