WJLB

FM98, WJLB, is a Clear Channel-owned mainstream urban radio station in Detroit that broadcasts on 97.9 megahertz (MHz) frequency. This is the station that began the career of Urban radio legend and video jock, Donnie Simpson in 1975.

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The station that became WJLB began operation in around May 7, 1941, as a testing station with 1,000 watts of power at 44.9 megahertz frequency. Later that monthon on May 24, it officially begans broadcasting as W49D, Michigan's second FM radio station. It was owned by John Lord Booth.

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On September 12, 1945, W49D is finally assigned a full-powered frequency at 96.5 megahertz and renamed with the calls WLOU. In June 1948, the station moves up to the 97.9 freqnency with the new calls, WJLB, the station call letters stood for John Lord Booth, the station's owner. Sometime between that time and 1980, the station's calls change to WMZK, which was a play on the word music, "MuZiK" with the slogan Station of the Nations.

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