Broadcast area | Paducah, Kentucky Murray, Kentucky |
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Frequency | 90.5 MHz |
Branding | Missionary Radio |
Programming | |
Format | Southern Gospel |
Ownership | |
Owner | Pennyrile Christian Community, Inc. |
WVHM, WTRT | |
History | |
First air date | June 30, 1989[1] |
Former call signs | WVHM (1989–2023) |
Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 26646 |
Class | C3 |
ERP | 16,500 watts |
HAAT | 102 meters |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°48′31″N 88°13′26″W / 36.80861°N 88.22389°W |
Repeater(s) | W206BB (89.1 FM, Madisonville, Kentucky) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | missionary.radio |
WAAJ (90.5 FM) is a Southern Gospel–formatted radio station licensed to Benton, Kentucky, United States, and serving the greater Jackson Purchase area of western Kentucky, including Paducah. The station is currently owned by Pennyrile Christian Community, Inc. as part of a triopoly with Christian radio station WTRT (88.1 FM) and contemporary Christian station WVHM (89.7 FM).[3] All three stations share studios on College Street in downtown Hardin, Kentucky, while its transmitter facilities are off Dowdy Cemetery Road south of Benton.
In order to broaden its broadcast and listening area, WAAJ operates an FM translator on 89.1 FM (W206BB) in Madisonville, Kentucky. That station's transmitter is located on the campus of the North Campus of the Madisonville Community College.