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{{For|the Gaithersburg, Maryland AM radio station that held the WJOK call letters from 1980 until 1984|WMET}}
{{short description|Relevant Radio station in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, United States}}
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{{Infobox radio station
| name             = WJOK
| logo             =
| city             = [[Kaukauna, Wisconsin]]
| area             = [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]]-[[Appleton, Wisconsin|Appleton]]-[[Oshkosh, Wisconsin|Oshkosh]]
| branding         = [[Relevant Radio]]
| airdate          = {{start date|1965|9|25}}
| frequency        = 1050 [[Kilohertz|kHz]]
| translator       = {{Radio Relay|95.7 [[MHz]]|W239CV|Oshkosh}}<br>{{Radio Relay|107.9 MHz|W300CM|Appleton}}
| format           = [[Christian radio]]
| power            = 1,000 [[watt]]s day<br>500 watts night
| facility_id      = 19879
| class            = B
| callsign_meaning = '''J'''esus '''O'''ur '''K'''ing (backronymed calls; formerly stood for "'''Jo'''c'''k'''" for last commercial sports format)
| former_callsigns = WKAU (1965–1984)<br>WQWM (1984–1993)<br>WSGC (1993–1999)
| owner            = [[Relevant Radio]]
| licensee         = Relevant Radio, Inc.
| sister_stations  =
| webcast          = [https://relevantradio.com/wp-content/media/player.html Listen Live]
| website          = {{URL|https://relevantradio.com/}}
| affiliations     = [[Relevant Radio]]
|coordinates = {{coord|44|14|51|N|88|18|00|W|type:landmark_region:US|display=inline,title}}
| licensing_authority= [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
}}
'''WJOK''' (1050 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) is a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Christian radio|Christian]] formatted [[radio station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Kaukauna, Wisconsin]], that serves the [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]] and [[Appleton, Wisconsin|Appleton]]-[[Oshkosh, Wisconsin|Oshkosh]] areas. The station is owned by the Green Bay-based [[Relevant Radio]] network.
The station originally signed on as WKAU in a [[Top 40]] format. In 1984, the station was sold to Quinn Martin of Milwaukee who changed the call letters to his initials, WQWM, and made it an [[oldies]] music format. The station changed hands again in 1993 to a new ownership who changed the calls to WSGC and the format to [[Christian country music|"Positive Country"]] music. Another sale in 1999 resulted in the station becoming all-sports "1050 The Jock, WJOK," which carried programming from the national Sports Fan Radio Network as well as local broadcasts of [[Wisconsin Timber Rattlers]] baseball. WJOK was purchased by [[Starboard Broadcasting]] in 2000, and the station joined Starboard's Relevant Radio network on November 26 of that year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kaukauna radio station is sold, switches formats |first=Eric |last=Klister |newspaper= Appleton Post-Crescent |date=Nov 29, 2000 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/437128553 |id={{ProQuest|437128553}} |url-access=subscription |via=ProQuest}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official|http://www.relevantradio.com/}}
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{{Green Bay Radio}}
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