was employed as the on-site engineer, Program Director John Robertson rarely visited the studios, maintaining his Dayton, Ohio address. Robertson was a former WING-Dayton on-air personality, promoted to managing the station and its low-maintenance format. Robertson hired Doug Ritter (Doug Ritterling) as one of WJAI's first announcers. Ritter was only 16 years of age. Ritter later became a news anchor at WING-Dayton. Great Trails' purchase of WJAI was motivated by a possibility of a transmitter power increase, and access to the much larger Dayton market. The power increase was finally approved by the FCC after a prolonged legal battle with owners of two Dayton stations; the owners protested establishment of a new competing station in the Dayton market. WJAI's first "official" studios were moved to a movie theater which had been converted to an office building at the corner of Somers and North Barron streets in downtown Eaton. Country (1979-1982) The beautiful music continued under the new nickname "WJ-93" until 1979, when it switched to country music giving competition to WONE (AM) in Dayton and WBZI in Xenia (then at 95.3 FM). By this time, Kim Faris was on board doing mid-days as one of the first women DJs in the Dayton market area. She was joined by afternoon personality Ron Scott. Doug Davisson did the 7 to midnight shift after leaving WONE AM in the early 1980s. The studios would eventually move to its current location at 717 E. David Rd. in early 1986, where it would join clustermate 1410 WING AM. Adult standards (1982-1984) In the early 1980s, the syndicated Al Ham's "Music Of Your Life", a big band/ballad-themed 1940s/early 50s format was gaining a following on stations in Indianapolis, Chicago and other market areas. WJAI did its own take on the format, though they themselves furnished the music instead. The format ran from 1982 to 1984. The WJAI callsign is now used by an Air 1 repeater station owned by EMF Broadcasting at 93.9 MHz licensed to Pearl, Mississippi serving the Jackson, Mississippi area Top 40 (1984-2007) The Z-93 nickname has been used by many hit stations since the late 1970s in other radio market areas, so Great Trails gave the nickname a try while at the same time moving the Top 40 format over from WING to the newer FM. On March the 18th of 1984 at noon, Great Trails Broadcasting flipped WJAI to WGTZ, with