| WAJC | |
| Airdate: | April 2013 |
| Frequency: | 88.1 MHz |
| City: | Newport, Minnesota |
| Area: | Dakota County, Minnesota Southern Washington County, Minnesota |
| Format: | Contemporary Christian music |
| Owner: | Maranatha Assembly of God Church |
| Translator: | W219DT (91.7 MHz, North Branch, Minnesota) |
| Facility Id: | 174134 |
| Licensing Authority: | FCC |
| Erp: | 5,520 watts |
| Haat: | 22m (72feet) |
| Branding: | Real Life Radio |
| Class: | A |
| Webcast: | Listen Live |
| Website: | Official Website |
| Callsign Meaning: | WAlter Martin, Jesus Christ |
WAJC 88.1 FM is a radio station licensed to Newport, Minnesota, and serving the south central Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. The station broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format and is owned by the Maranatha Assembly of God Church. Its transmitter is located in a park near Coates.
On April 19, 2010, the FCC granted a construction permit to the Religious Information Network for a new noncommercial radio station on 88.1 MHz at Newport, a southeastern suburb of the Twin Cities. RIN intended to program a listener-supported station with a variety of Christian and community programming.[2] [3] [4] [5] The first two letters of its call sign, WAJC, stood for the station manager's father, Walter Martin, and the last two stood for Jesus Christ.[3] [4] [6] Its slogan was "Radio With a Mission".[3] Among the programming planned for the station were recordings of Walter Martin's radio program, The Bible Answer Man.[4] [6]
The station began broadcasting in April 2013 and was branded "The Remnant".[7] [8] "The Remnant" was the student-produced Christian rock format from the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, which was simulcast on the HD4 subchannel of that school's KTIS-FM.[9] In 2016, the station was sold to the Maranatha Assembly of God Church for $52,000.[10] [11]
In 2017, Maranatha Assembly of God Church purchased FM translator 91.7 W219DT in North Branch, Minnesota for $50,000, and the translator began rebroadcasting WAJC.[12] [13]