For the Zebulon, North Carolina radio station that held the call sign WAJC at 90.5 FM from 2002 to 2010, see WVRD.

WAJC 88.1 FM is a radio station licensed to Newport, Minnesota, and serving the south central Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. The station broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format and is owned by the Maranatha Assembly of God Church. Its transmitter is located in a park near Coates.

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History

On April 19, 2010, the FCC granted a construction permit to the Religious Information Network for a new noncommercial radio station on 88.1 MHz at Newport, a southeastern suburb of the Twin Cities. RIN intended to program a listener-supported station with a variety of Christian and community programming.[3][4][5][6] The first two letters of its call sign, WAJC, stood for the station manager's father, Walter Martin, and the last two stood for Jesus Christ.[4][5][7] Its slogan was "Radio With a Mission".[4] Among the programming planned for the station were recordings of Walter Martin's radio program, The Bible Answer Man.[5][7]

The station began broadcasting in April 2013 and was branded "The Remnant".[8][9] "The Remnant" was the student-produced Christian rock format from the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, which was simulcast on the HD4 subchannel of that school's KTIS-FM.[10] In 2016, the station was sold to the Maranatha Assembly of God Church for $52,000.[11][12]

Translator

In 2017, Maranatha Assembly of God Church purchased FM translator 91.7 W219DT in North Branch, Minnesota for $50,000, and the translator began rebroadcasting WAJC.[13][14]

Broadcast translator for WAJC
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class FCC info
W219DT 91.7 FM North Branch, Minnesota 139325 50 11 m (36 ft) D LMS

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WAJC". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ WAJC fcc.gov. Accessed November 25, 2013
  3. ^ Kispert-Smith, Amber (2011-08-03). "Broadcasting faith to Woodbury". RiverTowns.net. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  4. ^ a b c Harlow, Tim (2011-08-27). "New Christian radio station to broadcast from Woodbury". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  5. ^ a b c Shaw, Bob. "Washington County - Christian radio station in the works - Founder aims to discuss faith, doctrines", St. Paul Pioneer Press. August 31, 2011. p. B10.
  6. ^ "New Christian Radio Station Plans to Launch in December", Minnesota Christian Examiner. Volume 34, No. 10. October 2012. p. 5. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  7. ^ a b Shaw, Bob. "Child of former Christian radio star plans to launch station in Washington County", St. Paul Pioneer Press. July 21, 2011.
  8. ^ "Broadcasting News-April 2013". www.northpine.com. April 12, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  9. ^ "Format and Slogan Changes", VHF-UHF Digest. September 2013. p. 9. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  10. ^ "Broadcasting News-October 2015". www.northpine.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  11. ^ Venta, Lance (2015-10-30). "Station Sales Week Of 10/30". RadioInsight. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  12. ^ "Deal Digest for the week of January 28, 2016", Inside Radio. January 28, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  13. ^ "Station Sales Week Of 7/21", Radio Insight. July 21, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  14. ^ "Deal Digest - July 20, 2017", Inside Radio. July 20, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2020.

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