WJHT
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| City | Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | Hot 92 |
| Slogan | Today's Hit Music |
| Frequency | 92.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1949 (as WARD-FM) |
| Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
| ERP | 580 watts |
| HAAT | 318 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 64848 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°22′15″N 78°59′02″W / 40.37083°N 78.98389°W |
| Callsign meaning | Johnstown HoT |
| Former callsigns | WARD-FM, WFMM-FM, WFMM, WGLU, WQKK, WRKW, WYOT |
| Owner | Forever Broadcasting, LLC |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.foreverjohnstown.com |
WJHT (92.1 FM, "Hot 92") is a radio station licensed to serve Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Forever Broadcasting, LLC. It airs a Top 40 (CHR) music format. This station was assigned the WJHT call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on July 13, 2006.
There is no relation with WWKL ("Hot 93.5") in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. However, the station is related to WWOT ("Hot 100") in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as they are also owned by Forever Broadcasting.
This station first signed on August 16, 1948, as WARD-FM, sister to WARD at AM 1490, and WARD-TV. As FM radio was still burgeoning and not very popular, it served as a simulcast outlet of its AM sister. This arrangement continued until the stations were sold in 1971 to the Jonel Construction Company (dba Cover Broadcasting). Shortly afterwards, the call letters for the AM station and the TV station were changed to WJNL, and the new owners were granted a construction permit to move WARD-FM to 96.5, which allowed a power increase to 50,000 watts. For this to happen, WARD-FM at 92.1 had to be closed with a dark license until a new owner could be found, as licensees at that time were forbidden to own more than a single AM and a single FM in one market. WJNL-FM 96.5 then signed on the air in 1973, and 92.1 went silent in 1972.
The license for 92.1 was acquired in 1973 by Community Broadcasters, which signed the station back on in September of the following year under the call letters WAAT, and under a religion-based format. The station's facilities moved from Franklin Street to Locust Street in Johnstown. W. Ronald Smith served as the company's president. This incarnation of the station lasted less than two years.
WAAT was sold August 23, 1976 to William C. Bland, owner of the Bland Group, which also owned WNCC in Barnesboro, about a half hour north of Johnstown. The call letters were switched to WFMM and the studios moved to 634 Main Street, and an easy listening format was adopted. Ownership would change again by the end of the decade.
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