WJMP

WJMP
City of license	Kent, Ohio
Broadcast area	Akron metro area
Branding	1520 WJMP
Frequency	1520 kHz
First air date	March 1964
Format	News/talk
Power	1,000 watts (daytime only)
Class	D
Facility ID	41075
Transmitter coordinates	41°9′37″N 81°18′16″W / 41.16028°N 81.30444°W / 41.16028; -81.30444
Former callsigns	WKNT (1964–89)
Owner	Media-Com, Inc. (Media-Com, Inc.)
Sister stations	W16DO-D, WAOH-CD, WNIR

WJMP AM 1520 is a daytime only radio station licensed to Kent, Ohio and serving the Akron, Ohio radio market. WJMP operates with a maximum power output of 1,000 watts, using a six-tower, daytime-only directional antenna pattern.

WJMP is the Akron affiliate of Mancow in the Morning, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Savage Nation, and The Dennis Miller Show. AM 1520 also carries CBS Radio newscasts hourly. It is commonly owned with FM station WNIR and low-power television stations WAOH-CD channel 29 Akron and W16DO-D channel 16 Cleveland, which simulcast together as the Cleveland market's Retro Television Network affiliate.

History

The station was signed in March 1964 as WKNT, owned by the publisher of the Kent Ravenna Record-Courier newspaper.^[1] It was purchased by Media-Com, Inc. in July 1971.

WJMP has had a variety of formats over the years, having a history of changing formats to react to changes made by other stations in both the Akron and Cleveland markets.

Prior to affiliating with Fox Sports Radio, WJMP was an Air America Radio affiliate. On June 2006, when Akron's WTOU/WARF dropped Fox Sports Radio for talk radio, WJMP took the sports format abandoned by the Akron station. WARF then added two Air America programs once run on WJMP to its existing talk lineup.

Earlier, in 2001, when Cleveland station WRMR AM 850 announced that it was dropping pop standards music for the sports format of WKNR, WJMP changed to a standards format.

WJMP also has been a talk radio sister station to WNIR, carrying various syndicated talk programs in contrast with WNIR's mainly local schedule of hosts.

It once relayed the TV audio of co-owned WAOH-LP/W35AX, and stunted during the Major League Baseball players' strike of 1994 with a continuous loop of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during its daytime broadcast hours. This stunt gained the small station nationwide attention, and an entry in the Guinness Book of Sports Records.^[2]

Before March 15, 1989 the station used the callsign WKNT.^[3] Until sister WKNT-FM became WNIR, and became a full-time talk radio station in the mid-1980s, WKNT AM 1520 simulcast with the FM station.

On June 8, 2009, WJMP dropped its all-sports format and became a news/talk station featuring such syndicated hosts as Mancow, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, and Lou Dobbs (WJMP replaced Dobbs with Dennis Miller following Dobbs leaving radio in 2012).

References

↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1967, p. B-125.
↑ http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/aprjun95/jun2695/26briefs.html
↑ Call Sign History for WJMP, from FCC's AM station database. Retrieved 2009-06-08.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WJMP

Radio-Locator Information on WJMP

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WJMP

Radio stations in the Akron, Ohio market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 91.3 94.9 97.5 98.1 100.1

By AM frequency	640 1150 1350 1520 1590

By callsign	WAKR WAPS WARF WCUE WHLO WJMP WKDD WKSU-FM WNIR WONE-FM WQMX WSTB WZIP

Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also List of radio stations in Ohio

News/talk radio stations in the state of Ohio

Stations	WABQ – Painesville WAKR – Akron WASN – Youngstown WBEX – Chillicothe WBTC – Uhrichsville WCLT – Newark WCVX – Cincinnati WEOL – Elyria/Lorain WERE – Cleveland Heights/Cleveland WHBC – Canton WHIO – Dayton WHIO-FM – Piqua WHK – Cleveland WHLO – Akron WINT – Willoughby WJMP – Kent/Akron WLQR – Toledo WKBN – Youngstown WKRC – Cincinnati WLQR – Toledo WLW – Cincinnati WMAN – Mansfield WMAN-FM – Fredericktown WMOH – Hamilton/Cincinnati WMRN – Marion WNIR – Kent/Akron WONW – Defiance WSPD – Toledo WTAM – Cleveland WTVN – Columbus

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Ohio

Daytime-Only radio stations in Ohio

Stations	WAIS - Buchtel WASN - Youngstown WBCO - Bucyrus WBZI - Xenia WCCD - Parma WCNW - Fairfield WDAO - Dayton WEDI - Eaton WGFT - Campbell WILB - Canton WINW - Canton WJMP - Kent WJTB - North Ridgeville WKFI - Wilmington WKTX - Cortland WLGN - Logan WLKR - Norwalk WPTW - Piqua WRFD - Columbus-Worthington WTNS - Coshocton WWGK - Cleveland WXIC - Waverly WYCL - Niles

Defunct	WAST - Ashtabula WATJ - Chardon

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