WJFN-FM is a

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-formatted

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licensed to

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, serving Goochland and

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. WJFN-FM is owned by John Fredericks, through licensee

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Radio Network, LLC. Fredericks hosts the weekday morning show at the station, with other daily shows including syndicated talkers

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History

As WZEZ, the station broadcast a

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format as "EZ 100.5" until February 1, 2014, when

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began programming it under a

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with a simulcast of

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station

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, under the "Sports FM 100.5" branding.

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acquired WZEZ from the Delmarva Educational Association for $125,000 in 2016 and made it Richmond's K-Love station; on February 1, 2017, the call sign was changed to WLRB. EMF sold WLRB to Truth Broadcasting Corporation (whose principals, Stuart and Nancy Epperson, are also associated with Delmarva Educational Association) for $150,000 in 2018; while the sale was taking place, the station changed its call sign to WVNZ-FM on July 24 and began carrying

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. The call sign was changed to WJFN on September 27, 2018; that October, John Fredericks began leasing the station to program a conservative talk format. Fredericks bought the station outright for $155,000 effective December 20, 2019. Through sister company Disruptor Radio, John Fredericks agreed to buy similarly-formatted WNTW in

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from Delmarva Educational Association in 2020; WNTW already carried Fredericks' program, an arrangement that predated his acquisition of WJFN. WJFN added the "-FM" suffix to its call sign on April 6, 2020, allowing Disruptor to request the unsuffixed WJFN callsign for WNTW.

References

External links

WJFN Online
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