WJDB-FM

WJDB-FM broadcasts a country music format described in the station's promotions as "hot country".{{cite web|publisher=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/ |title=Station Information Profile |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301134627/http://www.arbitron.com/ |archive-date=March 1, 2010 }} However, the station is locally programmed and is not a subscriber to the Hot Country satellite-fed syndicated format from Dial Global.

In addition to its regular music programming, WJDB-FM is an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network,{{cite web |work=The Official Site of the Atlanta Braves |title=Affiliate Radio Stations |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/atl/schedule/affiliates.jsp |access-date=December 10, 2008}} airs Auburn Tigers college football and men's basketball games,{{cite web |publisher=The Auburn University Official Athletic Site |title=Football Affiliates |url=http://auburntigers.cstv.com/sponsorship/aub-footbl-affiliates.html |date=December 10, 2008}} and broadcasts select local high school football and baseball games.

The station was assigned the "WJDB-FM" call sign by the Federal Communications Commission in 1972.{{cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=25381&Callsign=WJDB-FM |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database}} The station's call letters were chosen to honor the radio station's creator, Joel Dige Bishop.

In the early-to-mid-1980s, WJDB went off the air at 6:00 p.m. with the famous sign off which started with, "It's sundown in Thomasville and WJDB has concluded another day of broadcasting." While the AM station was concluding a day, WJDB-FM continued till 10:00 p.m. Taking into consideration the number of youth in the area, WJDB-FM took this opportunity to not play country music, but rather the pop music of the day, including A-Ha, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and The Fat Boys.

In November 1990, licensee WJDB Radio, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Griffin Broadcasting Corporation. The deal was approved by the FCC on January 4, 1991, and the transaction was consummated on January 31, 1991.{{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BALH-19901113HQ) |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=154212 |date=January 31, 1991}}

On October 25, 2005, WJDB-FM was granted a construction permit by the FCC to upgrade to a class C2 station, increase their effective radiated power to 40,000 watts, and relocate their broadcast transmitter to the tower site of now-defunct sister station WJDB {{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BPH-20050407HRO) |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1056871 |date=November 18, 2008}} Station owners told the local press that construction would be completed in about one year; however, the construction was not completed when the permit expired three years later on October 27, 2008, and the permit was ultimately cancelled by the FCC on November 18, 2008.

Trey Rowell hosts The Morning Rush weekdays from 5 am-9 am. A mix of classic country, and rock, as well as blues, folk, bluegrass, americana, and up and coming artists. Rowell also does play by play for local baseball and football games and also hosts The High School Football Scoreboard show in the fall.

In August 1976, WJDB announcer and ad salesman John D. McDonald, affectionately known as "Johnny Mac", was a candidate for mayor of Thomasville, Alabama.{{cite news |work=The Thomasville Times |title=Looking Back: Mockingbird returns to nest to raise another litter of wonderful singers |first=Velma |last=Dement |url=http://www.thethomasvilletimes.com/news/2003/0716/People_Places/033.html |date=July 16, 2003}} A US Navy veteran and former member of the local school board, McDonald was elected mayor by a narrow margin.{{cite news |work=The Thomasville Times |title=Looking Back: Politics dominated the news back in 1976 |first=Velma |last=Dement |url=http://www.thethomasvilletimes.com/news/2003/0813/People_Places/034.html |date=August 13, 2003}}

WJDB is name-checked as the "one good station" in the area in the mystery short story "Poachers" by Tom Franklin as published in The Best American Mystery Stories 1999, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain.{{cite book |title=The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 |editor=McBain, Ed and Otto Penzler |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=0-395-93915-1 |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibm7_lswKrEC&q=wjdb+radio |quote=He had his radio and one good station, WJDB of Thomasville, and money enough.|date=October 1999 }}

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