WKKX
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| City | Wheeling, West Virginia |
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| Broadcast area |
Wheeling, West Virginia St. Clairsville, Ohio |
| Branding | AM 1600 WKKX |
| Slogan | The Valley's Watchdog |
| Frequency | 1600 kHz |
| First air date | 1963 |
| Format | News/Talk/Sports |
| Power |
5,000 Watts daytime 33 Watts nighttime |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 72172 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°5′26.0″N 80°42′11.0″W / 40.090556°N 80.703056°W |
| Former callsigns | WOHZ |
| Affiliations |
Cleveland Browns Radio Network Fox Sports Radio |
| Owner | RCK 1 Group, LLC |
| Sister stations | WVLY |
| Webcast | WKKX Webstream |
| Website | WKKX Online |
WKKX is a News/Talk/Sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, serving Wheeling in West Virginia and St. Clairsville in Ohio. WKKX is owned and operated by RCK 1 Group, LLC.
Programming
WKKX is a locally-owned station that features local news talk. Notable hosts are John Blackmore, Howard Monroe, Steve Novotney, Sherrie McCutcheon and Bill DiFabio.
In 2009, the long-running Jamboree radio program moved from its longtime home of WWVA, where it had aired from 1933 until its cancellation in the mid-2000s, to WKKX. The Jamboree is the third longest running radio program in the US behind the Grand Ole Opry and Music and the Spoken Word.[1] The Jamboree moved to WWOV no later than 2016.
Daily programming is simulcast on both AM 1600 WKKX and AM 1370 WVLY between 6am-10am and 2pm-6pm.
WKKX is an affiliate of Yahoo Sports Radio, carrying its programming overnight.
References
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WKKX
- Radio-Locator Information on WKKX
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WKKX