[3] A year after signing on, disc jockey and Jasper County native Jimmy Swan moved to WXXX, the fourth radio station he would broadcast on in town.
[5]) WXXX, a daytime-only station, twice attempted to improve its facility: in 1961, it applied to add nighttime service which would have operated on 1290 kHz, only to have the FCC almost immediately return the application,[1] while a move to 1290 was denied in a 1964 docket.
[6] Echo Broadcasting Corporation acquired the station three years later; general manager Bill Cornelius left Huntsville, Alabama, to run "Triple X".
[12] With this challenge pending, Saunders tried to sell WXXX again, this time to Timberline Broadcasting, for a total of $200,000; earlier in the year, the FCC had denied a license renewal of his Greenwood stations.
[15] Hubbard changed the call letters to WKOJ, for "With Knowledge of Jesus", and flipped the station from oldies to a noncommercial Christian format; the seller's owner, Joe Tatum, said that Media Systems was "not as familiar" with broadcast operations as with other industries.
In December 1984, Cathodic sued Awareness, saying it had ceased to make payments on the promissory note that allowed Hubbard to buy the radio station.
[17] The station solicited listener donations to try and pay the note and received extensions on its payment deadlines through much of 1985,[18][19] but by year's end, WKOJ had gone silent.
[24] The station also aired some secular programming, including an audio simulcast of the 6 p.m. newscast of local CBS affiliate WHLT, which debuted in 1989.