WJCW

WJCW is a commercial AM radio station, licensed to Johnson City and serving the Tri-Cities, Tennessee radio market . It is owned by Cumulus Broadcasting and airs a talk radio format.WJCW's transmitter, offices and studios are on Free Hill Road in Gray, Tennessee. The complex also houses the studios for Cumulus' other Tri-Cities radio stations. WJCW broadcasts with a 5,000 watt non-directional signal in the daytime. But at night, to protect other stations on AM 910, the station reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna.HistoryOn December 13, 1938, the station first signed on as WJHL, owned by John H. Lancaster, Sr. It was the second radio station in the Tri-Cities and the first in Johnson City. It began broadcasting at only 250 watts. By the 1940s, it got a power boost to its current 5,000 watts by day, 1,000 watts at night, and became an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network, later ABC. By 1950, WJHL joined CBS, an affiliation that lasted five decades. Under Lancaster's son Hanes and grandson Hanes Jr., WJHL added 100.7 WJHL-FM in 1948 (now 101.5 WQUT) and in 1953 added WJHL-TV Channel 11. Because the AM station carried CBS programming, WJHL-TV became a CBS-TV affiliate.