WCKL (defunct)
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| WCKL | |
| City of license | Catskill, New York |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Mid Hudson Valley |
| Frequency | 560 kHz |
| First air date | 1970 |
| Format | [none] |
| Power | 1,000 watts day 43 watts night, DA-1 |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 63526 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Callsign meaning | W CatsKilL |
| Former callsigns | none |
| Owner | Black United Fund of New York, Inc. |
| Website | [none] |
WCKL was the call sign of an AM radio station that is no longer in operation.[1] Licensed to Catskill, New York, USA, to broadcast at 560 kHz, the station served the Hudson Valley area from Albany to Kingston. Most recently owned by Black United Fund of New York, Inc..[2] The station had sold to Clear Channel two years earlier in a $4.3 million package deal which included WCKL, WCTW, WHUC and then-WTHK (now WZCR).[3]
During the 1970's & 1980's, the station was locally programmed with an Adult Contemporary 'full-service' format, featuring long-time morning host Guy Patrick Garraghan (currently heard on another local station, WRIP). In the 1990s, it featured a satellite-delivered pop standards format, and then briefly a simulcast of local co-owned FM station WZCR. In 2003, The Black United Fund of New York purchased the license for $100,000 (with original studios and the transmitter site being retained by seller, Clear Channel Communications) with plans to air a talk format aimed at the African-American community in the Albany area. The new owners subsequently could not produce the start-up operating capital necessary to put the station on the air.[4]
The FCC denied the renewal of the license for the station on 2007-12-13, and deleted the license from its records.[5]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ WCKL Facility Record. United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ Station Information Profile. Arbitron.
- ^ "Clear Channel gets FCC nod", The Business Review. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
- ^ "New owner Black United Fund changes format of radio station", The Business Review. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
- ^ FCC Broadcast Actions 1/15/2008. FCC.
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