WKQK
Radio station in Melbourne Beach, United States
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WKQK (1300 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Melbourne Beach. The station is owned by First Baptist Church of Melbourne, through licensee First Baptist Church, Inc.
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Broadcast area | Space Coast, Florida |
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| Frequency | 1300 kHz |
| Branding | Radio 1300 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Full service adult contemporary |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WCIF | |
| History | |
First air date | June 22, 1959 |
Former call signs |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | B |
| Power | |
Transmitter coordinates | 28°03′27.00″N 80°38′10.80″W |
| Translator | 104.5 MHz W283DJ (Cocoa) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | radio1300 |
Until 2020, WKQK featured a full service adult contemporary radio format. It was unique in that it featured music only from local artists. The station also aired frequent local news, community announcements, marine weather forecasts, airport arrival and departure info and high school sports. As of 2020, the station is fully automated, with all announcements pre-recorded. The studios, offices and transmitter were off Pluckebaum Road in Cocoa, Florida.[2] Now the station is operating under a new Licence location approved by the FCC. It is operating at lower power than before. The transmitter site is in central Melbourne. The array at Cocoa West has been replaced by a 25.9M monopole.
History
The station first signed on the air on June 22, 1959, as WRKT.[3] Because the station was near Cape Canaveral, those call letters stood for "Rocket". On May 8, 1962, an FM station was added, with the call letters WRKT-FM (today WTKS-FM).
