WKJX
City | Elizabeth City, North Carolina |
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Broadcast area |
Elizabeth City Outer Banks |
Branding | "96.7 The Block" |
Slogan | Non-stop Hip-hop |
Frequency | 96.7 MHz |
First air date | 1984 |
Format | Mainstream urban |
ERP | 50,000 watts |
HAAT | 124 meters |
Class | C2 |
Facility ID | 49156 |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°12′10.0″N 75°52′23.0″W / 36.202778°N 75.873056°W |
Owner | East Carolina Radio of Elizabeth City, Inc. |
Sister stations | WCNC, WERX-FM, WOBR-FM, WOBX, WOBX-FM, WRSF, WZBO |
Website | 967theblock.com |
WKJX is a mainstream urban formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, serving Elizabeth City and the Outer Banks. WKJX is owned and operated by East Carolina Radio of Elizabeth City, Inc.
While WKJX is primarily heard in North Carolina, it can be heard in extreme south-eastern sections of Hampton Roads
History
WKJX signed on in 1984 as an automated country station. In the early 1990s, it was sold to East Carolina Radio who flipped the station's format to Urban Adult Contemporary. In the late 1990s, the station became a simulcast of sister-station WOBR-FM.
In May 2004, WKJX increased its power to 50,000 watts and split from the simulcast of WOBR-FM, picking up a Light Adult Contemporary format as "Mix 96."
At 9:06am on April 2, 2010, after stunting the previous day with Bill Cosby stand-up routines, WKJX flipped to an urban hip-hop format, and took on the name 96.7 The Block.".[1]
References
- ↑ "Soft AC station is blown up for Hip-Hop". VARTV.com. April 2, 2010.
External links
- 96.7 The Block Online
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WKJX
- Radio-Locator information on WKJX
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WKJX