WLFK

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WLFK
WLFK 95.3TheWolf logo.png
Broadcast area Canton, New York
Frequency 95.3 MHz
Branding95-3 The Wolf
Programming
Format Country music
Ownership
Owner Community Broadcasters, LLC
WATN, WBDR, WEFX, WOTT, WQTK, WSLB, WTOJ
History
First air date
December 4, 1967
Former call signs
WGIX-FM (1988–2010)
WIGS-FM (1967–1976, 1978–1988)
WLUF (1976–1978)
Former frequencies
92.7 (1967–1981)
Call sign meaning
WoLF
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 66658
Class A
ERP 6,000 watts
HAAT 100 meters (330 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 44°20′22.0″N75°23′59.2″W / 44.339444°N 75.399778°W / 44.339444; -75.399778
Links
Public license information
Website WLFK Online

WLFK (95.3 FM, "95-3 The Wolf") is a radio station licensed for 6,000 watts at Gouverneur, New York. The station also has a low-power repeater in Watertown, New York, which broadcasts with 50 watts. The audio from this station can be heard on Time Warner Cable in Watertown, New York, on channel 96. Time Warner picks up the broadcast from repeater 104.1 which is also in Watertown. Since the FM audio subcarrier for cable channel 96 can be heard on 101.75 FM, cable subscribers in the greater Watertown area can hear WLFK in a much larger area than its low powered Watertown signal can cover.

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Owned and operated by Community Broadcasters, LLC, it broadcasts a country format. The station carries a national news feed from CNN at the top of each hour. The station has a local disc jockey, Wolfman Bill, (weekdays 6-9 am), and local news courtesy of John Moore at WWTI-TV 50 (Watertown, New York). The remainder of the schedule is filled by satellite, with no local news after that.

The station broadcasts Clarkson University hockey. The announcer is Bob Ahlfeld.

Station history

WLFK signed-on for the first time on Monday evening, December 4, 1967, as WIGS-FM on 92.7 MHz. The 3,000-watt station was put on-the-air to provide coverage to areas that were unable to receive the signal of (or received interference with) the 1,000-watt WIGS (AM) 1230 (now defunct). The two stations simulcasted originally.

In the fall of 1976, the FM station changed call letters to WLUF. The callsign was changed back to WIGS-FM on December 18, 1978. [2]

According to a story printed in the Gouverneur Tribune-Press, on the evening of March 24, 1977, the three-story building at 40 Church Street, which housed the WIGS-AM-FM studios, plus the Gouverneur Savings & Loan, a law office and real estate office, was totally destroyed by fire. By 1 p.m. the following day, the station had moved temporarily to the back of the Brown and Storie building, returning to the air just five hours later. One part of the burned-out studio that owner Robert Hartshorn did not replace was the old automated machine, nicknamed "Fred", which apparently continued to work right up until it was destroyed in the fire. "Fred" was not popular with listeners, who preferred live talent, unlike the system, which used pre-recorded shows from the west coast. Work soon began on new permanent facilities for the station, with Hartshorn serving as part of the construction crew at the new site next to the transmitter on Pooler Road. Just six weeks later, the new building was nearly ready, at four times the cost of what it took to put WIGS-AM on-the-air back in 1963.

Beginning at noon on February 25, 1981, WIGS-FM began broadcasting at its current frequency of 95.3 MHz in order to make room at 92.7 MHz for WPAC (now WQTK) in Ogdensburg, New York. In later years, the simulcast ended, with the AM side going country and the FM taking on an adult contemporary format.

The station callsign changed to WGIX-FM on July 1, 1988. [2]

In February 1991, both stations suddenly left the air but returned with new owners that fall. The Wireless Works had already owned WSLB and WPAC in Ogdensburg, as well as WZOZ in Oneonta, New York. That November, WGIX and WIGS joined sister station WSLB (1400 Ogdensburg) in a new oldies-formatted trimulcast as "FSR - Full-Service Radio." An ad was placed in the Gouverneur newspaper on November 13, 1991, proclaiming "Live radio is back on WIGS and WGIX".

WIGS signed off permanently in the mid-1990s, and the two remaining stations continued a simulcast until WSLB became "Talk 1400" in the early part of this decade. WGIX became "Oldies 95.3" then "Cool 95.3."

In 2003, WGIX-FM added a 50-watt repeater in Watertown, New York, which was formerly used by Majic 103.1. [3] Then in 2008, the station added a 19-watt repeater in Lowville.

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the station switched formats to country music, re-branding itself as WLFK, "95-3 The Wolf", and changing the callsign to match.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WLFK". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. 1 2 "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  3. ↑ "Monday Afternoon Update". Northeast Radio Watch. 2009-07-26.
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