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WKTI also airs ESPN Radio's coverage of MLB, the NBA, the NFL, and NCAA football, and is the flagship station for the Marquette University Golden Eagles college football and basketball teams. As of September 2023, WKTI was ranked 19th in the Milwaukee-Racine Market in the Nielsen Radio ratings.
In 2018, Milwaukee got two FM sports stations. On November 1, WKTI (94.5 FM), owned by Good Karma Brands, became "ESPN 94.5 Milwaukee." Four weeks later on November 27, iHeart flipped WRNW from Top 40 to sports radio as 97.3 The Game. All of WOKY's local programming was moved to 97.3 FM, with 920 AM mostly carrying Fox Sports Radio's daily ...
WKTY began broadcasting May 27, 1948, on 580 kHz with 1 KW power (full-time). It was owned by the La Crosse Broadcasting Company and was a Mutual affiliate. [3] During the 1980s, the station was full service, switching back and forth between playing country music and adult contemporary.
Backtrax USA is a weekly two-hour radio program hosted by former WHTZ (Z100) disc jockey Kid Kelly that premiered in 1992. [1] The original show highlights hit music from the 1980s. Since 2003, Backtrax USA has also offered a 1990s version of the show featuring hits from that decade. Affiliate stations may air either version or both.
In January 2009, Dees and the Weekly Top 40 returned to ABC Radio, which has since been acquired by Citadel Broadcasting, with ABC Radio's programming division renamed as Citadel Media. [3] Reruns of the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 from the 1980s began airing on the TKO Radio Network in 2010 after a trial run on WQMA in Marks, Mississippi. A few ...
The purchase of WNEU by Radio Equity Partners was announced in July 1994 and it was believed the station would become the "rocking country cousin" to WTQR. [6] On September 22, 1994, the station became WXRA "94.5 the Rock Alternative", playing modern rock [ 7 ] [ 8 ] from the 80s and 90s for listeners 18 to 34. [ 6 ]
The classification of urban-formatted radio stations range from the radio formats of rhythmic contemporary hit radio to Urban contemporary gospel. Though urban contemporary was the originator of the format, there have come to be many variations of the format in the last 30 years.
Throughout the 1980s, WQYX was an affiliate of Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and Retro Pop Reunion. In October 2016, First Media reached a deal to sell its remaining stations in West Central Pennsylvania to Seven Mountains Media for $4.5 million. At this point, WQYX was broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format branded as 93.1 WQYX.