WJUC

WJUC ("The Juice") is a commercial Urban contemporary music radio station in Swanton, Ohio, broadcasting to the Swanton, Ohio-Toledo, Ohio area on 107.3 FM. The station's studios are located in Toledo, and its transmitter is located north of Swanton. WJUC is the Toledo area affiliate of The Chubb Rock Show, The Michael Baisden Show, and Love and R&B With Al B. Sure!.

WJUC
CitySwanton, Ohio
Broadcast areaToledo, Ohio
Frequency107.3 MHz
Branding"The Juice 107.3"
SloganHits From Back in The Day & Today
Programming
FormatUrban contemporary
Ownership
OwnerFleming Street Communications, Inc.
History
First air date
1997
Call sign meaning
JUiCe
Technical information
ClassA
ERP3,000 watts
HAAT100 meters
Links
Websitehttp://www.thejuice1073.com/

WJUC, which began broadcasting in 1997, was the first African-American owned-and-operated radio station in the Toledo market and is one of the few radio stations in the area that is still locally owned and operated. "The Juice" began as a station playing a wide variety of musical styles appealing to African-American listeners, including rap, soul oldies, gospel music, and blues. Today, the station's playlist consists almost exclusively of R&B and urban contemporary hits, aside from a Sunday-morning gospel music show.

WJUC is the brainchild of Charles "Charlie Chuck" Welch, a former disc jockey at the now-defunct WKLR-FM (now WKKO).

WJUC primarily competes with Urban Radio Broadcasting's WIMX-FM (Mix 95.7) for the ears of Urban AC listeners in Toledo. The Juice's ratings have fallen in recent years due to competition, which is now usually the higher-rated (12+) of the two stations. WJUC also suffers from a signal that becomes scratchy in the eastern portion of the Toledo metro area and under certain weather conditions is sometimes swamped by co-channel interference from WNWV-FM in Elyria, Ohio, although the station continues to enjoy respectable ratings despite its limited reach.

Effective May 25, 2017, Welch Communications assigned the license for WJUC to Fleming Street Communications, Inc., a corporation controlled by Charles Welch's children.


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