WRJN

WRJN

City	Racine, Wisconsin
Broadcast area	Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee
Branding	"Your Radio Friend, AM 1400 WRJN"
Frequency	1400 AM kHz
First air date	December 1926 (1926-12)
Format	Classic Hits, Oldies, MOR
Power	1,000 watts
Class	C
Facility ID	41437
Callsign meaning	Racine Journal News (founder of station)
Affiliations	Westwood One
Owner	David Magnum (Magnum Communications, Inc.)
Sister stations	WVTY
Webcast	WRJN Webcast
Website	wrjn.com

WRJN (1400 AM) is a MOR radio station located in Racine, Wisconsin, and serving the areas of Racine, Kenosha and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The station is owned by David Magnum, through licensee Magnum Communications, Inc., along with local sister station WVTY. Its studios and transmitter are co-located in Racine.

The station has a strong Racine-Kenosha based emphasis, featuring a heavy slate of local news. local sports and local information and talk, combined with its music format.

Talk Radio Era

From the late 1980s until 2014, WRJN carried a Talk Radio format with a combination of local and syndicated talk. The station was the Milwaukee-area affiliate for syndicated shows from Lionel, Bill O'Reilly and Mike Gallagher as well as Alan Colmes, Ed Schultz, Coast To Coast AM and Leslie Marshall in its later year, effectively serving as a "last resort" station for shows not picked up in the Milwaukee market by WTMJ or WISN.

WRJN was affiliated with ABC and aired Paul Harvey's daily commentaries prior to his death.

WRJN celebrated 85 years of continuous service to Racine on December 6, 2011. It is among the nation's most long running stations and the 3rd oldest station with the same call letters in Wisconsin.

Sale To Magnum Broadcasting And Format Change

On June 25, 2014, Bliss Communications announced that it would sell WRJN and WVTY (then WEZY), along with sister stations WBKV and WBWI-FM in West Bend, to David Magnum's Magnum Communications, Inc. Bliss had owned WRJN and WEZY since 1997.^[1] The sale, at a price of $2.25 million, was consummated on October 31, 2014.

On December 1, 2014, WRJN dropped all syndicated programming from the lineup and replaced it with a mixture of local talk, sports, and Classic Hits, Oldies and Adult Contemporary Music with the new positioner "Your Radio Friend", which is similar format to their new sister station WPDR in Portage.^[2]

References

↑ "Bliss Communications to sell West Bend, Racine radio stations". The Janesville Gazette. June 25, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
↑ "Upgrades, New formats for local radio stations". The Racine Journal Times. December 14, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2015.

External links

WRJN Website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WRJN

Radio-Locator Information on WRJN

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WRJN

Radio stations in the Milwaukee–Racine, Wisconsin market

by AM frequency	540 620 860 920 940 1050 1130 1250 1290 1340 1400 1460 1470 1500 1510 1540 1560 1610 1640

by FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 90.7 91.1 91.7 92.1 92.5 93.3 94.5 95.1 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 97.9 98.3 99.1 100.1 100.3 100.7 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.7 104.5 104.7 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.9 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.525

Digital radio	620 1130 1250 88.9-1 88.9-2 90.7-1 90.7-2 93.3-1 94.5-1 94.5-2 95.7-1 95.7-2 96.5-1 97.3-1 97.3-2 98.3-1 98.3-2 99.1-1 99.1-2 100.7-1 100.7-2 102.1-1 102.9-1 103.7-1 103.7-2 106.1-1 106.1-2 106.9-1

by callsign	KEC60 KZZ76 WWG91 WAUK WBKV WCCX WDDW WFAW WGTD WGLB WHAD WHQG WIIL WISN WJMR-FM WJTI & W250BN WJYI WKKV-FM WKLH WKTI WLDB WLIP WLKG WLUM-FM WLVE WMBZ WMIL-FM WMSE WMWK WMYX-FM WNOV WNRG-FM WOKY WSJP WSJP-FM WPJX WPTJ444 & WPZK577 (WISDOT Traffic) WRIT-FM WRJN WRNW WRRD WSJP-FM/W273AT WSSP WTKM WTKM-FM WTMJ WUWM WVCY-FM WVTY WWDV WXSS WYMS WZTI

Defunct	WAWA WFMR

Nearby radio markets Fox Cities Madison Sheboygan–Manitowoc Janesville–Beloit–Jefferson County Chicago See also List of radio stations in Wisconsin

Coordinates: 42°42′38″N 87°49′49″W / 42.71056°N 87.83028°W / 42.71056; -87.83028

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