WKJX (96.7 FM, "The Coast") is a

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formatted broadcast

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licensed to

Elizabeth City Elizabeth City is a city in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 18,629. Elizabeth City is the county seat and largest city of Pasquotank County. It is the cultural, economic and educ ...

, North Carolina, serving

and the

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. WKJX is owned and operated by East Carolina Radio of Elizabeth City, Inc. While WKJX is primarily heard in North Carolina, it can be heard in extreme south-eastern sections of Hampton Roads.

History

WKJX signed on in 1984 as an automated

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station. In the early 1990s, it was sold to East Carolina Radio who flipped the station's format to Urban Adult Contemporary. In the late 1990s, the station became a simulcast of sister-station WOBR-FM. In May 2004, WKJX increased its power to 50,000 watts and split from the simulcast of WOBR-FM, picking up a Light

Adult Contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

format as "Mix 96." At 9:06 am on April 2, 2010, after stunting the previous day with

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stand-up routines, WKJX flipped to an urban hip-hop format, and took on the name "96.7 The Block". On June 24, 2019 WKJX changed their format from urban hip hop (which moved to WFMZ 104.9 FM Hertford) to hot adult contemporary, branded as "96.7 The Coast".WKJX Flips to Hot AC 96.7 The Coast
Radioinsight - June 24, 2019

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References

External links

96.7 The Coast Online
* KJX Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States {{NorthCarolina-radio-station-stub