• For the former KMJC-FM, see KKLC

KMJC (620 AM

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) is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a talk radio

Talk radio

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 format. Licensed to Mount Shasta, California

Mount Shasta, California

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, USA, the station is currently owned by Jefferson Public Radio

Jefferson Public Radio

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 in association with Southern Oregon College.

History

The station, founded 1947 by David Rees, Sr. of the Shasta Cascade Broadcasting Corporation, signed on the air as KWSD. After the "K", the call letters originally stood for W (Weed) S (Shasta) D (Dunsmuir). The station aired various formats over the years, including rock, country

Country music

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 and news talk

Talk radio

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. Rees had previously spent two decades with KMED

KMED

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 in Medford, Oregon

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.

KWSD was the only station in the Mt. Shasta market until 1976, when a companion FM station, KEDY-FM, went on the air. Station personalities through the years included Rees, his sons Dave Jr. and Jon, Dave Niles, Stephen Rizzo, Michael Killian, Paul Whitney, Perry Sims, John Hart, Fred Gerding Jr., Bill Craig, Dave Jr.'s son Dennis Rees, Brian Hembling and Robin Von. Programming varied from middle-of-the-road, to country, to rock, to various network and satellite programming. The AM station operated during daylight hours only at 1,000 non-directional watts with 500 pre-sunrise watts. By the 1990s, the AM station was allowed to broadcast after sundown at 29 watts.

KWSD was one of the stations sold to Siskiyou Radio Partners, Inc. in 1995, owned by Tom Huth and Bob Darling. The call letters were changed to KMJC, as was KEDY. KMJC's format was changed to news/talk. The station was then sold to Four Rivers Broadcasting, who also purchased KMJC-FM, KSYC

KSYC (AM)

KSYC is a Jefferson Public Radio affiliate radio station based in Yreka, California.-History:The station was founded in the 1940s and signed on the air as a country music station, which had been Yreka's radio staple for many years...

, KSYC-FM and then KWHO-FM

KCWH

-Format change:With each successive change of ownership, KCWH has undergone minor to major format changes. The 2009 ownership change will be no exception, with TRC planning on bringing back the Rush Limbaugh Show "in very short order"...

 in 2001. Two years later, Jefferson Public Radio

Jefferson Public Radio

Jefferson Public Radio is a regional public radio broadcasting network serving a mostly rural area of Southern Oregon and Northern California. As of 2004, it reaches over 700,000 potential listeners via the largest translator network in public radio...

, in association with Southern Oregon College, acquired both KMJC-AM/FM and KSYC AM/FM from Four Rivers. Jefferson Public Radio

Jefferson Public Radio

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 and its programming covers far Northern California

Northern California

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  and Southern Oregon

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with an affiliation of small local stations.