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WHAJ is a Contemporary Hit Radio organized transmission radio broadcast authorized to Bluefield, West Virginia, serving Southern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia. WHAJ is claimed and worked by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC.

WHAJ started as WHIS-FM in 1948, as the most grounded FM station on the planet at that point, with a compelling transmitted intensity of 186,000 watts. It was the sister station of WHIS. The radio broadcast was not fruitful, and broadcasting had for all time stopped by 1950. The administration of WHIS chose to relaunch the station in 1963, this time with an Effective Radiated Power of 5.8 kW. In 1977 force was expanded to 100 kW and the call sign was changed from WHIS-FM to WHAJ-FM to accentuate separate programming from WHIS.

At the point when the radio broadcast was relaunched in 1963, the studios were co-situated with WHIS and WHIS-TV (presently WVVA) in what was then the Bluefield, WV City Hall. In December 1967, the three stations moved to another, best in the class office on East Cumberland Road. The office was known as Broadcast Center. WHIS-TV was offered to Quincy Newspapers in 1980 and stayed in Broadcast Center. WHIS and WHAJ-FM moved to 900 Bluefield Avenue, where they remain today.

From the 1970s until 1987, WHAJ utilized a Shaffer 903 mechanization framework. From 1987 to 1990, WHAJ didn’t utilize radio mechanization. On March 6, 1990, WHAJ turned into the world’s first radio broadcast to utilize Computer Concepts’ Digital Commercial System (DCS) computerization, thought about the primary industrially effective advanced radio robotization frameworks. In 1996, the DCS framework was supplanted by an original framework from Scott Studios. The more established Scott Studios framework was moved up to Scott Studios SS32 in 2003.

WHAJ’s transmitter is situated on East River Mountain, sitting above the city of Bluefield. At the point when the station got back to the air in 1963, the transmitter was co-situated with WVVA-TV (at that point WHIS-TV). The receiving wire was side-mounted on the TV tower. The transmitter was an RCA BTF-5D.

WVVA’s transmitter site is remarkable in light of the fact that the TV transmitter building is in the territory of Virginia, however, the TV pinnacle and receiving wire are in West Virginia. This was an issue in 1977 when the administration of the station wished to start activities at 100 kW. As per FCC rules, FM radio broadcasts in West Virginia might not have an Effective Radiated Power more noteworthy than 50 kW. This issue was settled by building another pinnacle 80 feet toward the east-southeast of the TV tower. This pinnacle was in Virginia, empowering 100 kW activity. A Harris FM-20K transmitter and ERI 12 Bay receiving wire were introduced and 100 kW activity started in 1977.

In the last part of the 1990s, it got attractive to migrate the station’s transmitter to another area for two reasons. Initially, the TV station had been sold, and the FM station was paying rent to the TV station for utilization of the transmitter site. Also, the site was unwanted from a specialized viewpoint. The 1977 pinnacle was too short and the rough territory would make another, tall pinnacle unfeasible. Another pinnacle was accordingly developed roughly 1 mile toward the west-southwest of the TV tower. WHAJ-FM moved to this site in 2000, utilizing a Broadcast Electronics 25K transmitter. Co-claimed WKOY and WHKX additionally moved to this site. (The old WHAJ-FM tower at the WVVA site is currently utilized from WVVA-DT.)

During the 1960s and 1970s, WHAJ had a Beautiful Music design and the station’s live moniker was “Sound system 104”. In August 1981, WHIS-AM’s Contemporary Hit Radio configuration was moved to WHAJ, and J104 was conceived. J104 was a moment achievement both regarding evaluations and promoter acknowledgment. For a large portion of the 1980s, J104 was the most tuned in to radio broadcast in West Virginia. Today, J104 keeps on being one of West Virginia’s best radio broadcasts, winning the West Virginia Broadcasters Association “Station of the Year” Award in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017. WHAJ was additionally named “Amazing Station of the Year” by the WVBA in 2010.

WHAJ started as WHIS-FM in 1948, as the most grounded FM station on the planet at that point, with compelling transmitted intensity of 186,000 watts. It was the sister station of WHIS. The radio broadcast was not fruitful, and broadcasting had for all time stopped by 1950. The administration of WHIS chose to relaunch the station in 1963, this time with an Effective Radiated Power of 5.8 kW. In 1977 force was expanded to 100 kW and the call sign was changed from WHIS-FM to WHAJ-FM to accentuate separate programming from WHIS.