KJXJ

Infobox Radio station
name = KJXJ


city = Cameron, Texas
area =
slogan = "103.9jack FM What We Want"
airdate = 1982-06-01 (as KCRM)
frequency = 103.9 MHz
format = Adult Hits
erp = 25,000 watts
haat = 212.0 meters
class = C2
facility_id = 72718
coordinates = coord|30|44|14.00|N| 96|50|14.00|W|region:US_type:city
former_callsigns = KCRM (1982-1993)
KHLR (1993-2001)
KXCS (2001-2007)
owner = Brazos Valley Communications, Ltd.
website = [http://1039jackfm.com 1039jackfm.com]
affiliations = ABC Radio

KJXJ (103.9 FM) is a radio station with studios in Bryan, Texas which transmits out of Cameron, Texas and is owned by Brazos Valley Communications, Ltd. [cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KJXJ |title=KJXJ Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ] The station serves the College Station area with Adult Hits radio programming under the Jack FM brand as well as programing from ABC Radio.

Personalities

As Jack FM is a syndicated format, no live personalities broadcast although on-air "bits" are broadcast throughout the entire day between No-Limit Johnny, Chairman of the Jack FM Social Committee, and Lucy Diamond, Jack FM's full service intern.

John Sellars, formally of News Talk 1620 WTAW, became program director of the station in April 2008.Fact|date=June 2008

History

The station first existed as KCRM from 1982-06-01 to 1993-12-27, before changing its call sign to KHLR. On 2001-04-09, the station call sign became KXCS-FM, which it kept until receiving its existing call sign of KJXJ on 2007-03-29. [cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=72718&Callsign=KJXJ |title=KJXJ Call Sign History |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ]

KXCS-FM

KXCS used the slogans "1039 XCS, Everything That Rocks" and "Aggieland's New Rock Alternative, 103.9 The X", and once carried the Lex and Terry and Loveline programs.Fact|date=June 2008

Transition to KJXJ

On the evening of 2007 March 19, DJs announced that the station was changing from the Rock/Alternative Rock format. The last DJs that night were Kira (on-air moniker: "The Queen of Rock") to 10 PM, and Dex Peck from 10 PM-midnight. The last songs under the old format: "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls; "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" by Cobra Starship; "Joker and the Thief" by Wolfmother; "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus; and "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen, dedicated by Dex to a list of staffers.Fact|date=June 2008

The transition day of March 20th was a confusing and motley collection of music not conforming to a single genre. Across the course of the day, listeners heard a bizarre mixture of Rap, Classic Rock, Show Tunes, TV Theme Songs, Reggae, Easy Listening, and others.Fact|date=June 2008 Shortly after midnight, the audio feed abruptly cut off in the middle of a long string of Irish Drinking Songs, and suddenly new programming came over the air, identifying the broadcast as a Jack FM station.Fact|date=June 2008 On 2007 April 3, this station began identifying itself as KJXJ-FM.

References

External links

*FMQ|KJXJ
*FML|KJXJ
*FMARB|KJXJ