WJBC-FM
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WJBC-FM (93.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Pontiac, Illinois, in the Bloomington-Normal radio market. It is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a country radio format, calling itself "93.7 Nash Icon". The transmitter is on County Road 3200 North in Weston, Illinois.[1]
History
The station signed on the air in July 1969 as WPOK-FM. It had 3,000 watts and broadcast on 103.1 MHz. WPOK-FM simulcast its sister station WPOK (1090 AM), now off the air.[2]
WPOK-FM changed its call sign to WJEZ in November 1984.[3] The AM station went off the air in 1998.[4]
WJEZ was a modern country station by 1989,[5] and received authorization to move from 103.1 MHz to 93.7 MHz in the early 1990s.[6]
In 2003, the WJEZ callsign was moved to sister station 98.9 at Dwight, Illinois; that station still remains WJEZ as of 2010[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. Replacing WJEZ on 93.7 was WTRX-FM, a classic rock station with the nickname "Thunder 93.7 WTRX". It later became "WTRX, The Oldies Channel", from the name of the Westwood One's music network format it used; the music network was purchased by Dial Global and WTRX-FM began using Dial Global's Kool Gold format, except during mornings.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 2010, the station changed its call sign to WJBC-FM and began simulcasting the talk radio format on sister station WJBC (1230 AM) in Bloomington. On August 15, 2014, at 3Script error: No such module "String".pm, WJBC-FM split from the simulcast and became one of the first stations to flip to the new "Nash Icon" country network as 93.7 Nash Icon.
WJBC-FM went silent in March 2025. It was one of 11 Cumulus stations to close the weekend of March 14, as part of a larger shutdown of underperforming Cumulus stations.[7]
References
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- ↑ Radio-Locator.com/WJBC-FM
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- ↑ FCC callsign history. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- ↑ 1080 WPOK (AM) at Pontiac was FCC facility ID 37822; see Application Search Results. Its license was surrendered on March 24, 1998, and deleted on June 18, 1998, per FCC file number BR-19960724YV.
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- ↑ Federal Communications Commission file BPH-19920421IF. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
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External links
- Template:FCC Licensing and Management System facility
- Template:Show by date&band=fm&callLetter=WJBC WJBC in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
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