WJOI

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WJOI (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Standards format. Licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, USA, it serves the Hampton Roads area. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications and airs the America's Best Music format distributed by Dial Global.

Signing on in 1949.This station had originally been WNOR-AM thru the 1950s , 1960s , 1970s , 1980s,and most of the 1990s.

During the 1960 & early and mid 1970s, this was a major Top 40 station in the Tidewater market, going head to head with crosstown rival WGH. Many in Tidewater remember the late 60s and early 1970s live Saturday night broadcasts from a fully equipped studio in Ocean View Amusement Park near the Roller Coaster. It's been said the park built the studio for WNOR.

Around 1975, in what was probably a budget cutting move, the station simulcasted overnights with sister station , Rock formtatted WNOR-FM "FM-99" , but a short time later broke off the simulcast and went back to its own programming 24/7.

In the mid 1978 the station flipped to R&B as "The Big O-R". In 1984, the station switched to a classic rock format.But by the late 80s it was simulcasting WNOR-FM 24 hours a day. The simulcast lasted thru the late 80s and most of the 90s .

On April 30th 1999,the simulcast was finally broken off, and the station flipped to an Adult Standards format with new call letters , WJOI.

The WJOI call sign has previously been in use at several FM stations which formerly broadcast easy listening music, including the stations now known as WKQX in Chicago, Illinois, WXYT-FM in Detroit, Michigan, and WBZW in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WJOI
• Radio Locator Information on WJOI

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