WMJI
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| City | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area |
Greater Cleveland Northeast Ohio |
| Branding | Majic 105.7 |
| Slogan | Cleveland's Greatest Hits Cleveland's Christmas Music Station (Nov.-Dec.) |
| Frequency | 105.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | December 6, 1948 |
| Format |
Classic hits Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.) HD2: Oldies "Real Oldies" |
| ERP | 16,000 watts |
| HAAT | 344 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 73268 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°23′2.00″N 81°41′44.00″W / 41.3838889°N 81.6955556°W |
| Callsign meaning | MaJIc |
| Former callsigns | WTAM-FM (1948–56) KYW-FM (1956–65) WKYC-FM (1965–72) WWWM (1972–82) WMJI (1982–87) WMJI-FM (1987–88) |
| Affiliations |
City Club of Cleveland iHeartRadio Premium Choice Total Traffic and Weather Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WAKS, WGAR-FM, WHLK, WMMS, WTAM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Magic 105.7 |
WMJI (105.7 FM) – branded Majic 105.7 – is a commercial classic hits radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, WMJI is the home of local personality Jimmy Malone. The WMJI studios are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Parma. Besides a standard analog transmission, WMJI broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio.
The station was founded by NBC on December 6, 1948 as WTAM-FM, and it simulcast the programming of sister station WTAM. Both radio stations were also paired with WNBK-TV (later WKYC-TV), which signed on that same year. When NBC traded its radio and television holdings in Cleveland with Westinghouse Broadcasting's stations in Philadelphia on February 13, 1956, it became KYW-FM, taking the callsign of Westinghouse's radio station.
When the NBC-Westinghouse trade was reversed on June 19, 1965, the station reverted to NBC ownership. The call letters were changed to WKYC-FM to match those of the AM station, which kept the popular "KY" slogan and identity Westinghouse brought into Cleveland.
NBC eventually sold off WKYC and WKYC-FM in 1972 to Ohio Communications, owned by Nick Mileti and Jim and Tom Embrescia. The station became WWWM, and broadcast a syndicated beautiful music format. In 1975 the format was changed to album-oriented rock and the station identified itself as M105. The station used the slogan, "The Home of Continuous Music" and was programmed by former WIXY program director Eric Stevens, and competed aggressively with later-sister station WMMS for ratings. In 1980, M-105 began billing itself as "Cleveland's Classic Rock", playing a mix of rock music from the mid-1960s to the present.
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