WJXN-FM (100.9

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serving the

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area, broadcasting a

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. The station is owned by

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-based Flinn Broadcasting. Its studios are located in Ridgeland, and the transmitter site is in

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History

In October, 1990, WJXN (then at 92.9) began broadcasting. At that time, its format was top-40, and was branded ''92.9 The Heat''. But ''The Heat'' had been turned off after just a few months. In 1991, WJXN switched to oldies. It was branded ''J92''. But WJXN didn't have oldies for long. In 1992, WJXN made another switch--to country. It was branded ''Star 92''. But WJXN didn't have country for long. Later that year, WJXN started simulcasting

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. WOAD's then-owner Holt Communications had leased WJXN, and had even changed the call sign to WOAD-FM. In December, 1997, WJXN was sold to Flinn Broadcasting. In December, 1999, WJXN swapped frequencies with WDXO, and moved to 100.9. For several years, WJXN-FM had been leased by the then-California-based

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, and was affiliated with K-Love until 2012. Then, on July 26, 2012—when it was leased by

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-based New South Radio (then doing business as The Radio People; now known as Digio Strategies)--WJXN-FM had first switched to adult hits, branded as 100.9 Jack FM. On March 1, 2014 at midnight, WJXN-FM began stunting; on March 3, the station relaunched as

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-formatted 100.9 The Legend. In March 2017, New South Radio had acquired

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from

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. On July 31 of that year, the classic country format moved to WHJT, with New South Radio terminating its lease on WJXN-FM (which had gone briefly silent). On October 9, 2017 after two months of silence, WJXN-FM returned to the air with

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, billing itself as Hot 100.9. During this three-month tenure, the station utilized national programming from

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network. On January 5, 2018 after nearly three months of being ''Hot'', WJXN-FM was rebranded as g 100.9, this time under an LMA deal with Alpha Media, who in turn replaced the Westwood One programming with Alpha's in-house presentation, thus putting it in line with Alpha's ''g''-branded stations. On February 19, 2021 WJXN-FM flipped back to adult hits, again as Jack FM. A portion of its signal overlaps that of WDXO (92.9 Jack FM) Hazlehurst. On January 1, 2023 WJXN-FM dropped the "Jack FM" adult hits format due to Alpha Media's operation of the station coming to an end. WJXN-FM has temporarily switched to EMF's Air 1 worship music format.Jack Departs Jackson
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* JXN-FM Adult hits radio stations in the United States {{Mississippi-radio-station-stub