City of license | Bay Springs, Mississippi |
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Broadcast area | Jasper County, Mississippi |
Frequency | 1570 kHz |
Format | Country |
Power | 3,200 watts (day only) |
Class | D |
Facility ID | 14022 |
Former callsigns | WHII (?-1987)[1] |
Owner | M. Jerome Huey |
WIZK (1570 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bay Springs, Mississippi. The station is owned by M. Jerome Huey. It airs a country music format.[2] The station was assigned the WIZK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987.[1]
It is one of the few stations left in the United States that are owned by an individual rather than a corporation. WHII had a sister station, WXIY at 94.3 FM on which was a simulcast of the AM programming. In the 1970s, WHII was a daytime only station, and when WHII (AM) signed off, the sister station WXIY (FM) changed to R&B format until its signoff at midnight. In the 1980s, the WXIY dropped its callsign in favor of WHII, still a country music station, simulcasting. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, the FM station was sold to Blakeney Communications, Inc. and became WKZW "KZ-94".