page_title: WRJO
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: WRJO / History
caption_attribution_description: Looking at the studios for WRJO / WERL on w:U.S. Route 45 in w:Eagle River, Wisconsin. This file was uploaded with Commonist.
context_page_description: WRJO is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Hits music format. Licensed to Eagle River, Wisconsin, United States. The station is currently owned by Heartland Communications Group LLC and features programming from SRN.
context_section_description: The station went on the air in 1971 as WERL-FM. On 1985-04-05, the station changed its call sign to the current WRJO.
  The WERL call sign remains on its AM station at 950 kHz.
  WERL was a reference to "Werl (as in "Whirl")-Wide Radio", taken from its early logo in the 1960s and 70s.
  Before the oldies format, WRJO held a country music format with the nickname "Eagle Country".
  WRJO became affiliated with the Milwaukee Brewers Radio Network taking the affiliation away from sister station WNWX “Mix 96” in Rhinelander.
caption: WRJO & WERL Studios
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