WJOU is a non-commercial

Non-commercial

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, listener-supported college radio station licensed to Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the central part of the far northern region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 Census....

, and owned and operated by Oakwood University. It serves the Oakwood University community and the Tennessee Valley

Tennessee Valley

The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky to northwest Georgia and from northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina...

 area.

The station began back in the early/mid-1970s as a powerline-fed carrier current

Carrier current

Carrier current is a method of low power AM radio transmission that uses the AC electrical system of a building to propagate a medium frequency, AM signal to a relatively small area, such as a building or a group of buildings...

 AM station operating as WOAK. The broadcast FM station had held the WOCG call letters since it was initially licensed by the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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 but on January 4, 2008

2008 in radio

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, the callsign was changed to WJOU. This change was made to reflect the January 1, 2008 change of Oakwood College's name to Oakwood University.

Programming

WJOU plays a blend of Christian contemporary, urban contemporary gospel

Urban contemporary gospel

Traditional black gospel is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...

, and adult contemporary music that they call "Inspirational Soul". The station also airs brief educational and spiritually uplifting programs.

Notable alumni of this station include comedian Jonathan Slocumb, talk radio

Talk radio

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 host and producer Hallerin Hilton Hill, broadcaster Toni Neal

Toni Neal

Toni Neal is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster.-Biography:She got her start as an intern at WJLB-FM in Detroit in 1992 while attending Cass Technical High School. Born in the inner city of Detroit she was place into foster care and remained there for 14 years; until she went to Alabama to attend...

, plus FlavaTV host and disc jockey Skip Cheatham.