WHAK (960 AM) is a

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airing a

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format, licensed to

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. The station is owned by John Yob, through licensee Mitten News LLC, and is part of a simulcast with 1110

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1210 in

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106.3 in

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, and

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94.5 in

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History

The station began broadcasting in May 1949, and originally ran 1,000 watts, during daytime hours only.History Cards for WHAK
fcc.gov. Retrieved August 14, 2018. The station's power was increased to 5,000 watts in 1953. The station aired a MOR format in the 1970s and 1980s.
Broadcasting Yearbook 1977
',

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, 1977. p. C-108. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1984
', Broadcasting/Cablecasting, 1984. p. B-133. Retrieved August 14, 2018. By 1990, the station had begun airing a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

format.
The Broadcasting Yearbook 1990
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, 1990. p. B-162. Retrieved August 14, 2018. In 1997, the station began to simulcast 99.9

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, airing country music programming from

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. In 1999, 99.9 WHAK adopted an

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format, ending the simulcast. The station was taken silent in October 2000.WHAK AM 960 Rogers City
Michiguide.com. Retrieved August 14, 2018. In October 2001, the station returned to the air, airing a talk radio format as a full-time affiliate of the Michigan Talk Radio Network. In 2005, the station began airing a country music format, as "Thunder Country", simulcasting 100.7

WWTH WWTH (100.7 FM), Oscoda, Michigan, is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format to the Oscoda, Tawas, Alpena area of northeastern lower Michigan. The station is known as "Thunder Rock", The Sunrise Side's Classic Rock." History WWT ...

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. When WWTH adopted a

classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primar ...

format in 2012, WHAK began airing a

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 ...

format, simulcasting 99.9 WHAK-FM. By 2016, the station had adopted a

conservative talk Conservative talk radio is a talk radio format in the United States and other countries devoted to expressing conservative viewpoints of issues, as opposed to progressive talk radio. The definition of conservative talk is generally broad enough ...

format, as "Your Patriot Voice".

References

External links

WHAK's website
{{News/Talk Radio Stations in Michigan News and talk radio stations in the United States HAK Radio stations established in 1949 1949 establishments in Michigan