WQYK-FM (99.5
MHz, currently branded 99.5 QYK) is a commercial
country music radio station in
Tampa, Florida. It is under ownership of
Beasley Broadcast Group. Its studios are in
St. Petersburg (city of license) while its transmitter is east of
Palm River-Clair Mel.
History
It signed on the air in May 1958 as WTCX. WTCX was a 31,000-watt
classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...
station and the first
Tampa Bay FM to introduce stereo sound. It originally broadcast from a tiny studio at the transmitter site at 5750 North Haines Road in
St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the second-largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, after Tampa. It is the ...
and was owned by Trans-Chord company. Today, the call sign belongs to a radio station in
Wisconsin.
The call letters changed to the current WQYK-FM in 1972, and began its long running country format.
Infinity Broadcasting would buy the station from Lake Huron Broadcasting in January 1987.
[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1980s/1987/RR-1987-01-30.pdf ] Infinity would be renamed
CBS Radio
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in December 2005.
On October 2, 2014,
CBS Radio
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announced that it would trade all of their radio stations located in
Charlotte and Tampa (including WQYK), as well as
WIP
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in
Philadelphia, to the
Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for 5 stations located in
Miami and Philadelphia.
[CBS And Beasley Swap Philadelphia/Miami For Charlotte/Tampa]
from Radio Insight (October 2, 2014) The swap was completed on December 1, 2014.
Shortly after the swap, the station branding was changed from "99.5 WQYK" to "99.5 QYK".
References
External links
WQYK Website*
QYK-FM
Country radio stations in the United States
QYK-FM
1958 establishments in Florida
Radio stations established in 1958
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