WJQK
WJQK (99.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Zeeland, Michigan, and serving the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. The station broadcasts a Christian Contemporary radio format and is owned by Lanser Broadcasting. It calls itself "Joy 99.3." The radio studios and offices are on 143rd Avenue in Holland. 99-3 JQK is a sponsor of the annual Unity Christian Music Festival. Lanser Broadcasting also owns WPNW. WJQK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 4,700 watts. The transmitter is on 72nd Avenue in Zeeland, near Interstate 196. History WZND Originally a country music station, the station signed on the air in 1971. Its original call letters were WZND-FM (which referred to city of license Zeeland, Michigan), until Lanser Broadcasting purchased the station and changed them to WJQK in January 1987. The studios were moved into the same Holland, Michigan building as sister station WWJQ (now WPNW) but the transmitting tower remained in Zeeland along Interstate 196 near the 96th Avenue overpass until the early 1990s when it was moved three miles east to where 72nd Avenue would cross the highway. During the 1980s and 1990s, the station (and its AM sister) promoted themselves as WJQ. JQ99 In 1997, the