WKOK

The United States Department of Commerce granted Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, a license for a radio station on November 6, 1925 (per FCC History Cards).^[5] The original call sign, randomly issued from a sequential list, was WJBU. It originally transmitted on 1420 kHz with 100 watts.

The station was reassigned to 1400 kHz on September 3, 1927. It moved again, this time to 1210 kHz on December 28, 1928.^[6] By the 1930s, the university decided to divest of the station and offer it to a commercial broadcaster.

On May 12, 1933, the station's license was voluntarily reassigned to Charles S. Blue. The station was moved to Sunbury, Pennsylvania, with studios at 1150 West Front Street.^[7] Following the move, the station's call sign was changed to WKOK on July 27, 1933. The station's license was then voluntarily reassigned to Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation on April 13, 1934. WKOK occasionally shared its frequency with WBAX in Wilkes-Barre. When one was on the air, the other had to be silent. This shared time arrangement lasted from October 27, 1936, until June 7, 1939.^[6]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Sunbury Broadcasting a new license for the station on October 1, 1940, with a power increase to 250 watts. WKOK was reassigned from 1210 kHz to 1240 kHz on March 29, 1941.^[6] On that day, 795 US radio stations changed frequency as the result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), signed in Havana with representatives from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

In 1948, WKOK added an FM sister station, WKOK-FM, originally at 100.3 MHz.^[8] WKOK-AM-FM mostly simulcast their programming until the late 1960s. Today, that station is WQKX at 94.1 MHz.

On October 25, 1961, the FCC granted Sunbury Broadcasting a construction permit for the station to change the station's frequency to 1070 kHz. Along with the new dial position, the power would increase to 10,000 watts daytime, 1,000 watts nighttime using directional antennas with different patterns for both day and night ("DA-2"). The FCC granted a new license with these changes effective October 1, 1963.

The FCC subsequently granted permission on June 10, 1970, for the station to switch to a non-directional antenna during daytime hours while continuing to use a directional antenna at night ("DA-N"). The station's day and night powers were not changed. The FCC granted a new license with these facilities on November 10, 1970.^[6]

• Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID 63889 (WKOK) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WKOK in Nielsen Audio's AM station database