KJMS
Encyclopedia
KJMS is an urban adult contemporary
radio station
in Memphis Tennessee, and serving the Mid-South
, area, owned by Clear Channel Communications
.
format, known as "K-Jams" before moving to its current format, using the slogan "V101.1". Prior to their flip to Urban as KRNB in 1981 they had a Gospel music
format and had the calls KWAM-FM. The station originally signed on in 1965 as KLYX with a beautiful music format, later switching to country.
Urban Adult Contemporary
Urban adult contemporary is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. Radio stations using this format usually would not have rap music on their playlists. The format was designed by Barry Mayo when he, Lee S. Simonson and Bill Pearson organized Broadcast...
radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
in Memphis Tennessee, and serving the Mid-South
Mid-South
Mid-South may refer to:*The East South Central States*The region centered on the Memphis and Little Rock MSAs, including portions of West Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and northeastern Arkansas, as well as the Missouri Bootheel and extreme northwestern Alabama; see Memphis metropolitan...
, area, owned by Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
.
History
KJMS previously had an Urban ContemporaryUrban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
format, known as "K-Jams" before moving to its current format, using the slogan "V101.1". Prior to their flip to Urban as KRNB in 1981 they had a Gospel music
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
format and had the calls KWAM-FM. The station originally signed on in 1965 as KLYX with a beautiful music format, later switching to country.