WJMF-LD, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a low-power

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Jackson, Mississippi Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, along with Raymond. The city had a population of 153,701 at t ...

, United States. The station is owned by Rainey Radio. WJMF-LD's transmitter is located on Kerr Drive (off

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) on Jackson's south side. Programming is currently unknown.

History

WJMF-LP was previously an affiliate of

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, rebroadcasting a satellite feed of

KUOK KUOK (channel 36) is a television station licensed to Woodward, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. Owned by the Oklahoma City–based Tyler Media Group, the station maintains a transmitter near Stat ...

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, a former sister station under

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; consequently, WJMF-LP was Univision's sole affiliate in Mississippi, as well as the state's only Spanish-language TV station in general. WJMF even broadcast KUOK station identifications and Oklahoma ads. It was originally announced that WJMF would become a

LAT TV LAT TV was a Spanish-language television network emphasizing family-oriented and educational programming. It was owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas and launched in May 2006, initially on five low-power television stations in ...

affiliate. However, Equity placed LAT TV on co-owned WJXF-LP instead. (That station would later switch to Equity's Retro Jams network, before closing down in 2010.) WJMF was sold at auction to Rainey Radio on April 16, 2009; this separated it from KUOK, which was sold to

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. The sale closed on July 10, 2009. In early 2011, WJMF-LP was relocated to channel 6, when it was relaunched as an

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- formatted radio station, "EZ 87.7".Radio-Info: "Jackson's New 87.7 FM", March 9, 2011.
/ref> In June 2015, a Saturday evening request show was added to the station. The name of its host is Gearshift Gary. On July 13, 2021, WJMF-LP signed off shortly before midnight. Its format (classic hits) had already moved to WZQK. The station was licensed for digital operation on January 11, 2022; its call sign was changed to WJMF-LD.

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