History
For most of its early years,the station was known as WKLO owned by Dayton, Ohio-based Great Trails Broadcasting which also owned several other Top 40 outlets in Ohio including WING, WIZE, WCOL (AM), WCOL-FM (also known as 92X WXGT throughout most of the 1980s) and WGTZ. WKLO provided competition to the original WAKY-790 (now WKRD (AM).) In 1979 it became WKJJ-AM, a 24/7 delayed broadcast of its FM sister WKJJ-FM (99.7 FM), which is now WDJX. Afterward it became WCII with several formats, most notably country. The station was assigned the call letters WWSN on 1993-05-15. On 1993-10-15, the station changed its call sign to WDJX; on 1994-10-31 to WRES; on 1995-07-17 to WHKM, and on 1996-09-27 to the current WKJK.
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