KAJA San Antonio, "KJ97" is a Country Music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 station 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...

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History

The station was founded in 1951 as KEEZ and owned by Charles Balthrope. It was sold to San Antonio Broadcasting Company in 1975. SABC was owned by Lowry Mays, BJ Red McCombs, and a Paul Schaffer (not the one from The Late Show). A year later the same owners bought WOAI (AM) in San Antonio, and owing to WOAI operating as a class I (now class A) named their company Clear Channel Communications. In the late seventies SBC and Clear Channel were merged into a new Clear Channel, which went on to own more than 1,000 radio radio stations.

Previously KEEZ and then WOAI-FM, the station adopted the KAJA calls and current format in 1981. They are also one of two Country music FMs in the San Antonio market, the other being rival KCYY

KCYY

KCYY is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to San Antonio, Texas, USA, the station serves the city's area. It is currently owned by Cox Radio after the sale by New City Communications....

, whom they have competed with since 1987.

On October 18, 2010 it was announced that they won a 2010 CMA Large Market Radio Station of the Year. They accepted the award at the show in November.

Personalities

• Randy Carroll- Weekday Mornings 6-10am
• Jamie Martin
  Jamie Martin
  Jamie Martin may refer to:*Jamie Martin , American football player*Jamie Martin , a character on the soap opera All My Children...
  
  - Weekday Mornings 6-10am
• TJ
  TJ
  -Places:* Tajikistan, ISO 3166-1 country code** .tj, the country code top level domain for Tajikistan* Tianjin, China* a popular nickname for Tijuana, Mexico-People:* Thomas Jones , a Welsh educationalist...
  
  - Weekday Middays 10am-3pm
• Travis Moon- Weekday Afternoons 3-7pm
• Ty Bentli- Weekday Nights 7-11pm
• Bree
  Bree
  - People :Surname* Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer* Declan Bree, Irish politician* James Bree, British actor* Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch composer, musician* Herbert Bree, Anglican BishopGiven name* Bree Amer, Australian television personality...
  
  - Weekday Nights 11p-Midnight

External links

• KJ-97's website