WJWJ-FM (89.9 FM) is a non-commercial

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radio station licensed to

Beaufort, South Carolina Beaufort ( , a different pronunciation from that used by the city with the same name in North Carolina) is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South ...

. Its transmitter is located with co-owned WJWJ-TV near Green Pond, South Carolina in

Colleton County Colleton County is in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,604. Its county seat is Walterboro. The county is named after Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet, one of the eight Lords ...

and is part of the statewide "

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News network" from

South Carolina Public Radio South Carolina Public Radio (SCPR) is the National Public Radio member network serving the state of South Carolina. It is operated by the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, an agency of the South Carolina state government. It is ...

. It covers most of the southeastern part of the state, including

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. It also provides rimshot coverage of

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. The station began operation in 1980. Along with the SCERN simulcast based in Columbia, WJWJ occasionally broke off to air local shows from SCETV's studios in Beaufort. In 2001, WJWJ was the first SCERN station to switch to an all-news format as both

WSVH WSVH FM 91.1 is a 96,000-watt public radio station broadcasting from Savannah, Georgia, and transmitting from the WVAN-TV 9 (GPB TV) tower to the west in Pembroke, Georgia, north of Fort Stewart. It provides the radio service of Georgia Publi ...

in Savannah and

WSCI WSCI (89.3 FM) is a noncommercial Classical/News/Talk in Charleston, South Carolina featuring both Classical music as well as news and other programs from NPR National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American private ...

in Charleston provided the entire WJWJ listening area with

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. However, with the change in formats, all local programming ended, and WJWJ's entire schedule is now fed from Columbia. It is the only NPR news/talk station in the area.

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South Carolina Public Radio
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