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Revision as of 12:59, 26 May 2020
Frequency | 1590 kHz |
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Branding | Oldies 1590 |
Programming | |
Format | Defunct |
Ownership | |
Owner | |
WMOI, WRAM | |
History | |
First air date | 1957[2] |
Former call signs | WQUB (1957-1959)[3] |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 49515 |
Class | D |
Power | 5,000 watts day 55 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°57′43″N 90°18′30″W / 40.96194°N 90.30833°W |
WAIK (AM 1590) was a radio station licensed to Galesburg, Illinois, with studios in Monmouth, Illinois.[4] It went silent in January 2019 and its license was cancelled in June 2019.[4][5] At the time it closed, it was operating a full service format with oldies.[6]
The station signed on the air as WQUB[3] in 1957[2] as a sister station to WQUA in Moline.[7] The WQUB construction permit was issued on April 3, 1957,[3] and its first full license was granted on January 9, 1958.[3][8] It was bought by Creative Broadcasting Ltd. in 1975 and had the call sign WAIK by 1979 with a middle of the road music format.[2] WAIK broadcast Chicago White Sox Baseball, Chicago Bulls basketball, and featured programming from ABC Radio and Sporting News Radio.[9]
In October 2018, owner WPW sold WAIK's sister stations, 1330 WRAM and 97.7 WMOI, both licensed for Monmouth, to Robbins-Treat Resources, but didn't include WAIK in the sale,[6] instead taking WAIK off the air on January 14, 2019.[6] The station's license was surrendered to the Federal Communications Commission on February 5, 2019, but it was not cancelled until June 19, 2019.[5]
References
- ^ a b Wetterling, Vanessa (2015-11-24). "FCC 323: Ownership Report for Commercial Broadcast Stations (BOA-20151125ALB)". CDBS. Washington, DC: Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ^ a b c "Directory of Radio Stations in the United States and Canada". Broadcasting Yearbook 1979 (PDF). Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1979. p. C-66.
- ^ a b c d FCC history cards for WAIK. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ^ a b Loewy, Tom (January 15, 2019). "WAIK goes silent". The Register-Mail (online ed.). Galesburg, Illinois. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ^ a b Call Sign History, fcc.gov. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
- ^ a b c Venta, Lance (January 16, 2019). "WAIK Ceases Operation". RadioInsight. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ^ Heath, Rick; Stevenson, Will. No WAIK-ing Up Anymore. Galesburg's Evening News (audio). Galesburg, Illinois: 1400 WGIL. Archived from the original on 2019-01-16. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ^ "AM Query Results (Facility ID: 49515)". Washington, DC: Federal Communications Commission. 2019-04-05.
- ^ "WAIK Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- Galesburg, Illinois
- Monmouth, Illinois
- Defunct radio stations in the United States
- Radio stations established in 1957
- Radio stations in Illinois
- Radio stations disestablished in 2019
- 2019 disestablishments in Illinois
- 1957 establishments in Illinois
- Illinois radio station stubs
- Defunct mass media in Illinois