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WHKY (1290 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Hickory, North Carolina. The station is owned by WHKY, LLC, and broadcasts a news/talk/sports format. The radio studios and offices are on Main Avenue SE in Hickory. By day, WHKY is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for AM stations.
The station first signed on the air on February 14, 1968, as WHKY-TV, a sister station to WHKY radio (1290 AM), owned by Long Communications of Hickory. During the 1980s, WHKY-TV aired Major League Baseball games from the Cincinnati Reds; it also had a secondary affiliation with NBC, carrying some programs that were preempted by the Charlotte market's primary NBC affiliate, WPCQ-TV (channel 36 ...
Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "North Carolina", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636 – via Internet Archive "AM Stations in the U.S.: North Carolina", Radio Annual Television Year Book, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1963, OCLC 10512375 – via Internet Archive
WHKY, 1290 AM, is a radio station that features a news-talk format. WAIZ , "63 Big Ways", 630 AM, is a radio station that features music from the 1950s and 1960s. Its branding is an homage to the former "61 Big Ways" radio station (now WFNZ ) in Charlotte, North Carolina.
WHKY (AM), a radio station (1290 AM) licensed to Hickory, North Carolina, United States WHKY-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to Hickory, North Carolina, United States, now called WLKO WWJS , a television station (channel 14, virtual 14) licensed to Hickory, North Carolina, United States, which used the WHKY-TV call sign from 1968 to 2023
The station signed on the air on January 20, 1959; 65 years ago (). [4] Its original call sign was WHKY-FM, the sister station to WHKY (1290 AM). The two stations were owned by Catawba Valley Broadcasting and mostly simulcast their programming, as network affiliates of ABC Radio.
In summer 1988, for the first time in its 20 years on the air, WIXE ranked second only to WBT among AM radio stations in the Charlotte market. [ 4 ] On July 10, 2008, a truck accidentally backed into one of the guy wires of the station's nearly-190-foot-tall tower, bringing the tower down and knocking the station off the air.
Licensed to Hickory, North Carolina, United States, the station is currently owned by Positive Alternative Radio, Inc. The station uses the identifier of "Joy FM". It has a number of repeater frequencies located as far north as Kentucky.