WJMP
| City | Kent, Ohio |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Akron metro area |
| Branding | 1520 WJMP |
| Frequency | 1520 kHz |
| First air date | March 1964 |
| Last air date | July 31, 2016 |
| Format | Defunct, was News/talk |
| Power | 1,000 watts (daytime only) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 41075 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°9′37″N 81°18′16″W / 41.16028°N 81.30444°W |
| Former callsigns | WKNT (1964–89) |
| Owner | Media-Com, Inc. (Media-Com, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | W16DO-D, WAOH-CD, WNIR |
WJMP AM 1520 was a daytime only radio station licensed to Kent, Ohio and serving the Akron, Ohio radio market. WJMP operated with a maximum power output of 1,000 watts, using a six-tower, daytime-only directional antenna pattern.
WJMP was the Akron affiliate of Mancow in the Morning, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Savage Nation, and The Dennis Miller Show. AM 1520 also carried CBS Radio newscasts hourly. It was commonly owned with FM station WNIR and low-power television stations WAOH-CD channel 29 Akron and W16DO-D channel 16 Cleveland, which simulcast together as the Cleveland market's Retro Television Network affiliate.
The station was signed in March 1964 as WKNT, owned by the publisher of the Kent Ravenna Record-Courier newspaper. It was purchased by Media-Com, Inc. in July 1971.
WJMP had a variety of formats over the years, having a history of changing formats to react to changes made by other stations in both the Akron and Cleveland markets.
Prior to affiliating with Fox Sports Radio, WJMP was an Air America Radio affiliate. In June 2006, when Akron's WTOU/WARF dropped Fox Sports Radio for talk radio, WJMP took the sports format abandoned by the Akron station. WARF then added two Air America programs once run on WJMP to its existing talk lineup.
Earlier, in 2001, when Cleveland station WRMR AM 850 announced that it was dropping pop standards music for the sports format of WKNR, WJMP changed to a standards format.
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