WJYM

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WJYM is an American radio station licensed to broadcast from Bowling Green, Ohio. Its studios and transmitter are located in Lime City near Perrysburg, and the station serves the Toledo metropolitan area.

Presently, WJYM is a Christian radio station, and is owned by the ministry of noted evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. It operates 24 hours a day with 1 kW during daylight hours, and reduced power of 250 W and 59 W during post-sunset, nighttime, and pre-sunrise hours.

Previously, it was a clear-channel 5 kW station known as WHRW, after its owner and founder, Howard Ward. As a daytime-only station in the 1960s as WWBG with a middle of the road format then in the 1970s as WMGS with a country music format before the late 70s when it became WJYM, "Son Life Radio." The call letters are evocative of the name "Jim", after owner Jimmy Swaggart. For many years the station operated locally with a full staff of approximately 12. During this time WJYM carried Bowling Green State University football and basketball games in conjunction with WFOB and WBVI, as the nighttime signal of WJYM could be heard as far away as Columbus and Dayton, Ohio, and Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Indiana.

In the late 1990s all operations were transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and WJYM currently simulcasts the signal of WJFM, located at the headquarters of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WJYM

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