WMJI

WMJI (105.7 FM, "Majic 105.7") is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, featuring a classic hits format. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. WMJI's studios are located in downtown Cleveland's Gateway District at the Six Six Eight Building, while the transmitter is sited in Parma. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WMJI broadcasts over two HD Radio channels and is also available online via iHeartRadio. This station signed on as WTAM-FM in 1948, the FM extension of NBC-owned WTAM, and originally acted as an outright simulcast of the AM station. Both stations, along with WNBK (channel 3), were traded by NBC to Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1955 in exchange for Westinghouse's KYW and KYW-TV in Philadelphia; the KYW call signs were transferred to the Cleveland stations after the trade closed. Westinghouse began programming KYW-FM independently in 1958 with classical music and fine arts fare, but removed all local announcers one year later due to an absence of advertising revenue. After the Westinghouse-NBC trade was ordered to be reversed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), NBC retook control of the Cleveland stations in June 1965, rebadging them WKYC, WKYC-FM and WKYC-TV. WKYC-FM retained its classical format after WCLV, which had a classical format of their own, successfully lobbied NBC to retain the format. By 1971, WKYC-FM switched to an easy listening format. NBC spun off WKYC and WKYC-FM to Nick Mileti in 1972, with WKYC becoming WWWE and WKYC-FM becoming WWWM. By 1975, WWWM was relaunched as album-oriented rock "M-105", competing intensely against crosstown WMMS for listeners, then transitioned to classic rock by the early 1980s. Mileti sold minority control of WWWM to brothers Tom and Jim Embrescia, who were also station executives; the Embrescias bought WBBG at the...