WXJO AM 1120 was a daytime-only

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, broadcasting on a frequency of 1120

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with a power of 1,000

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s, licensed to serve the city of

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and reaching western portions of the

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, mainly within Douglas County. The station is currently owned by Exponent Broadcasting, Inc., and operated by Ploener Radio Group under an LMA. The station had originally been broadcasting a variety of music (mostly

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), and public-service announcements in what appeared to be an early test period since it had been moved to Douglasville. WXJO's transmitter is co-located with WDCY AM 1520, and the station's signal is diplexed on to WDCY's

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s. In early December 2011, the station began

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ing on WANN-LD 29, using audio-only

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32.27. The station then broadcast music in Spanish. On March 4, 2016 WXJO was granted an

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to increase power to 10,000 watts daytime only and change the antenna from nondirectional to directional by erecting a second tower. In January 2016, the owners of WXJO filed an application to the

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for

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to become silent, which was granted. The reason given was "At this time it is not financially feasible to operate WXJO. An application to assign the license to another party is pending".

History

The station went on the air as WCIK in 1968 on 1560 kHz, originally licensed to serve the city of

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. It moved to 1120 kHz in April 1983. In February 1989, the station changed its

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to WYGO. Soon thereafter it changed call signs to WBNM in 1990. In March 2000, the station changed call signs to the current WXJO, previously used on what is now

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. In 2008, WXJO's

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was moved to Douglasville from Gordon. The station flipped to an SB Nation Radio Sports format on April 5, 2017, and then to its current Urban Gospel format on March 5, 2018.http://www.douglascountysentinel.com/business/douglasville-gets-new-gospel-radio-station/article_4c36a86d-a87e-54f5-bc26-d3c2699c3da7.html

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