WIZK

WIZK

City	Bay Springs, Mississippi
Broadcast area	Jasper County, Mississippi
Frequency	1570 kHz
Branding	K-101
Programming
Format	Country
Ownership
Owner	Steve Stringer (Sage Communications, LLC)
History
First air date	September 10, 1971 (first license granted)
Former call signs	WHII (?-1987)[1]
Technical information
Facility ID	14022
Class	D
Power	3,200 watts (day only)
Transmitter coordinates	31°57′56″N 89°18′03″W / 31.96556°N 89.30083°W / 31.96556; -89.30083
Translator(s)	W270CZ (101.9 MHz, Bay Springs)
Links
Website	k101country.com

WIZK (1570 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bay Springs, Mississippi. The station is owned by Steve Stringer, through licensee Sage Communications, LLC. It airs a country music format.^[2] The station was assigned the WIZK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987.^[1]

It is one of the few stations left in the United States that are owned by an individual rather than a corporation. WHII had a sister station, WXIY at 94.3 FM on which was a simulcast of the AM programming. In the 1970s, WHII was a daytime only station, and when WHII (AM) signed off, the sister station WXIY (FM) changed to R&B format until its signoff at midnight. In the 1980s, the WXIY dropped its callsign in favor of WHII, still a country music station, simulcasting. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, the FM station was sold to and became WKZW "KZ-94".

References[]

External links[]

• WIZK K 101 Facebook
• WIZK in the FCC AM station database
• WIZK on Radio-Locator
• WIZK in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

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