WPOK was a daytime-only

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station in

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in the late 20th century. Owned by Collins Miller and Lane Lindstrom, it went on the air on August 1, 1966. In 1975 it was running a

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format, simulcast on its FM sister station 103.1 WPOK-FM. The FM changed its callsign to WJEZ in November 1984, and by 1989 AM and FM had separate formats: 1080 WPOK with

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and 103.1 WJEZ with modern

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. WPOK was silent by March 1998, last having an adult standards format. It surrendered its license on 24 March 1998 during its renewal process, and was deleted on 18 June 1998. The station's license was surrendered so that

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AM 1080 could move from

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and increase power from 250 watts to 1,900 watts. Its FM sister station, which had recently changed frequency to 93.7,

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Retrieved 2010-09-23. survived to become WTRX-FM in 2003, then

WJBC-FM WJBC-FM (93.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Pontiac, Illinois, in the Bloomington-Normal radio market. It is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a Country radio format, calling itself "93.7 Nash Icon." The transmitte ...

in 2010.

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for FCC facility ID 37822 Radio stations established in 1966 Radio stations disestablished in 1998 1966 establishments in Illinois 1998 disestablishments in Illinois Defunct radio stations in the United States POK (AM) Pontiac, Illinois

POK POK, PoK, or Pok may refer to: * Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the name used by India for the portion of Kashmir under Pakistani administration * Pantoate kinase or PoK, an enzyme * P.O.K. (''Podosfairikes Omades Kentrou''), a former coalition of foot ...

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