WJR

The abbreviation WJR may also refer to World Junior Records in athletics or World Jewish Relief, a British charitable organisation. For the former WJR-FM, see WDVD.
Not to be confused with WJRT-TV, WJRW, KJR (AM), or KJR-FM.

WJR
Broadcast areaSoutheast Michigan
Frequency760 kHz
BrandingNews Talk 760 WJR
Programming
FormatNews/talk
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WDVD
History
First air date
May 4, 1922; 102 years ago (1922-05-04)
Former call signs
  • WCX (1922–1925)
  • WJR-WCX (1925–1929)
Former frequencies
  • 833 & 619 kHz (1922)
  • 750 & 619 kHz (1922–1923)
  • 750 kHz (1923)
  • 580 kHz (1923–1927)
  • 680 kHz (1927–1928)
  • 750 kHz (1928–1941)
Call sign meaning
Former owner Jewett Radio & Phonograph Co.
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID8626
ClassA
Power50,000 watts (unlimited)
Transmitter coordinates
Repeater(s)96.3 WDVD-HD2 (Detroit)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.wjr.com

WJR (760 AM) is a commercial radio station in Detroit, Michigan, owned by Cumulus Media, with a news/talk radio format. Most of WJR's broadcast studios, along with its newsroom and offices, are in the Fisher Building in Detroit's New Center area. A tower atop the Fisher Building relays WJR's audio to the transmitter site, and at one time WJR-FM (currently WDVD) also used this tower. There is an additional satellite studio in the Wintergarden of the GM Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit.

WJR is a Class A clear channel station, operating with 50,000 watts, the maximum power for AM stations in the United States, around the clock. WJR's 1934 transmitter building — which has been called "one of the best Art Deco transmitter buildings ever"[2] — and transmitter tower are located near (and visible from) the intersection of Sibley and Grange Roads in Riverview, Michigan.[3]

Due to WJR's low transmitting frequency and high power, omnidirectional signal, plus the region's mostly flat land and good ground conductivity,[4] the station has unusually large daytime coverage, equivalent to that of a full-power FM station. Its daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage to most of the southern Lower Peninsula, as well as almost half of Ohio (with Cleveland and Toledo getting city-grade coverage) and slivers of Indiana and Pennsylvania. At night it can be heard throughout much of eastern North America with a good radio.

WJR programming is streamed via the web, and is simulcast on WDVD's 96.3 FM HD2 subchannel.[5] WJR is also licensed to broadcast a digital hybrid (HD) signal.[6]

WJR is Michigan's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WJR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "WJR transmitter building". detroit1701.org. October 2007.
  3. ^ "WJR-AM 760 kHz - Detroit, MI". radio-locator.com.
  4. ^ "Map of Effective Ground Conductivity in the United States for AM Broadcast Stations" (FCC.gov)
  5. ^ "HD Radio: Detroit, MI". HD Radio. Archived from the original on November 23, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  6. ^ "Station Search Details". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 16, 2015.