WJMI


WJMI is a radio station licensed to Jackson, Mississippi, United States, with a Mainstream Urban musical format. The station is owned by Alpha Media through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Along with five other sister stations, its studios are located in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, while the transmitter tower is south of Raymond.

Station history

The station began in 1967 as an FM sister to station WRBC and was owned by the Rebel Broadcasting Company. Most of the disc jockeys who were on WRBC took shifts on the FM station, and hosting a shift on the FM station was used to test new talent for WRBC.
Among the more famous voices to be heard on WJMI were Bob Pittman, Walt Grayson, and Mary Lewis.
The station then broadcast from 7a.m. until midnight. It was affiliated with the ABC-FM news network and broadcast the news each hour at fifteen minutes past the hour with local news following.
The station began as an easy listening station with some of the talent later recalling that every version of "Spanish Eyes" was played on the station. By the 1970s, though, the station had evolved into an adult contemporary station which played album-cuts from such singer-songwriters as Carole King, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, and Helen Reddy, bubblegum music.
On April 1, 1973, WJMI was sold to new owners, who then flipped into a CHR/UC a.k.a. CHUrban format as "Jackson's JMI 100 FM" and then years later the station becomes a fully fledged Mainstream Urban station under their now current name as "99 Jams".