WVJZ

WVJZ
City	Charlotte Amalie, U. S. Virgin Islands
Branding	105 Jamz
Slogan	The Island's Phattest Flava
Frequency	105.3 FM (MHz)
First air date	December 23, 1985
Format	Mainstream Urban/Reggae, Calypso music
ERP	30,200 Watts
HAAT	483 meters (1586 feet)
Class	B
Facility ID	62113
Transmitter coordinates	18°21′33″N 64°58′18″W / 18.35917°N 64.97167°W / 18.35917; -64.97167
Callsign meaning	W V JamZ
Former callsigns	WVGN (1985-1998)
Owner	Ackley Media Group (GARK LLC)
Sister stations	WVWI, WWKS, WIVI
Website	http://www.amg.vi/

WVJZ (105.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Charlotte Amalie, U. S. Virgin Islands. The station is licensed to GARK LLC which is wholly owned by Gordon P. Ackley as part of the Ackley Media Group. It airs an Mainstream Urban and Reggae music format.^[1]

Lonely Planet's guide to the Virgin Islands describes this station as "the station for continuous R&B" in the USVI.^[2]

The Federal Communications Commission assigned the WVGN call letters to this station on December 23, 1985. It held this call sign until switching to the current WVJZ call letters on June 15, 1998.^[3]

Ownership

GARK LLC, originally a partnership between Gordon Ackley and Randolph Knight, was acquired solely by Gordon Ackley in April 2006 when Ackley bought out Knight's 50% interest for an undisclosed sum.^[4] GARK LLC is the licensee of WVJZ as well as sister stations WVWI and WWKS. Local press coverage pegged the sale price "in the neighborhood of $4.3 million" for the three-station combo.^[5]

References

↑ "Fall 2007 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
↑ Peffer, Randall (2001). Virgin Islands. Oakland, California: Lonely Planet. p. 41. ISBN 0-86442-735-2.
↑ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
↑ BIA Financial Networks (2006-05-01). "Deals". Broadcasting & Cable.
↑ Pennington, Shaun A. (2006-04-28). "Knight to Sell Radio One, KISS and JAMZ". St. Thomas Source. Retrieved December 25, 2007.

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Radio stations in the United States Virgin Islands

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See also: List of radio stations in U.S. Territories; Radio Stations in the British Virgin Islands

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