WSKY-FM

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WSKY-FM
WSKY-FM logo.png
Broadcast area Gainesville-Ocala, Florida
Frequency 97.3 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingNewstalk 97.3 The Sky
Programming
Language(s) English
Format Talk radio
Subchannels HD2: Regional Mexican
Affiliations ABC News Radio
Fox News Radio
Compass Media Networks
Premiere Networks
Radio America
Westwood One
Ownership
Owner
WKTK
History
First air date
September 7, 1985;37 years ago (1985-09-07)
Former call signs
WGLV (1985–87)
WGGG-FM (1987–89)
WLCL (1989–93)
WRRX (1993–98)
Call sign meaning
The Big SKY [1]
Technical information
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 23352
Class C2
ERP 50,000  watts
HAAT 150 meters (490 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 29°32′9.00″N82°19′18.00″W / 29.5358333°N 82.3216667°W / 29.5358333; -82.3216667
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live (via  Audacy)
Listen live (HD2)
Website www.audacy.com/thesky973
tufiestaradio.com (HD2)

WSKY-FM (97.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Micanopy, Florida, and serving the Gainesville-Ocala radio market. The station airs a talk radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. [2] [3]

Contents

WSKY carries a local weekday morning talk and information show, followed by nationally syndicated talk programs. They include Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal . Weekends feature shows on money, health, real estate, law, gardening, horses, computers and cigars, some of which are paid brokered programming. Hosts include Kim Komando, Bill Handel, Clark Howard and Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio.

History

On September 7, 1985, the station first signed on at 97.7 FM as WGLV, an adult contemporary music station known as "Gainesville's Love 98." WGLV was co-owned with WGGG, a longtime legendary Top 40 station in the market, and tried to take advantage of the connection by hiring legendary WGGG personality "Boomer" Hough as its first morning show host. However, Hough's show lasted only a few months. WGLV tried to further bank on the legendary WGGG call sign in 1987 by adopting a 1970s-based oldies format as WGGG-FM and declaring "The Legend is Back!" [4] This, too, proved short-lived. After WGGG-AM-FM were sold in 1989, WGGG-FM became WLCL, a soft AC station branded as "Clear FM".

From 1993 until the debut of WSKY in 1998 (except for a brief period during which it programmed oldies as WGGO "Go 97.7"), the station was known as WRRX "97-X". At that time, the station featured an adult album alternative format which was partially programmed via satellite from an outside provider, and locally in certain dayparts, featuring an eclectic variety of music. 97-X had a small yet loyal following in the local Gainesville music scene.

97-X was sold to Entercom in March 1998, for a price tag of $2.8 million. [5] Entercom switched the call letters to WSKY-FM and changed frequencies to 97.3 MHz on June 7, 1998, boosting the signal to 13,500 watts from its previous 2,600 watts. The antenna height was nearly doubled to 948 feet from its previous 495-foot tower. This gave WSKY better coverage of the Gainesville-Ocala radio market, putting a high-quality signal over both cities. The station also switched to its current talk radio format. WSKY has since boosted its power to 50,000 watts effective radiated power (ERP) but reduced its height above average terrain (HAAT) to 492 feet.

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References

  1. ↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
  2. ↑ "WSKY-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "WSKY-FM Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1987 page B-62
  5. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1999 page D-95
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