WRJZ

WRJZ (Joy 620) is a Christian talk radio station in Knoxville, TN that broadcasts on 620 AM. It is owned by Tennessee Media Associates.

Programming

Bob Bell hosts the morning show. Among the syndicated programs airing on Joy 620 are Focus on the Family, Chuck Swindoll's Insight for Living, In Touch with Charles Stanley, and Harold Smith's Radio Bible Hour.

WRJZ also airs Carson-Newman College football.

History

At one time this station was WATE. The frequency changed to 620 and the call letters changed twice, first to WETE.

WRJZ signed on with its current call letters in 1976 with a top 40 format, and J.J. Scott was one of the station's best-known personalities.

Adele Arakawa, the first female DJ in Knoxville, worked at WRJZ broadcasting Top 40 music for 5 years in the late 1970s.

Other DJs from WRJZ's late 1970s Top 40 era who became well-known were "John Boy" Isley, of the "John-Boy and Billy Big Show" emanating from Charlotte, NC. and Mark Thompson, of "Mark and Brian", the FM drive team who have been on 95.5 KLOS for 20-plus years.