WOKJ was the last call sign for a now-defunct American radio station in Jackson, Mississippi. The station operated at 1550 kHz, and with a daytime output power of 50,000 watts during the day, and 10,000 watts at night, with changing directional …

WOKJ was the last call sign for a now-defunct American radio station in Jackson, Mississippi. The station operated at 1550 kHz, and with a daytime output power of 50,000 watts during the day, and 10,000 watts at night, with changing directional …

2006年7月31日 · WOKJ continued to prosper until the untimely death of Mr. Mclendon (another story) and later under the ownership of Skyline Network (E.O and Zane Roden). One they were off the scene, things began to dissipate and went from bad to worse, finally going silent. There are numerous side stories...but these are the basic facts.

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2016年12月17日 · O.C. White and Jim Frazier talk about the history of Black radio from the days of 1590 WAWA about a year before the station went dark. The old jocks… where are they now and what stations were they heard?

Since 1954, when the state's first black-programmed radio station started broadcasting from a tiny cinder-block building on Lynch Street, WOKJ served and supported a community locked out of …

Joe “Poppa Rock” Louis was a disc jockey at WOKJ in Jackson, Mississippi. Here he is on the air in 1975 introducing “Everybody Wants To Know Why I Sing The Blues” by B.B. King. From William Ferris’s film “Give My Poor Heart Ease.”

Black and white photograph showing Bruce Payne on the telephone in the broadcasting room at WOKJ radio station. "Payne, Bruce." is a duplicate of an LCNAF--need more information to make his name unique.

Bruce Payne, WOKJ Radio Station, Jackson. Primary William Ferris (Vicksburg, MS, February 5, 1942 -) Date 1974. Medium Archival pigment print. Dimensions 11 in. x 17 in. (27.94 cm x 43.18 cm) Classifications (not assigned) Credit Line Gift of the artist. Object number 2009.117. Status. On view. Collections.

2023年10月2日 · King left Brown after four and a half years and landed an engineer’s position at WOKJ radio in Jackson, MS. After working for a year at WOKJ, Lee had ambitions to produce a dance variety television show and promote concerts. He wrote, produced, and hosted “Black Gold” dance TV show for 21 years.