I was going through the news items on Hisair.net and found the announcement that WHJT (Star 93.5) was celebrating 20 years on the air. So for all the people at Mississippi College Congratualations.
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congratulations To Star 93.5 for being on the air for 20 years
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It was called Lite93.5 if I'm correct. For a long time it was the only FM station you could tune in to hear AC. The FM in Jackson was Urban (KXI 94.7) (WJM1) Religon (WJFR 96.3) Album Rock (WZZQ) Beautiful Music (WLIN) and a few out of town stations. In the 80's WTWZ 1120 and for a while WKKE 1180 and WRJH 97.7 were Contempory Christian. When 93.5 switched it pretty much killed WTWZ and he eventually switched to Christian Country and finally bluegrass. For the first few years as a christian station WHJT was called Alive 93.5. It was also one of the early stations to start streaming on the internet.
For a few years, Alive 93.5 as it was called then when Mississippi College bought WSLI it used to simucast Alive 93.5's signal with WSLI in some portions of the broadcasting day. This was the last days of Farmer Jim on WSLI.
I do remember when WRJH was for a while an automated CCM station. I also remember when WYJS did some Contemporary Christian music up against WHJT. Now the only competition they have now is K-Love. Unfortunately, Star93.5 can't be heard in Forest so I miss the days that WSLI was simucasting with WHJT and those days when we drove to Jackson to get something and the beginning days of WYJS (now WOAD).
WRJH was automated southern Gospel back in the 70's. It was contemerary Christian in the early or mid 80's I believe. Country WRKN AM was live during the day and when it signed off at night, the FM would go live with the same jock that was heard on AM. I think the same guy that was running the AM station would just check on the FM every once in a while. Which usually wasn't very often because they had a bad habit of going to dead air on the FM station. sometime in the 1980's WRJH switched back to southern Gospel after Jeff Steele moved over from WJXN. They also began having less automation. The automation always sounded muddy. It sounded like they werent' cleaning the tape heads, or they were out of alignment. They also had some tapes that had lots of hiss and fluttered like they had been previously eaten by the machine.
I believe WTWZ signed on around 1982. I used to listen to it when a student and Hinds Junior College. It was the first regular Contemeporary Christian station in the area. It was orginally on 1150 AM with 500 watts.
WKKE went to CCM around 1986. Known as (Key 1180) It went talk shortly after WSLI dropped Talk radio. (Star Country?)
I believe WTWZ signed on around 1982. I used to listen to it when a student and Hinds Junior College. It was the first regular Contemeporary Christian station in the area. It was orginally on 1150 AM with 500 watts.
WKKE went to CCM around 1986. Known as (Key 1180) It went talk shortly after WSLI dropped Talk radio. (Star Country?)
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