The station signed on with a regular broadcasting schedule on February 7, 1972.

The original call letters were WJJE. The station was the brainchild of teacher/founder Bill Fraser. C-SPAN's Brian Lamb got his start in the RTV program at Jefferson High School.

The station is located in the Radio-TV Center at Jefferson High School, 1801 S. 18th Street, Lafayette Indiana.

The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  A computer automation system takes over during after school hours, weekends, and holidays.  

The station broadcasts all  home and away football and boy's/girl's  home and away basketball games.

Students have special morning shows from 7:00-8:00 AM.

The station's music format is OLDIES, with news every hour on the half-hour during school hours.

Students enrolled in the Broadcast Media classes are responsible for the daily operation of the station, with students serving in positions from Program Director to news announcers.

Fans of the station seem to enjoy the music, the fact there are NO commercials, and the opportunity to hear bright, young high school students learning right on the air.

WJEF can also be heard as background music on Insight Communications cable channel 5 during the Lafayette School Corporation's scheduled times.

The station's primary music delivery format is compact disc. Mini-discs are also used .  Audio from the automation system is in the form of .WAV files, and can be used in jock assist mode.

JEFF 92, WJEF will take requests, and tries to honor them as best as we can- call 772-4736.

OTHER TIIMELINE INFORMATION

Spring 1985- Middle of the Road format is changed to Adult Contemporary. Music is added to the library via audio carts- with LP records phased out

Fall 1987- Station slogan identifier changed as we became Easy Rock 91.9 and tried to change our image!

Fall 1990- Oldies format debuts, replacing the Adult Contemporary/ Easy Rock format that had been in use since 1985, and we officially become JEFF 92.

October 1996- A new 1000 watt transmitter was installed, replacing the original Harris model that was 25 years old.

 Summer of 1998-radio control room completely rewired. New audio board, audio console, speakers, and wiring prepare the station for the new millennium!

May 1999- Remote starts hooked up on main audio board.

August 1999- Station sign-on changed from 7:15 A.M. to 7:00 A.M. New hours are 7-4 Mon-Fri. 

September 1999- Pentium PC used for recording and editing on-air spots. February 2000- On February 7, WJEF celebrated 28 years of student-run radio.

May 2000- Automation Equipment arrives and the process of recording music to the hard drives of the automation computers begins.

Summer 2000- Automation equipment is installed. Staff gears up for extended broadcast day beginning sometime in September 2000.

August 2000- The transmitter has apparently suffered yet another electrical hit. The transmitter still works, but has a few new quirks!

September 2000- After working OK since the electrical hit, on 9/6/00 the transmitter failed to respond to power up. Our technicians have it working again, but a final solution has yet to be applied. Stay tuned for more info! After spending two days troubleshooting the transmitter, our team of crack radio engineers isolated the problem and ordered parts. We should be back to normal by the end of the school day, 9/11/00.

With the repair of the transmitter, we accelerated the process to expand the broadcast day, but ran into a major software snafu on October 4. We must take care of this problem before we can resume our expanded broadcast hours.

The snafu was quickly fixed (software problem), and JEFF 92 resumed their expanded broadcast day on October 16, 2000--staying on the air from 7AM until 11PM Monday through Friday.

24 hours a day/7 days a week broadcasting officially began on Monday, January 8, 2001

February 7, 2001. WJEF celebrates 29 years of student-run radio at Jefferson High School

In March of 2001, the Advanced Radio-TV course title was changed to Broadcast Media, and the Radio-TV I course name changed to Mass Media.  These changes  are a result of the state department of instruction standardization of secondary course titles all over the state.

January 8, 2002- The station marks one year of 24 hour a day, 7 days a week broadcasting

February 4-8, 2002- The station celebrates 30 years on the air

August 2002- In addition to all home football games, JEFF 92 begins broadcasting ALL away games.  In addition, all home and away boy's and girl's basketball games will be broadcast.

September 10, 2002- Radio-TV Center dedication ceremony renaming the Radio-TV Center  The William S. Fraser Radio-TV Center

November 2002- New production/automation computer purchased to replaced failed unit. Thanks to the Digital Jukebox 2-machine backup system, automation continues using only one machine.

RECENT TIMELINE

January 8, 2003- JEFF 92 marks 2 full years of 24/7 broadcasting

February 7, 2003- WJEF is 31 years old!

May 2003- New computer purchased as replacement for current on-air automation computer

June 2003- A new ON- AIR automation computer has replaced the older unit that has been in service for almost 3 years. In addition to more RAM and a faster processor, the new machine has a much larger hard drive which will allow us to add more music to our automation rotation. The old automation computer still works and will be close at hand to give us backup help if needed.

January 2004- 3 years of 24/7 broadcasting

February 2004- WJEF celebrates 32 years on the air.

May 2004- WJEF founder William Fraser passes away.

September 2004- WJEF's license is renewed.

September 2004- All Broncho sporting events become available on the Internet, both as live broadcasts/webcasts, and in archive form for school year 2004-2005. (later replaced by 24/7 streaming-see below)

December 2004- After 32 years of service, WJEF's FM antenna atop the 100 foot tower behind the school is replaced with a brand new antenna.

January 2005- 4 years of 24/7 broadcasting

February 2005- WJEF celebrates 33 years on the air.

April 2005- WJEF begins webcasting 24/7 thanks to the work of senior Vince PeGan and his Honors English Project. LISTEN NOW

May 2005- The first $500 William S. Fraser scholarship is given to senior Vince PeGan.

July 2005- Production automation computer crashes and doesn't recover. Digital Jukebox software still functions on the now stand alone on-air computer. This will get us through the summer. Our IT folks are getting 2 new computers ready for us to run the Windows XP version of the software. We hope to switch over sometime in late August or September 2005.

August 2005- Broadcast Media course title changes to Mass Media II-VI (Advanced Radio-TV) to meet state requirements. Mass Media I will also be known as (Intro to Radio-TV)

December 2005- We are still working on transfering music to the new automation computers which arrived much latet than originally planned. We hope to have the new machines up and running sometime during the spring semester.

January 2006- Our new automation computers/software go online as we make the switch to the new version of Digital Juke Box. It's a much more intuitive program than before, and has lots of cool bells and whistles.

January 2006- Jan. 8th officially marks 5 years of 24/7 broadcasting on WJEF.

February 7, 2006- WJEF celebrates 34 years of broadcasting.

April 2006- WJEF celebrates 1 year of 24/7 webcasting. LISTEN NOW

January 8, 2007 marks 6 years of 24/7 broadcasting on WJEF

Summer 2007- New computers are added to the newsroom for newswriting and a mini audio lab (3 computers) is added to the audo production room.

Fall 2007- Work begins to replace the webcasting computer, and both automation computers. Faster processors and better hardware will make our on-air sound great!