WNKR (106.7 FM) is a

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Williamstown, Kentucky Williamstown is a home-rule-class city in Grant and Pendleton counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The population was 3,925 at the 2010 census, up from 3,227 as of the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grant County. History When Gran ...

and serving the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Until July 12, 2022, it

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classic country Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades. Repertoire The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...

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with sister station 105.9

WNKN WNKN (105.9 MHz "The Oasis") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Middletown, Ohio, and serving parts of the Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas. It broadcasts a classic hits radio format and is owned by Grant County Broadcaster ...

. WNKR's

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stands for Northern Kentucky Radio. It has been owned since its inception in 1992 by Grant County Broadcasters, Inc., an independent and local broadcasting company. WNKR has an

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(ERP) of 1,800

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s. The

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is off

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in Dry Ridge, Kentucky.

History

On April 1, 1992, WNKR first

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. Originally licensed on 106.5, in 2008, WNKR completed a signal upgrade, which included moving to 106.7 FM. Programming on WNKR is a locally produced playlist of

Classic 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, old- ...

from the 1970s, 80s and 90s, hosted by local air personalities. Local and Kentucky News Network news coverage are combined with local traffic and weather to create full-service programming in AM and PM

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s. Special programming on the station consists of

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state ...

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play-by-play sports and Rick Jackson's syndicated ''Country Classics'' program Saturday nights and Sunday mornings. For listeners located outside the range of its terrestrial signal, WNKR streams all of its program content including play-by-play Wildcats sports broadcasts on the Internet. On October 2, 2017, 105.9

, licensed to

Middletown, Ohio Middletown is a city located in Butler and Warren counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio, about 35 miles (47 km) north of Cincinnati. The population as of the 2020 census was 50,987. It is part of the Cincinnati metrop ...

, was purchased by Grant County Broadcasters from

Northern Kentucky University Northern Kentucky University is a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky. It is primarily an undergraduate institution with over 14,000 students; over 12,000 are undergraduate students and nearly 2,000 are graduate students. Northern ...

. It began broadcasting as a sister station to WNKR. This returns WNKN to the classic country format that was played on the station prior to its purchase by NKU in 2011 and extends WNKR's overall broadcast reach north to the

Dayton metropolitan area The Dayton, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, also known as Greater Dayton and the Miami Valley, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of three counties in the Miami Valley region of Ohio and is anchored by the cit ...

. Both stations are branded as "Classic Country 105.9 & 106.7".WNKN Joins Classic country Simulcast With WNKR
Radioinsight - October 2, 2017 On July 12, 2022, Grant County Broadcasters broke the simulcast and flipped WNKN to classic hits, as "105.9 The Oasis".

References

External links

* NKR 1992 establishments in Kentucky {{Kentucky-radio-station-stub