WRJA-FM
WRJA-FM is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, United States, serving both Columbia and Florence, South Carolina. It is the flagship of the statewide public radio "News and Talk Network" from South Carolina Public Radio and is a member of NPR.
WRJA-FM's offices and studios are on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia. The transmitter is on ETV Tower Road in Sumter, sharing a tower with co-owned WRJA-TV.
History
The station signed on the air on August 25, 1975. Its original call sign was WMPR. It was part of the South Carolina Educational Radio Network, featuring local programming from SCERN as well as network shows from NPR. It became WRJA-FM in 1980.In 2001, the station, along with WJWJ-FM in Beaufort/Charleston and WHMC in Conway/Myrtle Beach, began airing a separate program schedule from the rest of the SCERN stations. These outlets, part of the "News and Talk Network," began carrying a mix of news and information programs with some jazz, blues and world music on weekends. The remaining stations, part of the "News and Music Network," play classical music during middays and nights with news and information programs during morning and afternoon drive times and some hours on weekends.