WYNK-FM
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| City of license | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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| Broadcast area | Baton Rouge metropolitan area |
| Slogan | Wink if You Love it |
| Frequency | 101.5 MHz(Also on HD Radio) 101.5 HD2: 80s-90s Country |
| Format | Country music |
| Audience share | 5.8 (Winter 2008, R&R[1]) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 457.0 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 47402 |
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| Affiliations | ABC Radio |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (Capstar TX) |
| Sister stations | KRVE, WFMF, WJBO, WPYR, WSKR |
| Website | wynk.com |
WYNK-FM is a very dominant Country music outlet licensed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Clear Channel Communications station broadcasts at 101.5 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. Many credit WYNK with insittuting the first "top forty country format" in the country.
[edit] History
WYNK-FM has been on the Country format scene since December 7, 1968 and has managed to hold off a lot of competitors ever since. Its Am sister station, WYNK AM, was originally know as WEND and began broadcasting in the 1950's. In the late '50s the call sign was changed to WYNK AM. WYNK AM experienced finincial problems in the early '60s and went off the air for a time, only to return under new ownership and great success beginning on October 31, 1962. The force behind this rise to excellence is credited to R. D. McGregor. MeGregor sold his interest in 1983 to Hicks Broadcasting.
WYNK served as the flagship station for the nationally-syndicated "Big D and Bubba" show from 1999 until 2003. The show is still broadcast on WYNK, but is now based in Nashville, TN at flagship WSIX.
Afternoon driver Scott Innes is the current voice of Scooby Doo in the cartoon series and was the voice of Scrappy Doo in the 2002 live action film.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WYNK
- Radio Locator information on WYNK
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WYNK
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