WDJC
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| WDJC | |
| City of license | Birmingham, Alabama |
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| Broadcast area | Birmingham and north-central Alabama |
| Branding | 93.7 WDJC |
| Slogan | All Music, all Jesus, all the time |
| First air date | 1940’s as WSGN-FM |
| Frequency | 93.7 MHz |
| Format | Contemporary Christian |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| Class | C0 |
| Callsign meaning | Witness Daily for Jesus Christ, or Donald J. Crawford, president of Crawford Broadcasting Company |
| Owner | Crawford Broadcating Company |
| Website | www.93.7wdjc.com |
WDJC is an FM radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. Broadcasting at 93.7 FM, the station was one of the first commercial FM radio stations in the United States to exclusively feature Christian programming. Today the station programs contemporary Christian music. Crawford Broadcating Company owns WDJC. Other stations in the Birmingham market owned by Crawford include WPHC-FM (92.5), WYDE-FM (101.1), WXJC-AM (850), and WLGD-AM (1260).
[edit] History
The initial call letters of WDJC were WSGN-FM. The station signed on in the 1940’s, and was originally owned by the parent company of The Birmingham News, and it was the sister station of one of the more popular AM radio stations in Birmingham. In 1953, the parent company of the Birmingham News purchased WAFM-TV, WAPI-AM and WAFM-FM and was forced to sell WSGN-AM and FM. Because FM radio was in its infancy, and as such neither popular nor profitable, the station was sold later in the 1950’s and became WSFM, playing classical music.
In 1967, WSFM was sold to Crawford Broadcasting Company. With its new call letters, WDJC, the station changed formats and began broadcasting Christian programming. Initially, the programming consisted of Bible studies, church services and other Christian teaching; by the mid-1970s, some contemporary Christian music was added to the programming mix. At about the same time, a nightly program featuring Southern gospel music was added. This programming strategy continued well into the 1990s.
In 1998 WDJC dropped the non-music elements of its programming. WFMH-FM in Cullman was purchased by a group of Birmingham investors with the purpose of launching a station that would play contemporary Christian music 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Initially, the new station, rebranded as WRRS-FM proved to be a challenger to WDJC; in reaction to the challenge, WDJC began to play contemporary Christian music exclusively. Within three years, WRRS changed formats; ironically, Crawford Broadcasting bought the competing station in 2003.
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| FM Radio stations serving the Birmingham / Anniston/ Gadsden area (Arbitron #56) | |
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WBRC 87.7¹ | WLJR 88.5 | WBFR 89.5 | WBHM 90.3 | WJSR 91.1 (covers the northern half of the city) | WVSU 91.1 (covers the southern half of the city) | WGIB 91.9/101.5 | WPHC 92.5 | WDJC 93.7 | WYSF 94.5 | WBHJ 95.7 | WMJJ 96.5 | WNCB 97.3 | WKLD 97.7 (Oneonta: covers northern suburbs) | WHPH 97.7 (Jemison: covers southern suburbs) | WBHK 98.7 | WZRR 99.5 | WJOX 100.5 | WYDE 101.1 | WDXB 102.5 | WQEN 103.7 | WZZK 104.7 | WENN 105.5 | WBPT 106.9 | WUHT 107.7 ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (Fox) |
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WJCK 88.3 | WKNG 89.1 | WGRW 90.7 | WTBJ 91.3 | WPIL 91.7 | WLJS 91.9 | WTDR 92.7 | WHMA 95.5 | WVOK 97.9 | WTRB 98.3 | WRHY 105.9 | |
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WTBB 89.9 | WSGN 91.5 | WGMZ 93.1 | WKXX 102.9 | WQSB 105.1 | |
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