WJTB-FM (95.3 FM) – branded ''GNN Radio'' – is a commercial

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licensed to serve South Congaree,

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. Owned by Augusta Radio Fellowship Institute, Inc., the station services the Columbia metropolitan area and surrounding

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region as an affiliate of GNNradio. The WJTB-FM studios are located in Downtown Columbia while the station transmitter resides in Red Bank. In addition to a standard

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, WJTB-FM broadcasts over three

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channels, and is available online. The WJTB-HD2 digital subchannel, which airs the "Worship and Word Network", and the WJTB-HD3 digital subchannel, which airs the "Millennial-FM Network", also

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over low-power FM

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History

In early 1991, WKWQ, later known as

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, changed frequencies from 95.3 to 93.1, leaving the 95.3 frequency open. The frequency was reallocated to South Congaree by the FCC and after two years, the license was awarded to Glory Communications, a group led by former

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sales manager/media specialist Alex Snipe. The station

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the air on October 29, 1993 as WFMV. It carried an

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format."Contemporary Gospel Station Makes Debut Today", ''The State'', October 29, 1993. The call letters, WFMV, had been previously assigned to an FM radio station in

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, The Georgia Mass Choir, and

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. Informational programming included ''The Morning Inspirations'', ''Wellness Watch'', ''Real Power'' (for voters), ''Kid's Korner'' and ''Watchdog'' (for consumers); on weekends, ''I-95'' covered community issues. WFMV was part of the Glory Radio Network along with WTUA, WLJI, WPDT and WSPX. WFMV was named Southeast Music Award station of the year in 1995. On March 24, 1997, WLJI, in

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, signed on the air as a full-time

of WFMV. The station changed its

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to WFMV-FM on November 13, 2019, which allowed WGCV (620 AM) to take the

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call letters. On February 11, 2020, the sale of WFMV-FM by Glory Communications to Augusta Radio Fellowship Institute, Inc. for $2 million was consummated. The station simultaneously switched its call letters to WJTB-FM and began carrying programming from the Good News Network. The Urban Gospel format heard on WFMV-FM had moved to WFMV earlier in the month.

FM translators

WJTB-FM's HD-2 subchannel feeds FM translator station W286CT (105.1 FM), airing the "Worship & Word Network."

References

External links

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