WJKJ-FM

WJKJ-FM (99.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Wilmington, North Carolina. Owned by Audacy, Inc, it carries an adult hits format using the "Jack FM" brand. As of now, it has no air staff except for Ravinder Lee with her Jacktivities (events and whatever announcements deemed worthy by "Jack") and Winston Atkins who host the station's "Jack Weather Alert".

Unlike most Jack FM stations, the voice of Jack is provided by local voice actor Tim Koolie (who also played the character in many Jack FM branded stations across the Carolinas). The station's studios and transmitters are located at 48th Street in downtown Wilmington.

WWKL/The early years of WRAW-FM
On September 15, 1963, WJKJ-FM would sign on as WKKL. It was one of two FM stations in Wilmington to not have an AM sister stations, the other being future sister station WNMX-FM (then known as WMNC). It carried a classical music format and was locally owned by the Wilmington Public Arts Museum. In 1970, the museum would sell the station to the Raleigh based Capitol Broadcasting Company (owner of WRAL-FM-TV). A year later, the station dropped its classical music format in favor of becoming an album-oriented rock station.

In 1980, the station expanded its music catalogue, becoming a mainstream rock station (branded on air as 99 Rock). On August 3, 1983, the station would change its call-letters to WRAW-FM, at first the station retained its mainstream rock format and its branding until 1986 when it went under a major rehaul.

The Raw Rock
On New Years Day 1986, WRAW-FM would officially end its mainstream rock in favor of a new format dubbed "metal rock" which aired heavy metal and death metal songs. The first song to play on "The Raw Rock" was "Home Sweet Home" by Mötley Crüe. Back in the day, heavy metal and death metal songs didn't broadcast on radio stations that often. WRAW-FM would gain itself an audience of heavy metal fans and even helped popularized these songs into American pop culture.

In 1989, Capitol Broadcasting Company would sell WRAW-FM to Jacor Communications for $3 million. However, following the company's acquisition of rival rock station WWNC-FM (103.5 FM) in 1994, the station would be sold to EZ Communications which already WMXC-FM (now WKQC) and WSOC-FM in Charlotte, North Carolina. Effectively, marking the company's first North Carolina station outside of Charlotte.

Mix 99.3
For the Wilmington station that currently uses the call-letters from 2006-2009 and 2018-present, see WNMX-FM.

On October 30, 1995, citing a decline in ratings, WRAW-FM would end its metal rock format in favor of a hot adult contemporary format. The station would know be branded "Mix 99.3", and its call-letters were changed to WNMX-FM, in order to reflect the new branding. The last song to play on "The Raw Rock" was "Lost at 22" by Life of Agony, while the first song to play on "Mix 99.3" is "I'll Be There for You" by The Rembrandts.

In 1996, EZ Communications would be acquired by American Radio Systems, the sale would close by April 4, 1997. During the acquisition, the station would adopt a logo that was based on sister station WBMX-FM (98.5 FM, now WBZ-FM).

In June 1998, American Radio Systems would have its own merger with Infinity Radio, American Radio Systems would remain as an in-name only subsidiary until 2005 when Infinity Radio would change its name to CBS Radio.

99.3 Jack FM
On May 20, 2006, it was announced that WNMX-FM's format would be transferred over to sister station WMVR-FM. Throughout the day until June 1, the station aired a series of ads that promoted the format change, all colloquially called "Jack of the June". On May 31, 2006 at 11:00pm, WNMX-FM on 99.3 FM would air its final song "Breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson. Then after that, the station went to static, it returned the next day at 8am switching to an adult hits format using the Jack FM branding, the station also changed its call-letters to WJKJ-FM. The first song to play on 99.3 Jack FM was "Take on Me' by A-ha.

Tim Koolie, a voice actor from Wilmington would provide the voice of Jack for that station, it is unknown why the station choose him to play the role of Jack over Howard Cogan (who provides the voice of Jack throughout all Jack FM stations), but it might have been a way to give the station some local flair. Tim would eventually become the voice of Jack throughout many Jack FM stations in the Carolinas.

In early 2007, CBS Radio considered plans to sell their Wilmington stations to Cumulus Media, however these plans have fizzled out.

On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th.