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WDCJ

Radio station in Petersburg, Virginia

WDCJ (1240 kHz) is a classic hip hop formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Petersburg, Virginia, serving Metro Petersburg. WDCJ is owned and operated by Urban One. The station's studios and offices are located just north of Richmond proper on Emerywood Parkway in unincorporated Henrico County

01History

The station first signed on the air in 1945 as WSSV. It was founded as a local station for the Petersburg area and operated as a Top 40 outlet for much of its early life. In 1970, the station was purchased by Eure Communications, which also operated its FM sister station, WSSV-FM.

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. Three years later, in 1989, it became WGCV and shifted to a gospel format. After a brief period as WROU in the mid-2000s under the ownership of Radio One (now Urban One), the station adopted the WTPS call letters to match its "The People's Station" branding.

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. The stations eventually flipped to a classic hip-hop format known as " 99.5 and 102.7 The Box".

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.

Logo as a sports station
Logo as a sports station

02Translator

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.

Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)HAATClassFCC info
W274BX 102.7 FMPetersburg, Virginia15401218086 m (282 ft)DLMS
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