WIJK

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For the FM radio station licensed to serve Snow Hill, Maryland, see WAMS-FM.

WIJK
City of license	Ocean City, Maryland
Frequency	1590 kHz
Translator(s)	105.1 W286BB (Ocean Pines)
First air date	1960 (as WETT)
Format	Silent
Power	1,000 watts day 230 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	41484
Transmitter coordinates	38°24′16.00″N 75°7′37.00″W / 38.4044444°N 75.1269444°W / 38.4044444; -75.1269444
Callsign meaning	W I JocK (previous format)
Former callsigns	WETT (1960-2001) WKHZ (2001-2010) WMHZ (2010-2011) WAMS (4/2011-9/2011) WQMR (2011-2012) WAMS (8/2012-11/2012)
Owner	Bayshore Media, LLC

WIJK (1590 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Ocean City, Maryland, USA. The station is currently licensed to Bayshore Media, LLC. In September 2010, the station began relaying on an FM translator, W286BB 105.1 FM, in Ocean Pines, MD. On December 23, 2010, the station changed its call letters to from WKHZ to WMHZ. On April 21, 2011, the station changed its call letters from WMHZ to WAMS.

On September 15, 2011, WAMS changed their call letters to WQMR and changed their format to talk, branded as "Hot Talk WQMR".^[1]

On August 13, 2012, WQMR changed their call letters back to WAMS, and changed their format to oldies.

On October 26, 2012 WAMS changed their format again, this time as adult hits, branded as "JACK FM".^[2] The call letters changed to WIJK on November 20, 2012.

On April 6, 2013, WIJK once again changed their format, this time to a sports talk format as an affiliate of CBS Sports Radio. They retained the WIJK call letters they switched to under the Jack FM branding, and are now known as "The Jock".

On November 18, 2013 WIJK went silent.

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Query the FCC's AM station database for WIJK

Radio-Locator Information on WIJK

v t e Radio stations in the Salisbury-Ocean City, Maryland market

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NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.475

By callsign	KEC92 W210CC WAFL WAMS-FM WAVD WBEY-FM WDIH WESM WGBG WGMD WICO WICO-FM WIJK WINX-FM WJDY WKDB WKHI WKTT WKZP WLVW WNCL WOCQ WOCM WOLC WQHQ WSBY-FM WSCL WSDL WTDK WTGM WWFG WXDE WXSU-LP WYPO WZBH

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