WCHK-FM (101.3 FM, "The Chicken 101.3") is a radio station licensed to

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. Owned by Forever Media, it broadcasts a

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format serving

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History

The station began its operations in 1990 as WXPZ. It aired a

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format under the brand The Light FM. On January 6, 2004, WXPZ changed its callsign to WNCL. Initially, it aired an

Oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...

format under the brand Cool 101.3. Years later, it shifted to

Classic Hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s ...

. On February 5, 2019, Delmarva Broadcasting was sold to Forever Media. In late-October 2019, the station began stunting with a loop of the "

Chicken Dance The "Chicken Dance", also known and recorded as Der Ententanz, Tchip Tchip, Vogerltanz, the Bird Song, the Chicken Song, the Birdie Song, the Bird Dance, Danse des Canards, the Duck Dance, El Baile de los Pajaritos, Il Ballo del Qua Qua, Check O ...

", and its ''Cool'' format and branding was moved to sister station WYUS. On November 1, 2019, the station officially flipped to

as ''The Chicken 101.3''. The branding is a nod to Delaware's poultry industry, and the station's airstaff use chicken-themed pseudonyms on-air, such as "The Rooster" and "Chickie" (in a similar manner to '' Froggy'', a country music brand used extensively by Forever Media's other country stations). The station changed its calls to WCHK-FM to match the new branding (with the WNCL calls moving to WYUS).

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* * CHK-FM Country radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1991 1991 establishments in Delaware {{Delaware-radio-station-stub