WAIK ( AM 1590) was a

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licensed to

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, with studios in Monmouth, Illinois. It went silent in January 2019 and its license was cancelled in June 2019. At the time it closed, it was operating a

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format with

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. The station signed on the air as WQUBFCC history cards for WAIK
Retrieved 2019-04-05. in 1957 as a sister station to

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in Moline. The WQUB construction permit was issued on April 3, 1957, and its first full license was granted on January 9, 1958. It was bought by Creative Broadcasting Ltd. in 1975 and had the call sign WAIK by 1979 with a

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format. WAIK broadcast Chicago White Sox Baseball, Chicago Bulls basketball, and featured programming from ABC Radio and

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. In October 2018, owner WPW sold WAIK's sister stations, 1330

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and 97.7

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, both licensed for

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, to Robbins-Treat Resources, but didn't include WAIK in the sale, instead taking WAIK off the air on January 14, 2019. The station's license was surrendered to the

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on February 5, 2019, but it was not cancelled until June 19, 2019.Call Sign History
fcc.gov. Retrieved June 29, 2019.

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External links

FCC Station Search Details: DWAIK
(Facility ID: 49515)
FCC History Cards for WAIK
(covering 1956-1981 as WQUB / WAIK) Galesburg, Illinois Monmouth, Illinois Defunct radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1957

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Radio stations disestablished in 2019 2019 disestablishments in Illinois 1957 establishments in Illinois

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