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WJJA
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| WJJA | |
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| Racine / Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
| Branding | TV 49 |
| Channels | 49 (UHF) analog, 48 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | Shop at Home Jewelry Television |
| Owner | Joel J. Kinlow |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Call letters meaning | W-Joel Joel(Son). and Arvis Kinlow |
| Former affiliations | Home Shopping Network (1990-1995) The Military Channel (1995-96) |
WJJA, channel 49, is a full powered independent television station serving the Greater Milwaukee area. The station, which is owned by Joel J. Kinlow, is licensed to Racine, Wisconsin with its transmitter in nearby Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
WJJA signed on the air in 1990 as an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network. By 1995 it would drop HSN for The Military Channel (unrelated to the current Discovery Channel network of the same name) but would drop them by 1996, when they returned to airing to home shopping, eventually joining Shop At Home as an affiliate.
WJJA was not only the first 100% Minority Owned Television Station in America but the same year it was licensed, it became the first 100% minority operated television station in America when the licensing engineer left leaving a 100% Minority Staff operating the station. Joel J Kinlow has maintained the cultural significance of the stations position in history while providing opportunity for employment and training to people of all ethnicities.
In 1994 the station was offered a deal to join CBS as an affiliate, but Kinlow turned them down because it wanted to continue offering viewers a local choice that was free of network affiliation. CBS went to WDJT.
On May 16, 2006, parent company E.W. Scripps announced that Shop at Home would be suspending operations, effective June 22, 2006. [1] However, the network temporarily ceased operations on June 21, and WJJA switched to Jewelry Television (and, on June 23, a mixture of both networks), due to that network acquiring some SAH assets. [2].
 WJJA logo, from 2001 |
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WTMJ 4 (NBC) - WITI 6 (FOX) - WMKE-CA 7 (A1) - WMVS 10 (PBS) - WISN 12 (ABC) - WVTV 18 (The CW) - WCGV 24 (MNTV) - WVCY 30 (FN) - WMVT 36 (PBS) - WBWT-LP 38 (AZA) - WMLW-CA 41 (Ind) - WJJA 49 (S@H/JTV) - WWRS 52 (TBN) - WPXE 55 (ION) - WDJT 58 (CBS) - WYTU-LP 63 (TEL) |
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Religious Stations: WBIJ 4 (FamilyNet, Crandon) - W23BW 23 (3ABN, Madison)) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MNTV, NBC and PBS stations in Wisconsin | |