WHAJ
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| City | Bluefield, West Virginia |
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| Broadcast area |
Southern West Virginia Southwestern Virginia |
| Branding | "J-104.5" |
| Slogan | "Today's Best Variety" |
| Frequency | 104.5 MHz |
| First air date | 1963 |
| Format | Hot Adult Contemporary |
| Power | 100,000 Watts (Horizontal) 80,000 Watts (Vertical) |
| HAAT | 472.2 Meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 504 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°15′5.0″N 81°11′20.0″W / 37.251389°N 81.188889°W |
| Callsign meaning | Named for the 1922 WHAJ, a Bluefield station with its call issued from an alphabetical sequence |
| Former callsigns | WHIS-FM |
| Affiliations |
Kidd Kraddick Mountaineer Sports Network West Virginia MetroNews |
| Owner |
Alpha Media (Alpha Media Licensee LLC) |
| Sister stations | WBDY, WHIS, WHKX, WHQX, WKEZ, WKOY, WKQY, WTZE |
| Webcast | WHAJ Webstream |
| Website | WHAJ Online |
WHAJ is a Hot Adult Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Bluefield, West Virginia, serving Southern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia. WHAJ is owned and operated by Alpha Media.
WHAJ began as WHIS-FM in 1948, as the strongest FM station in the world at the time, with an effective radiated power of 186,000 watts. It was the sister station of WHIS-AM. [1] The radio station was not successful, and broadcasting had permanently ceased by 1950. The management of WHIS-AM decided to relaunch the station in 1963, this time with an Effective Radiated Power of 5.8 kW. In 1977 power was increased to 100 kW and the call sign was changed from WHIS-FM to WHAJ-FM to emphasize separate programming from WHIS-AM.
When the radio station was relaunched in 1963, the studios were co-located with WHIS-AM-TV in what was then the Bluefield WV City Hall. In December 1967, WHIS-AM-FM-TV moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility on East Cumberland Road. The facility was known as Broadcast Center. WHIS-TV was sold to Quincy Newspapers in 1980, and remained in Broadcast Center. WHIS-AM and WHAJ-FM moved to 900 Bluefield Avenue, where they remain today.
From the 1970s until 1987, WHAJ used a Shaffer 903 automation system. From 1987 to 1990, WHAJ did not employ radio automation. On March 6, 1990, WHAJ became the world's first radio station to use Computer Concepts' Digital Commercial System (DCS) automation, considered the first commercially successful digital radio automation systems. In 1996, the DCS system was replaced by a first-generation system from Scott Studios. The older Scott Studios system was upgraded to Scott Studios SS32 in 2003.
WHAJ's transmitter is located on East River Mountain, overlooking the city of Bluefield. When the station returned to the air in 1963, the transmitter was co-located with WVVA-TV (then WHIS-TV). The antenna was side-mounted on the TV tower. The transmitter was an RCA BTF-5D.
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