WJMO

WJMO (1300 AM) – branded Praise 1300 – is a commercial urban gospel/talk radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio. Owned by Radio One, the station serves Greater Cleveland, and is the Cleveland affiliate for The Yolanda Adams Morning Show and Keepin' It Real with Al Sharpton. Its studios are located along the Euclid Avenue Corridor in Cleveland's eastside, while the station transmitter resides in the Cleveland suburb of Parma.

History

WERE (1300 AM)

WJMO began as WERE on July 6, 1949, broadcasting as 1300 kHz. Unlike most AM stations of the time, WERE actually went on the air a year after its FM sister station, WERE-FM at 98.5 MHz. Both stations lasted under common ownership for the next fifty years, as WERE-FM primarily simulcast the programming of its more popular AM sister station over the next 24 years, where it went into separate programming as WGCL.

During the 1950s, WERE was the first popular Top 40 station in the market, spearheaded by now-legendary personalities like Bill Randle, "Captain" Carl Reese, Phil McLean, Ronnie Barrett, Howie Lund and Bob Forster. Randle was the most influential of the group, as he was the first major-market disk jockey in the Northeast United States to play Elvis Presley, and bolstered the careers of a number of young musicians, including The Four Lads, Bobby Darin, and Fats Domino. Future NBC announcer and voice-over artist Danny Dark also was a host on WERE in the early 1960s.

WJMO (disambiguation)

WJMO may refer to: