We are the radio home for North Brunswick Raiders Sports, Restoration Place, Timothy Christian Tigers Basketball, the ladies of Our Turf Football, and the Jersey Basketball Association.
The King James Radio Network started in 2011 with North Brunswick Raiders Football, and has slowly but surely, grown ever since. Based on an idea by KJRN founder Korbid Thompson, the network continues to establish itself in New Jersey as a coverage outlet for high school and youth sports(with a little pro sports thrown in).
To this day, North Brunswick(NJ) Raiders Sports is our signature program(s) on KJRN, as we are the radio home for Raiders football, basketball, and baseball/softball.
Our other remaining original program since 2011 is Restoration Place, which feeds your spirit what it needs to have through the words of pastors John and Darlene Bazemore of Restoration Christian Ministries.
In the 2012-13 basketball season, we picked up coverage of the Timothy Christian Tigers boys and girls basketball programs, based in Piscataway, New Jersey. We were able to chronicle the journey of a small private school as a newcomer in the Greater Middlesex Conference, one of the premier conferences in all of New Jersey high school sports. Timothy captured GMC Gold Division titles for the girls in 2014, 2015, and 2017, and the boys in 2014 and 2017.
In 2014, we partnered with the Jersey Basketball Association to bring you live play-by-play of the best youth basketball that New Jersey has to offer. We go into our fifth season, starting in December of 2018.
Also in 2014, one of our many highlights was to make the trip to Cooperstown, New York for our first ever week-long series of games outside of New Jersey, as the North Brunswick Raiders 12U baseball team made the trip to Cooperstown Dreams Park, with KJRN in tow.
Since 2014, we have presented live play-by-play coverage of the Greater Middlesex Conference baseball(from TD Bank Ballpark, home of the Somerset Patriots) and softball championship games, with the each baseball game being decided by a single run.
Out of the Blue and Orange was a personal project to KJRN founder Korbid Thompson, as we talked New York Mets baseball every Sunday night during the baseball season from 2014-2016. Joining the show as co-host during the 2014 season was Pastor David Amendola, a youth pastor at Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in East Brunswick, New Jersey - and an avid Mets fan.
In 2016, we started doing broadcasts of selected games in the Cal Ripken Baseball district and state tournaments in New Jersey.
Also in 2016, we picked up our second affiliated show called Wednesday Night with NFL Female. Since then, the show and brand has been renamed Our Turf Football, which features NFL coverage from 32 women(one reporter for each team) with a vast knowledge of the sport, and the players involved in it. After a brief hiatus, Our Turf Football makes its return to the King James Radio Network on Tuesday, August 14.
Over the years, we have talked a number of sports celebrities on KJRN, Our most notable show for that was Crossroads(2012-2015), a show that put the spotlight on the best in sports media, and how they made it from Point A to Point B. Some of the guests from Crossroads included play-by-play announcer Kenny Albert, Joe Davis(now on Fox Sports), Branch Rickey III(president of the Pacific Coast League), Kennie Long(TYFA Radio, Friday Night Tykes), among others.
Our defunct football show, 2-Minute Drill(2011-2015) was a rapid run through each NFL weekend, with celebrity guests such as Kevin Burkhardt, among others.
Sports In the Spirit provided a different look into the happenings of the sports world, with commentary from a Biblical point of view. Also, Sports In the Spirit, featuring Dr. Dwight Allen, was KJRN’s first affiliate show, as Dr. Allen traveled the country to find Christian athletes pursuing their passion for sports, and for the Lord.
In 2014, we introduced our first ever spoken word poetry show on KJRN, titled Sawyerr Speaks, centered around 16-year old(at the time) spoken word poet, Hannah Sawyerr. The show ran until 2015, and Hannah has since graduated from Morgan State University - winning Poet Laureate in the process, thus winning a book deal for her poetry.
Our first simulcast was in 2015, with Talk Back Live, a local sports talk radio show based in Memphis, Tennessee with Bob and Josh Midgett.
We are also happy to appear at National Night Out in our home base of North Brunswick, New Jersey to celebrate KJRN’s anniversary each and every year. Our anniversary shows give us a chance to look back, but also a chance to look ahead, as we interview prominent student-athletes from North Brunswick Raiders Sports.
As we eluded to earlier, since 2014, our youth sports coverage has picked up, not only with the JBA, but we have also been fortunate enough to broadcast championship games for organizations such as the USABL for baseball, and the Junior Skyland Conference for football. We hope to continue that trend upward in the years to come.
In 2017, we instituted the King James Media Player, which you can listen to 24/7 on our website at www.jamesisking.com. The media player carries just some of the many games we have in the KJRN archives from past years(2011-present), as well as some of our past shows.
We would be remiss, if we did not thank the sponsors that have come our way, starting in 2013 with P.E.R.K. Consulting from Washington, D.C., the North Brunswick Baseball and Association, North Brunswick Pizza, Route 1 Dental, The Cal Team at ReMax Country, as well as our state playoff football sponsors for our first state playoff football broadcast under KJRN in 2017.
While we are always looking to make some tweaks to our existing programs, we also look forward to what is yet to come. Thank you to the listeners and followers of KJRN over these years. We hope to continue to bring you informative and memorable games and programs in the spirit that radio is mean to present.