WHKY (AM)
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Branding | WHKY TalkRadio |
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Programming | |
Format | News/talk/sports |
Affiliations | Premiere Networks Westwood One Salem Radio Network Fox News Radio North Carolina News Network Fox Sports Radio Motor Racing Network Performance Racing Network |
Ownership | |
Owner | WHKY, LLC |
History | |
First air date | June 10, 1940 |
Call sign meaning | Hickory |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 65918 |
Class | B |
ERP | 50,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
Translator(s) | 102.3 W272DU (Hickory) |
Repeater(s) | WHKY-TV SAP audio channel |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | whky.com |
WHKY (1290
By day, WHKY is powered at 50,000
Programming
WHKY begins each weekday with a two-hour talk and information show, "First Talk," hosted by Hal Row. The rest of the weekday schedule comes mostly from
WHKY is also affiliated with Motor Racing Network, Performance Racing Network and the Indy Radio Network providing NASCAR racing coverage, as well as select Indy Car Series events when in season. Also, on Fridays when in season, WHKY airs Hickory High School football and girls and boys varsity basketball.
Weekdays, WHKY has local news at 15 and 45 past the hour from 6:45 to 8:45am, 12 noon, 3 and 5pm. Local sports is provided at 7:45 and 8:45am and 3 and 5pm. News at the top of each hour is provided by Fox News Radio. WHKY is also affiliated with the North Carolina News Network.
Until 2023, the station was co-owned with WHKY-TV (channel 14, now religious station WWJS). WHKY radio is simulcast via that station's second audio program, effectively bringing its reach across the Charlotte metro through that simulcast.
History
On June 10, 1940, the station first
Tom Long, Ed Long's son, supervised the station's daytime signal boost from 5,000 to 50,000 watts in 2003, as well as the construction of a new building. Jeff Long, representing the third generation of Longs, was station manager.[3]
In 1987, WHKY ended its music programming and went with an all talk format. WHKY aired Paul Harvey's News and Comment segments prior to his death in 2009.[4]
WHKY was a charter station of The Rush Limbaugh Show and aired the show through his death until Premiere Networks debuted The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show four months after his passing.[5]
References
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WHKY-AM
- ^ Laura A. W. Phillips and Jerry L. Cross (June 1983). "Elliott-Carnegie Library" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ^ Mark Washburn, "After 61 Years, Station Thriving - In a Corporate World, Hickory's WHKY Radio Is Still Family-Owned," The Charlotte Observer, August 16, 2003.
- ^ "About Us".
- ^ "WHKY Radio Turns 81 Today - WHKY". www.whky.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-10.
External links
- WHKY in the FCC AM station database
- WHKY in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for WHKY