WIVK

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WIVK-FM

City of license	Knoxville, Tennessee
Broadcast area	East Tennessee
Branding	107.7 WIVK
Slogan	Today's Best Music and the All-Time Country Legends
Frequency	107.7 (MHz)
Format	Country
ERP	91,000 watts
Class	C
Callsign meaning	former sister station of WIVK-AM 850 (We're the Independent Voice of Knoxville)
Affiliations	University of Tennessee
Owner	Citadel Broadcasting Company
Website	wivk.com

WIVK-FM is a FM radio station broadcasting at 107.7 MHz near Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The station is owned by Citadel Broadcasting.

WIVK is an FCC-Licensed Class C FM radio station serving the valleys and mountains of eastern Tennessee. WIVK provides country music, award winning news, and University of Tennessee sports from its studio in west Knoxville, TN.

WIVK operates a 91,000 watt transmitter located on Bays Mountain in Pigeon Forge, TN. The signal can be received in parts of eastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, southeastern Kentucky, and northern Georgia.

Commonly know as "WIVK {weh-vik} The Frog Station," WIVK has received numerous awards from the Country Music Association as well as the #1 rated station by Arbitron in not only the Knoxville Media Market, but the entire nation, securing over a 25 share in the latest books.

[edit] History

WIVK-FM signed on the air on December 16, 1965 as a simulcast of WIVK-AM 850's country music format. The station, for several years, aired a morning show hosted by Claude "The Cat" Tomlinson.

Also, WIVK aired the afternoon show hosted by Bob Thomas which was the best afternoon show in the USA. Bob Thomas worked at WIVK-AM/FM from 1976 through 1996.

WIVK-FM lost the simulcast of AM 850 when they switched to an AC format heard on WHIG-AM 850. Many of the people were not happy with the AC format on WHIG-AM so the AC format on WHIG-AM 850 was short-lived when WHIG-AM 850 changed calls back to WIVK-AM and the WIVK-AM simulcast on 107.7 was back.

On September 1, 1988, WIVK-AM 850's signal was sold to the University of Tennessee and became a news/talk station as WUTK-AM 850. WIVK-AM moved to 990 on the same day and the simulcast continued.

The AM 990/FM 107.7 simulcast lasted almost 9 years when AM 990 went to a news/talk format as "NewsTalk 990 WNOX" and later "NewsTalk 99". WIVK-FM 107.7 continues the country music format since they signed on back in 1965.

WIVK has been the number one station in Arbitron's radio ratings for the Knoxville market in every single survey since the market was first surveyed in 1970, with the exception of the April/May 1971 survey period, in which WNOX 990, a Top 40 station, was number one. No other radio station in America has been number one as long as WIVK has.

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Knoxville FM radio stations (Arbitron #71)

By frequency: 87.7¹ | 88.3 | 89.1 | 89.9 | 90.3 | 91.1 | 91.9 | 93.1 | 94.3 | 95.3 | 95.7 | 96.3 | 97.5 | 98.7 | 99.1 | 99.3 | 100.3 | 101.1 | 102.1 | 103.5 | 104.5 | 105.3 | 106.7 | 107.7