WJMF-LD (channel 6) is a

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, United States. The station is owned by Rainey Radio. WJMF-LD's transmitter is located on Kerr Drive (off

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) on Jackson's south side. Programming is currently unknown.

History

WJMF-LP was previously an affiliate of

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, rebroadcasting a satellite feed of KUOK in

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, a former sister station under

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; consequently, WJMF-LP was Univision's sole affiliate in Mississippi, as well as the state's only

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TV station in general. WJMF even broadcast KUOK station identifications and Oklahoma ads. It was originally announced that WJMF would become a

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affiliate. However, Equity placed LAT TV on co-owned WJXF-LP instead. (That station would later switch to Equity's

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network, before closing down in 2010.) WJMF was sold at auction to Rainey Radio on April 16, 2009; this separated it from KUOK, which was sold to Tyler Media. The sale closed on July 10, 2009. In early 2011, WJMF-LP was relocated to channel 6, when it was relaunched as an

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/ classic hits- formatted radio station, "EZ 87.7".Radio-Info: "Jackson's New 87.7 FM", March 9, 2011.
/ref> In June 2015, a Saturday evening request show was added to the station. The name of its host is Gearshift Gary. On July 13, 2021, WJMF-LP signed off shortly before midnight. Its format (classic hits) had already moved to WZQK. The station was licensed for digital operation on January 11, 2022; its call sign was changed to WJMF-LD.

References

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