WQYK-FM

Last updated
WQYK-FM
WQYK-FM logo.png
Broadcast area Tampa, Florida
Frequency 99.5 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding99.5 QYK
Programming
Format Country
Subchannels HD2: Country "NuTune Country"
Ownership
Owner
WPBB, WJBR, WLLD, WRBQ-FM, WYUU
History
First air date
May 1958 (1958-05) (as WTCX)
Former call signs
WTCX (1958-1972)
Call sign meaning
tribute to former sister station WQIK in Jacksonville
Technical information
Facility ID 28619
Class C1
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 174 meters (571 ft)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website 995qyk.com

WQYK-FM (99.5 MHz, currently branded 99.5 QYK) is a commercial country music radio station in Tampa, Florida. It is under ownership of Beasley Broadcast Group. Its studios are in St. Petersburg (city of license) while its transmitter is east of Palm River-Clair Mel.

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History

WQYK signed on the air in May 1958 as WTCX, a 31,000-watt classical music station and the first Tampa Bay FM to introduce stereo sound. It originally broadcast from a tiny studio at the transmitter site at 5750 North Haines Road in St. Petersburg, Florida and was owned by Trans-Chord company. Today, the call sign belongs to a radio station in Wisconsin.

The call letters changed to the current WQYK-FM in 1972, and began its long running country format. [1] Infinity Broadcasting would buy the station from Lake Huron Broadcasting in January 1987. [2] Infinity would be renamed CBS Radio in December 2005.

On October 2, 2014, CBS Radio announced that it would trade all of their radio stations located in Charlotte and Tampa (including WQYK), as well as WIP in Philadelphia, to the Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for 5 stations located in Miami and Philadelphia. [3] The swap was completed on December 1, 2014. [4] Shortly after the swap, the station branding was changed from "99.5 WQYK" to "99.5 QYK".

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References

  1. ↑ WQYK AM & FM - A History. RadioYears.com.
  2. ↑ "Purchase Announcement" (PDF). 1987-01-30. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  3. ↑ CBS And Beasley Swap Philadelphia/Miami For Charlotte/Tampa from Radio Insight (October 2, 2014)
  4. ↑ Venta, Lance (December 1, 2014). "CBS Beasley Deal Closes". RadioInsight. Retrieved December 1, 2014.

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