WKXJ (103.7 FM) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, and serving the

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, area. The station operates a Top 40 (CHR) music format and is branded as "''103.7 KISS FM''." It is owned by

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Its studios are located on Old Lee Road in Chattanooga, and its

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is located in Red Bank.

Station history

The 103.7 frequency is a newly assigned signal to the area, where it relocated from

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and had been at 103.9

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, where its previous format was Country, now relocated to

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WTRZ. But before WTRZ played

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as "''Hot Country 103.7''," the station, known as "''Z-104''" during the mid-1980s to early 1990s, was a mix of

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, AOR, and CHR. As WBMC in the early 1980s aired an adult contemporary format. The move to Chattanooga had been in the works since 2003. In a statement from the online website ''The Chattanoogan'' on June 18, 2008, Clear Channel VP/Market Manager Mark Bass said, "This is going to be a carefully researched radio station that reaches a huge number of listeners in the Chattanooga area with a unique format that is not in this market anywhere, and something new and unique to the country, we're taking it first step forward." left, 170px, Old KISS FM logo. On June 23, 2008, after playing a ticking clock for a few minutes, the station flipped to a

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format branded as "''Boogie 103.7''". However, a few weeks later, the disco music was replaced with clips of ''The Rick and Bubba Show'' played around the clock. On August 29, 2008, the station flipped to an Adult Contemporary format branded as "''103.7 The River''," featuring " ''Delilah''" at night. However, after a year in the format, Clear Channel decided to bring the KISS-FM brand back to Chattanooga for the first time in 2 years, which was previously used at sister station

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. On November 1, 2017,

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announced that WKXJ, along with all of their sister stations in Chattanooga and

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, would be sold to Entercom (now Audacy, Inc) due to that company's merger with

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. The sale was completed on December 19, 2017. On January 22, 2021, WKXJ replaced ''Elvis Duran & The Morning Show'' with ''

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''.

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