WDCJ (92.7 FM), known on air as "Majic 102.3 & 92.7," is an urban oldies-leaning

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formatted

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licensed to

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, and serving the southeastern

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. The station's programming is a relay of

WMMJ WMMJ (102.3 FM), known on air as "Majic 102.3 & 92.7," is an urban oldies-leaning urban adult contemporary radio station owned by Urban One in the Washington, D.C. market. It is co-owned with WKYS, WOL, WPRS-FM and WYCB and has studios ...

(102.3 FM) in

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History

92.7 FM signed on August 1, 1971 as WESM, a local station serving

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with

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. Original owners George Gautney and Carl Jones sold the station to Mel Gollub's MJS Communications in 1973. As WMJS, the station continued as country at first, but later flipped to

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 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

in 1985 and again to

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in 1987. In 2000, Mega Communications bought the station. Under the new callsign WBZS-FM, it joined a simulcast with WBPS (94.3 FM,

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) to create a metro-wide network for its "La Nueva Mega" Spanish-language

format. In 2005, the network flipped to Spanish oldies branded as "Mega Clasica". Immediately after the sale, efforts began to build a low-powered station to return local service to Calvert County. WMJS-LP, taking the now-unused callsign, signed on in 2003.

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, headed by

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owner

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, purchased the two stations along with WKDL (730 AM,

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) in January 2006. Snyder's goal was a

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competitor to

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(980 AM). The three-station network was known as "Triple X ESPN Radio", with 92.7 FM gaining the WWXT callsign to match. Snyder bought WTEM itself in 2008, after which the network was simply known as "ESPN 980". Snyder began selling his radio properties in 2017. WWXT was sold to

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on April 20; the station was flipped to a simulcast of WMMJ's urban adult contemporary format on May 1, with the new WDCJ callsign taking effect on the 19th.

References

External links

Official Website of ''Majic 102.3''
* {{Urban One Urban One stations Radio stations established in 1971 DCJ Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States 1971 establishments in Washington, D.C. 1971 establishments in Maryland Prince Frederick, Maryland