WKIS
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| Broadcast area | South Florida |
| Frequency | 99.9 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | Kiss Country 99.9 |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Format | Country music |
| Subchannels | HD4: Israeli Radio |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | September 1, 1965 |
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Call sign meaning | "Kiss" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 64001 |
| Class | C0 |
| ERP | 98,400 watts |
| HAAT | 302.4 meters (992 ft) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (via Audacy) |
| Website | www |
WKIS (99.9 FM, "Kiss Country 99.9") is a commercial radio station licensed to Boca Raton, Florida, and serving South Florida. It is owned by Audacy, Inc. and airs a country music radio format. Its studios are located in Audacy's Miami office on Northeast Second Avenue.[2] The transmitter tower is off NW 210 Street in Miami Gardens, shared with WTVJ.[3]
WKIS broadcasts in the HD Radio format.[4] Its HD2 subchannel formerly carried the sports radio programming of co-owned WQAM. Its HD3 subchannel formerly carried the national sports gambling programming as "The Bet". Its HD4 subchannel carries Israeli programming.
History
[edit | edit source]WWOG
[edit | edit source]The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1965 as WWOG.[5] It was originally a non-commercial Christian radio station, owned by Homer and Carole Akers. In the 1970s, it was a beautiful music outlet, still owned by the Akers, under the corporate name WWOG, Inc.
Country music
[edit | edit source]In 1979, WWOG was bought by the Sunshine Wireless Company. The new owner changed its call sign to WKQS-FM, and switched it to easy listening as "Kiss-FM." The WWOG call letters were later transferred to a new non-commercial religious radio station at 88.1, owned by the Boca Raton Christian School.[6] (That station is now WAYF, owned by the WAY-FM Network.) The format was switched to country music in September 1981.
In 1985 Sunshine Wireless bought AM 560 WQAM.[7] WQAM had been a long-time Top 40 station but Sunshine switched it to country music. Sunshine now had an AM country station, with personality DJs, NBC News and local information, as well as WKQS, an FM country station, with less chatter and more current country hits.
In 1988, WKQS changed call letters to WKIS. Around this time, WQAM would leave the country music format, first playing oldies and then switching to all-sports.[8] This left WKIS as Miami's only country music outlet.
Ownership changes
[edit | edit source]The Beasley Broadcast Group bought both WKIS and WQAM in the late 1990s, but continued the country music and sports formats on each station.[9] The studios and offices were moved to Sheridan Street in Hollywood.
On October 2, 2014, Beasley announced that it would trade five radio stations in Philadelphia and Miami, including WKIS, to CBS Radio, in exchange for 14 stations located in Tampa, Charlotte and Philadelphia.[10] The swap was completed on December 1, 2014.[11]
On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom.[12] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17.[13][14]
References
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- ^ FCC Public Inspection File
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WKIS
- ^ https://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?latitude=25.7616798&longitude=-80.1917902 HD Radio Guide for Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1966 page B-30
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1984 page B-50
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1986 page B-61
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1995 page B-86
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2000 page D-96
- ^ CBS And Beasley Swap Philadelphia/Miami For Charlotte/Tampa from Radio Insight (October 2, 2014)
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ CBS Radio to Merge with Entercom
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
- Facility details for Facility ID 742098 (WKIS) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WKIS in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
