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, and serves the

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. The station is owned by John Fredericks, with the license held by Disruptor Radio, LLC. Fredericks hosts a syndicated weekday morning talk show and also owns three stations in

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. Other syndicated shows on WJFP include "The War Room with

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." By day, WJFP is powered at 1,000

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is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A

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. So to avoid interference, at night WJFP greatly reduces power to 6 watts. It uses a

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is off Dutton Mill Road in

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. Programming is also heard on two

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s: 95.3 W237EH in

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and 103.3 W277DL in Chester.

History

On , the station first

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from its founding until early 2022 was WVCH, standing for the "Voice of Chester". It was originally a

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, powered at 250 watts and required to

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at night. It later boosted its power to 1,000 watts and got nighttime authorization at low power. For most of its history, WVCH carried a

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format branded as simply "WVCH, The Christian Station." One of the programs carried on WVCH in the 1950s was

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's popular ''Morning Cheer'' weekday broadcast. On November 15, 2021, RadioInsight.com reported that WVCH and translator W277DL would be sold to John Fredricks of the MAGA Radio Network through Disruptor Media, LLC, for $500,000. On February 16, 2022, the station flipped to a conservative talk format as "Liberty Radio".Liberty Radio Debuts in Philadelphia
/ref> The sale was consummated on March 1, 2022, with the station's call sign changing to WJFP the following day.

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