WXYK (105.9

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, "105.9 The Monkey") is a commercial FM

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licensed to Pascagoula, Mississippi and serving the Biloxi - Gulfport - Pascagoula radio market. The station has a Top 40/CHR

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and is owned by Telesouth Communications Inc. The

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s and offices are on Three Rivers Road in Gulfport. WXYK carries ''

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'' and ''

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with

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'', syndicated from

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. WXYK has an

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(ERP) of 25,000

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s from its

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off Pine Hills Road in Ocean Springs.

History

WGUD/Kiss-FM/WXRG

The station started as a

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outlet, using the

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WGUD, then WGUD-FM. It flipped to a

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hits outlet as WXYK, "105.9 KISS FM", until 1997 when 105.9 FM, 96.7 FM and 107.1 FM switched frequencies. KISS FM went to the 107.1 FM frequency, with

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moving from the 96.7 FM frequency to the 105.9 FM frequency as WXRG.

Go-FM/Classic Rock 105.9/Bob 105-9

On September 21, 2006, after a day of stunting with a loop of

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's '' Go Your Own Way'', WXRG dropped

for

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as ''105.9 GO-FM'' and adopting the WHGO call letters. In 2009, the station gradually leaned back to a true classic rock format and rebranded as ''Classic Rock 105.9''. On October 4, 2010, WHGO began stunting with a Microsoft Sam voice reciting a countdown of the days, hours, minutes, and seconds while interspersing a random movie quote or song lyric a few times each minute. On October 8, at 3 p.m., WHGO flipped to adult hits, branded as ''Bob 105.9'' with a new call sign of WQBB. The station was programmed by local radio veteran "Weerd Wayne" Watkins. In July 2014, station owner Triad Broadcasting was sold to Alpha Media, along with

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s WCPR,

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, WXYK and

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105.9 The Monkey

In December 2018, Alpha Media announced it would be selling its Gulf Coast cluster to local Mississippi broadcast company Telesouth Communications Inc., which already owned WOSM, a

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station in the Biloxi market. The FCC approved the sale on February 12, 2019, and closed on March 1, 2019. On March 1, at midnight, after playing ''

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'' by

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, WQBB dropped the adult hits format and assumed the programming of " 107-1 The Monkey", which was spun off to another local company, Port Broadcasting, as part of the sale to Telesouth. The first song on "105.9 The Monkey" was '' 7 Rings'' by

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. This move returned the CHR format and WXYK call letters to the frequency after a 22-year absence.The Monkey Displaces Bob in Biloxi
Radioinsight - February 28, 2019

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* {{coord, 30.405, N, 88.791, W, type:landmark_region:US_source:FCC, display=title XYK (FM) Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1976 1976 establishments in Mississippi