WDCJ (1240 kHz) is a classic hip hop formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Petersburg, Virginia, serving Metro Petersburg.[2] WDCJ is owned and operated by Urban One. The station's studios and offices are located just north of Richmond proper on Emerywood Parkway[3] in unincorporated Henrico County[4]
History
The station first signed on the air in 1945 as WSSV.[5] It was founded as a local station for the Petersburg area and operated as a Top 40 outlet for much of its early life.[6] In 1970, the station was purchased by Eure Communications, which also operated its FM sister station, WSSV-FM.[7]
In 1986, the station was sold to Paco-John Broadcasting and changed its call letters to WPLZ, beginning a long association with urban and gospel formats.[8] Three years later, in 1989, it became WGCV and shifted to a gospel format.[9] After a brief period as WROU in the mid-2000s under the ownership of Radio One (now Urban One),[10] the station adopted the WTPS call letters to match its "The People's Station" branding.
Logo as a sports station
The station has broadcast the programming of WXGI in Richmond since Urban One's purchase of that station on May 1, 2017, in order to give WXGI—at that time a sports station—a metro Richmond FM signal.[11] The stations eventually flipped to a classic hip-hop format known as " 99.5 and 102.7 The Box".[12]
On December 11, 2025, the station's call sign was changed to WDCJ as a side effect of a format flip involving the former WDCJ in the Washington, D.C. market.[13]
Translator
On July 9, 2016, WDCJ began relaying its signal on an FM translator to widen its broadcast area. The translator is fed by WCDX-HD2.[14]
