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WJQS (1400AM) is asports talk radio station inJackson, Mississippi, owned byConnoisseur Media through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Along with five other sister stations, its studios are located inRidgeland, a suburb of Jackson, while the transmitter tower is in Jackson just north of downtown.

For many years, this station was called "Fun Country - 1400 WJQS". Television news anchor Bert Case began his career in broadcasting at this station.

In the 1960s, the station's studios were moved to a small building onTerry Road, nearJackson State University. Ann Zimmerman owned the station, and the format was country-Western music. News was broadcast every 20 minutes.

In 1983, WJQS was sold to John Pembroke who switched the call letters to WOAD and changed the format toblack gospel. In 1988 the station was sold to Holt Communications, the owners ofWJMI andWOKJ at that time. In 1996, the call letters and format were swapped withWKXI (1300 AM). WKXI on 1400 aired a partyblues/oldies format before being entering into alocal marketing agreement with Pollack Broadcasting in 2008.

From October 2008 to June 2009, WJQS' format was businesstalk, and its nickname was "The Money Station". In June 2009, the station switched toadult standards as an affiliate ofMusic of Your Life. From January 2009 to February 2011, WJQS broadcast the Radio Shopping Show in conjunction with these formats.

On February 25, 2011, WJQS became "Oldies 1400" and started airing a 1950s-1970s oldies format. More recently, WJQS gradually evolved to 1960s-1980s oldies. On January 1, 2017, the station switched from oldies to sports as "The Fan", with programming fromCBS Sports Radio.

• Facility details for Facility ID 50409 (WJQS) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• WJQS inNielsen Audio's AM station database

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• Facility details for Facility ID 85887 (W292EX) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• W292EX at FCCdata.org

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