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WJER

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On Wednesday, February 22, 1950 at 6 a.m., WJER Radio began broadcasting operations in the present studio facility at 646 Boulevard, a parcel of land that was part of the Reeves family estate. The 175-foot "original" tower was erected on land with five miles of copper wire buried beneath its surface.
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Following World War II, the United States government saw the need to increase radio reach to citizens in rural as well as urban population centers, and many new AM stations were created. Jeremiah's daughter, Agnes (Reeves) Greer, filed for ownership of a new radio station for Dover, Ohio and was
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Jeremiah E. Reeves, for which WJER is named, was a member of one of the most influential families in Tuscarawas County, starting several major industries, banks and hotels in the Dover-New Philadelphia area. After his death in 1920, the Reeves family continued the leadership traditions begun by
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WJER-FM was granted a license and began broadcasting in 1969 on 101.7. Originally, the FM station programmed "beautiful music" and was popular in doctor's offices and in elevators. As time went by WJER put more emphasis on the FM station, going "live" full-time by 1992. Both stations were
660: 348:. Licensed to the area of Dover-New Philadelphia, Ohio, it serves the Tuscarawas County area. It first began broadcasting in 1950, and had an FM sister station (101.7 WJER-FM) that operated from 1969 to 2006, which is today 1857: 1320: 1847: 1313: 1852: 1701: 1306: 356:
in a reverse LMA by owner Gary Petricola, who repurchased the AM station in 2007. In February 2016, WJER returned to the FM band with a translator operating on 100.9 MHz.
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granted the license in 1949. As a tribute to her father, she requested the call letters for the station that were her father's initials, Jeremiah E. Reeves, or "JER".
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Effective June 1, 2022, WJER and translator W265DL were sold to Kevin Gray's WJER, LLC for $ 300,000.
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the next day. WJER continued to broadcast the original Dover/New Philadelphia-based programming.
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In 2006, Petricola's WJER Radio, LLC later repurchased the AM from Clear Channel for $ 200,000.
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for most of the broadcast day, a process which completed in December 2006.
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approved Clear Channel's request to move WJER-FM's community of license to
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WJER-FM signed off on December 27, and the license was transferred to
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locally-owned by Gary Petricola until 2003, when he sold them to
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Soft adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
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WJER is the local affiliate for the following teams:
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Dover
New Philadelphia, Ohio
Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Frequency
kHz
Format
Full service
soft rock
oldies
adult contemporary
Compass Media Networks
United Stations Radio Networks
Premiere Networks
Cavaliers AudioVerse
Cleveland Browns Radio Network
Cleveland Guardians Radio Network
Columbus Blue Jackets Radio Network
Ohio State Sports Network
1950
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FCC
Facility ID
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LMS
Webcast

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