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Broadcast area | Lima, Ohio |
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Frequency | 93.9 MHz |
Branding | 93.9 Kiss FM |
Programming | |
Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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WIMA, WIMT, WMLX, WZRX-FM | |
History | |
First air date | April 1, 2003 |
Technical information [1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 40714 |
Class | B1 |
ERP | 14,000 watts |
HAAT | 133 meters (436 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°57′24″N84°07′56″W / 40.95667°N 84.13222°W |
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Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen live (via iHeartRadio) |
Website | kisslima.iheart.com |
WBKS (93.9 FM, "93.9 Kiss FM"), owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. , is a radio station serving Lima, Ohio with a Top 40 (CHR) format. Its studios are located with WIMA, WIMT-FM, WZRX-FM, and WMLX-FM on West Market Street in Lima. Its transmitter is located between Kalida and Columbus Grove, its city of license, in southern Putnam County.
The station was formerly known as WLWD, "Wild 93-9," until April 1, 2010. WLWD was originally a Rhythmic Contemporary station but had begun adding more mainstream pop and rock hits to its rotation in June 2009. With the change to 93-9 Kiss FM, the station has now fully transitioned to Mainstream Top 40/CHR, and now has the hit-music format to itself in Lima with former competitor station WZOQ/WWSR's change to a sports format and move from its original 92.1 frequency (now WFGF) to 93.1.
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The WLWD calls were previously used from 1949 to 1976 by Channel 2 in Dayton, Ohio (owned by Crosley Communications, owners of the "WLW" network of stations; it is now WDTN-TV.) TV talk show host Phil Donahue, a maverick and trail blazer of TV talk shows, got his start there. The WLWD call letters were familiar in the Lima area since the WDTN signal reaches various portions of the Lima market either over the air or through cable carriage.
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