WEMK (1460AM) is acommercialradio stationlicensed toWest Allis, Wisconsin, and serving theGreater Milwaukeeradio market. Owned by Evangel Ministries under its subsidiary The Family Radio Network, Inc, the station carriesChristian contemporary music as part of a statewide network of stations.^[2]

By day, WEMK is powered at 1,000watts. But to protect other stations on1460 AM from interference, it reduces power at night to 240 watts. Programming is also heard onFM translatorW273DQ at 102.5MHz.

The stationsigned on the air on June 4, 1950, as WRAC inRacine. The owner of the station purchased another Racine station,WRJN-FM in 1969, changing it to WRAC-FM. A year later, the FM station flipped to a rock-leaningtop 40 format as WRKR, and in 1975, WRAC adopted thatcall sign, simulcasting WRAC-FM.^[3] It was also for a brief time WWEG ("The Country Egg") before returning to WRKR and againsimulcasting the FM signal. Later, there was a short livedSpanish format.

The station switched calls to WBZN on October 14, 1987, simulcasting itssister station’s newsmooth jazz format. Both stations flipped tourban contemporary in June 1991, becoming WKKV. The AM station broke away from the simulcast in November 1993, flipping to a Spanish-language format as WBJX. In 2007, the station moved to the Milwaukee suburb ofWest Allis and changed its call sign to WJTI.^[4]

On December 17, 2021, WJTI beganstunting withChristmas music and launched a simulcast on new translator W273DQ (102.5 FM). The previousRegional Mexican format continues through former translator 97.9 W250BN, which is now fed via the HD3 sub-channel ofWMYX-FM. On December 26, 2021, WJTI and W273BQ flipped to a smooth jazz format as "102.5 FM".^[5]

The sale oftranslator station W250BN to El Sol was completed in May 2014, with El Sol beginning to simulcast WJTI upon it over that month's Memorial Day weekend. Previously the station had independently been a translator ofWisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network viaWHAD (90.7) under the ownership of "Radio Power, Inc.", whichmoved the translator over the years up theRock Freeway corridor fromBeloit in an attempt to move it to Milwaukee in order to likely present a ready-made signal for a commercial operation to broadcast anHD Radio subchannel or AM signal over. The moves were questioned by theFederal Communications Commission, with a denial of a construction permit to theMPTV Tower in theShorewood tower farm and an inquiry to Radio Power on their motives before the purchase by El Sol.^[6][7] Radio Power eventually was approved to transmit from theHilton Milwaukee City Center tower in the downtown area, which is closer to the core Latino-American neighborhoods on Milwaukee's south side which WJTI serves than the Shorewood site.On December 17. 2021, WJTI signed ontranslator station 102.5 W273DQ, which serves the Milwaukee market.

• Facility details for Facility ID 68759 (WJTI) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• WJTI inNielsen Audio's AM station database
  • Facility details for Facility ID 202887 (W273DQ) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
  • W273DQ at FCCdata.org
• Former WBJX Website
• The only 'champion' for local Hispanic radio
• FCC History Cards for WJTI

• Radio stations in Wisconsin
• Smooth jazz radio stations in the United States
• Radio stations established in 1950
• 1950 establishments in Wisconsin
• West Allis, Wisconsin
• Racine, Wisconsin

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