Prior to 1993, WCRJ was WNCM-FM. The station switched from
country music to
talk radio in 1995. 88.1 was originally owned by The River Educational Media; until 2011, it was home to
The Promise, which was first launched by Concord Media Group on 106.5 FM and was later purchased by Salem Communications. Salem then sold the signal to
Cox Radio in 2006 (in which they flipped that station to a simulcast of
WOKV-FM, now
WHJX), and The River agreed to take the Promise name and format, under a lease management agreement with The Promise Educational Media Inc. In 2011, The River sold WCRJ to the
Educational Media Foundation, which switched the station to its satellite-based
K-Love network on May 1, 2011, and then to its
Air1 network a few years later. On August 1, 2018, after being sold to
Radio Training Network, WCRJ flipped from the EMF's Air1 network to RTN's state-wide
The JOY FM network. ==References==