WLJM

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WLJM "Lima's ESPN Radio 940-AM" is a commercial AM radio broadcasting station at 940 kHz in Lima, Ohio and airs the programming of the national sports network ESPN Radio. Some local sports programming is also aired including "Sports Talk With Koza" hosted by WLIO-TV sports director Vince Koza and "Sportsrap with Wandell and Williams."

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WLJM's call letters originally referred to its former nickname "Lima's 940 JAMZ" for its urban contemporary and R&B format. 940 JAMZ was the local affiliate of ABC Radio's "Hits and Oldies" sattelite R&B format(also known as "The Touch") as well as the Tom Joyner Morning Show which were both discontinued after the station was sold by Forever Broadcasting to Maverick Media in 2005.

WLJM started out originally in the mid 1960s as daytimer WCIT (for its founder,the now defunct Lima Citizen newspaper which folded in 1964.)The station was later purchased by Riggs Broadcasting and adopted a Top 40 format with the branding "Great 94." Its studios were originally located in the Tower National Bank building in downtown Lima before moving to a newer building on Cable Road near the Lima Mall in 1972. Its FM sister WLSR (for "Lima Stereo Radio") was founded in the late 1960s airing beautiful music.

Lima native Jim Baldridge, a news anchorman with Dayton's WHIO-TV got his first on air job at WCIT when he was a high school senior in 1964. Also,Gordy Price, a long time afternoon air personality with crosstown FM competitor WIMT once did afternoons at WCIT in the mid 1970s before the station suddenly switched to automation with the nickname changed to "Rock 94" using a jingle and automation package called "Stereo Rock" produced by Dallas-based TM Productions. In the late 70s,local air personalities returned to WCIT but were automated/pre-recorded "live-assist" announcers...a predecessor to voice tracking.

After numerous format changes in the 1980s which included adult standards,1960s oldies and finally news/talk, WCIT with FM sister WLSR were sold to Pennsylvania-based Forever Broadcasting in the late 1990s changing the call letters to the present-day WLJM which since has become a 24 hour operation transmitting with reduced power between local sunset and sunrise times. It's daytime power is 250 watts. Both WLJM and FM sister WUZZ share its studio facilities with WZOQ-FM and WFGF-FM on Cable Road in Lima. WLJM's transmitter is located adjacent to Interstate 75 off of East Fourth Street.

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Radio stations in the Lima, Ohio market (Arbitron #250)

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