WJMR-FM
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| City | Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |
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| Broadcast area | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Branding | Jammin' 98.3 |
| Slogan | Today's R&B and Old School |
| Frequency | 98.3 FM MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | July 30, 1966 |
| Format |
Urban Adult Contemporary HD2: WJYI (Christian/brokered) |
| ERP | 4,900 watts |
| HAAT | 111 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 26222 |
| Callsign meaning |
We're Jammin Milwaukee Radio |
| Former callsigns | WZMF (1966-1979) WXJY (1979-1983) WFMR (1983-2000) |
| Owner | Saga Communications (Lakefront Communications, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WHQG, WJYI, WKLH, WNRG-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wjmr.com |
WJMR-FM (98.3 FM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station serving the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, area. They are known on-air as "Jammin' 98.3", and are licensed to Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Under ownership of Saga Communications, its studios (which are shared with the other four sister stations) and transmitter are located in Milwaukee's West Side.
The 98.3 frequency was home for many years to WZMF, which signed on the air in July, 1966. At its inception, the station aired a MOR format. WZMF was located in a small house on Shady Lane in Menomonee Falls.
WZMF's pop music programming eventually became more experimental, and the station evolved into a freeform progressive rock format by October 1968, one of the first stations to do so in the midwest. The station was moderately successful with the format for the next eleven years, pushing rival WTOS into a different format and staying competitive with leading rocker WQFM. When WISN-FM switched from beautiful music to rock as WLPX in January 1978, immediately becoming a ratings success, WZMF began to tighten their format, amid protests from the station's on-air staff, and ratings dropped.
WZMF was sold and went silent on March 23, 1979. The station returned to the air in May 1979 with an easy listening format as WXJY (Joy FM 98). In 1983, it became home to WFMR and its classical music format.
"Downstairs Dan", a former WZMF air talent from its rock days now with 98.3 FM's current sister station WKLH, currently airs a "ZMF Flashback" feature on Friday afternoons.
WJMR started out on 106.9 FM as WMJO, playing a Jammin' Oldies format. Chancellor Broadcasting owned the trademark for the phrase "Jammin' Oldies", so the station was referred to as "Jammin' Hits" and the call letters (which stood for Milwaukee's Jammin' Oldies) were changed to WJMR, and the station was known as "Jammin' 106.9".
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