| City of license | Moyock, North Carolina |
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| Broadcast area | Norfolk/Virginia Beach |
| Branding | "92.1 Kiss FM" |
| Slogan | "The Best R&B and Old School" |
| Frequency |
92.1 HD-2 for Country |
| Format | Urban adult contemporary |
| ERP | 14,500 watts |
| HAAT | 131 meters |
| Class | C3 |
| Facility ID | 70345 |
| Former callsigns | WOFM (1990) WTZR (1990-1991) WMYK (1991-1997) WSVV (1997-2001) WBHH (2001-2004) WCDG (2004-2010)[1] |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications |
| Sister stations | WVMA, WMOV-FM, WOWI |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kissfmvirginia.com |
WKSA, known on air as 92.1 Kiss FM, is a radio station licensed to Moyock, North Carolina, with its tower in middle Chesapeake, Virginia, and its office in Norfolk, Virginia. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications. The station airs an Urban adult contemporary format that the Hampton Roads market.
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Originally signing on in the 1970s, it was WJLY, which played a bizarre array of rock, country, jazz, big band, classical, R&B, and other more obscure music genres. The station went dark around 1978 due to money problems. It signed back on as a Top 40 station in 1980 and was called WQZQ. A few years later, it changed to a country format. In the mid 80s, the station went to an adult contemporary format as WOFM, switching a few years later to AAA as "The Border" and attracting a small "cult" audience in Norfolk. Plagued with a bad signal the station tried getting an upgrade to 25 thousand watts, but was unable to. This caused WOFM in 1990 to flip to heavy metal with the now-defunct "Z Rock" syndicated satellite delivered format as WZTR.
A few years later, the station was sold to Willis Broadcasting who changed the calls to WMYK and instituted a hard-core rap & hip hop format as 92.1 Kiss. Clear Channel later purchased the station and tried "Dance Top 40" which failed in the ratings. Then, Clear Channel did a Jammin Oldies simulcast with sister station WSVY 107.7 as "Vibe 107.7 and 92.1". Later, the station went to urban AC with the same name before returning to the previous rap & hip hop format as WBHH, "92.1 The Beat". On March 1, 2003, the station dropped its hip hop format and started simulcasting an soft A/C format with former smooth jazz sister station WJCD; the two stations together were known as Lite FM.
In August 2005, to fill the hole left when crosstown oldies WFOG switched to adult contemporary, WCDG broke away from the simulcast and became Oldies formatted "Cool 92.1". The first song played was local legend Bill Deal's biggest hit, "What Kind OF Fool Do You Think I Am".
On October 11, 2010, WCDG and WJCD became simulcasts again when WKUS moved from 105.3 to 107.7 and the 105.3 frequency became "Magic 105.3" with a AC-themed Classic Hits format. The move meant the end for WCDG's Oldies format.[2] On March 31, 2011, WKUS broke away from its simulcast of WKSA to become Rhythmic Hot AC WMOV (MOViN' 107.7) after that station received a signal upgrade to cover the area.
When it was "Cool 92.1," the station used voice-tracked talent imported from other stations in the Clear Channel chain, plus Mike Harvey, and Cleveland based "Truckin" Tom Kent's syndicated night show in the evenings. The voice-tracked DJs were Gary Jeff Walker, and Travis Dylan. Mike Harvey airs a nightly program "The Mike Harvey Show" from 7-Midnight and Saturday Nights "Super Gold". Tom Kent does a syndicated show from 2-7pm on Weekdays. The Syndicated shows are more classic hits, whereas the Voice-Tracked shows are "true oldies". The station later installed a new morning show featuring Bill Bevins and Shelly Perkins who are also The Morning Team at Clear Channel's sister station in Richmond, WTVR-FM/Lite 98. It was also the Hampton Roads affiliate for North Carolina Tar Heels football and basketball.
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